Compare Saint-Laurent
His understanding of spirituality has built into it certain valuational assumptions:
- Authentic
- Humane and humanizing -- i.e., making people noble, creative, good, and effective human beings.
- Almost always something positive (yet see p. 9, 1st par. and p. 13, 1st par.)
Need spirituality be these things?
And is this not to presume a positive, valuational stand -- just not a narrow one?