A Consideration of Prayer From the Standpoint of Social Psychology ..
A Consideration of Prayer From the Standpoint of Social Psychology ..
Strong, Anna Louise, 1885-1970
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m INTERMEDIATE TYPES. THE GROWTH OF DISCRIMINATION We have said that prayer is a social relation be- tween two selves arising simultaneously in con- sciousness, having for its end the establishment of a wider, more complete self. This definition has not seemed to hold entirely in the case of the immature consciousness, because, with more mature discrim- ination, we no longer identify our '* selves" with the type of things there prayed for. There has been a progressive limitation of the field to... which the imaginative social process may apply. Yet, even for the adult consciousness, the line between the personal and the impersonal is a shadowy one. So, Digitized by VjOOQIC 46 PSYCHOLOGY OP PBAYEB although as we saw at the close of the last section, prayer is gradually confined, as the worshipper be- comes more discriminating, to the establishment of a completer self, yet there are several types of prayer more or less widely employed at the present day, which lie on the border between the primitive prayers and the completely social prayers.
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