ABSTRACT
In speaking of the moral dimension to religious faith and practice (namely, with reference to virtues and duties, and to responses to the voice of conscience), there is still something missing, which is reflected in the lives of those who are singled out as exemplars of religious living, namely, that which ‘inspires them’. That ‘something’ is captured in the idea of the ‘spiritual’. But that word is used so loosely (as reflected in Chapter 1) that there is need to define and explain its distinctiveness, especially within a religious and moral tradition such that its development should be one of the challenges for religious education (see Chapter 9).
