It is also important to keep in mind that they are not meant to cover the field of religious ethics, nor even the field of commonsense generic religious ethics (so far as there is such a thing). In addition to them there may be, specific to each religious tradition, further virtues and vices or further nuances of these generic virtues and vices. It is important to keep in mind that these are virtues and vices in the practice of generic ways of being religious hence they are generic, commonsense virtues and vices of religious practice that are not specifically formulated in terms of any one religious tradition. I list as well a characteristic weakness in the competent practice of each way-the shadow side of its strength, as it werefrom which develop its characteristic vices. To what extent is it possible to identify traits of religious practice within each of the six ways of being religious that characterize that way at its best and traits that characterize that way at its worst? What follows is my attempt to answer this question, making use of the three parameters identified above: competence/incompetence, balance of finitude and infinitude, and selflessness/egoism.
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