Episode 5: The Where-Being of God as Transcendent, Immanent, or Indwelling and Associations with Contemplative Prayer

In this episode, Research Fellow Dr Ela Łazarewicz-Wyrzykowska - Affiliated Researcher at the Two Wings Institute in Wrocław, Poland, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in Cambridge, UK - discusses her project investigating how Catholics perceive God as transcendent, immanent, or indwelling, and associations with contemplative versus ritualized prayer. Ela developed and administered a new scale to 300 Catholics in Poland, measuring understandings of God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit's "where-being," alongside correlates like prayer types, absorption, religiousness, and demographics (including Charismatic Renewal affiliations). Key focuses include group differences - such as higher indwelling views of the Holy Spirit among Charismatics - and links to spiritual experiences.