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Experiences that threaten to overwhelm ones emotional capacity to bear them and a sense of personal inadequacy to attain anything of substantial worth on ones own motivates the way of devotion. This way of being religious looks for a focus of devotional worship, summons to emotional reorientation, surrender and catharthis, words of pastoral guidance, promises of personal comfort and reassurance, confidence builders in providence, and persons who model true devotion-as well as rationales for devotional surrender to divine grace as a means to at-onement with ultimate reality.
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