—D. A. Carson— D. A. Carson is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. Almost two decades ago I wrote an essay titled “When Is Spirituality Spiritual? Reflections on Some Problems of Definition.”1 I would like to follow up on one aspect of that topic here. The broader framework of the discussion needs to be remembered. “Spiritual” and “spirituality” have become notoriously fuzzy words. In common usage they
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