spiritual conflict
Inner moral warfare
Spiritual conflict refers to an inner struggle involving one's beliefs, values, or relationship with the divine or transcendent.
It may manifest as doubt about faith, tension between religious teachings and personal desires, or a sense of being caught between good and evil forces.
In some religious traditions, spiritual conflict also describes warfare between supernatural beings—angels and demons, light and darkness—that plays out in human lives.
She experienced intense spiritual conflict after questioning the beliefs she'd held since childhood.
- faith crisisLoss of spiritual certainty
- dark night of the soulIntense period of spiritual emptiness
- secularismSeparation of faith, state
- doubtLack of firm belief
- fundamentalismStrict adherence to core tenets
inner turmoil · moral struggle · guilt · mortality · free will · conscience · transcendence · sectarianism · nihilism · proselytizing · theodicy · salvation · repentance · purpose · moral ambiguity · apostasy · religious persecution · divine justice
- Metaphysical PoetryJohn Donne, conceit, conceits, metaphysical poetry, extended metaphor
- conventabbess, cloister, habit, novice, sisterhood
- Petrarchan poetryCanzoniere, Laura, Petrarchan sonnet, Italian sonnet, octave
- Russian Devilsdemons, devils, Satan, the devil, demonic possession
spiritual conflictinner peace
Mental and emotional tranquility
peace of mind · serenity · spiritual harmony · tranquility · equanimity
spiritual conflictarmed conflict
Military combat between groups
hand-to-hand combat · conventional warfare · physical violence · military engagement · political conflict
spiritual conflictspiritual unity
Souls joined in transcendence
divine union · spiritual communion · religious harmony · mystical union · spiritual fellowship
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