ABSTRACT

Religious motivations are a specific kind of spiritual motivation that are typical of monotheistic religious traditions that explicitly recognise the existence of one God. This chapter focuses on the motivations of the human correspondence to God’s Love in a personal relationship, for those who believe in Him. In this context, the religious useful motivation is described as the human voluntary desire to return useful good to God by serving Him. Religious pleasant motivation is understood as the human voluntary desire to return the pleasant good to God by pleasing Him. Religious moral motivation is seen as the voluntary human desire to return to God the moral good by worshipping Him, and, finally, the religious spiritual motivation is understood as the voluntary desire to return the spiritual good to God by praising Him and giving Him glory.