Human Dignity: When Ethics and Spirituality Converge

Abstract

African Christian spirituality, understood as our experiential union with God, the world around us and our fellow human beings, cannot be separated from African Christian morality, understood as our active response to God’s love for us. What we consistently do reflects who we are, and who we are influences what we consistently do. Human dignity must flourish when the marriage between ethics and spirituality has taken place. Divorce from these two essential aspects of being human (ethics and spirituality) leads to double life which in turn jeopardises human flourishing.