The present research is about the divorce between theology and spirituality in western Christianity since XIIth century, which lasted till the XXth century. Starting from then, that disastrous rupture is being seriously questioned and denounced. The voices of some of the most important theologians of that century rise in defense of a new unit. However, theology today, even in the middle of the XXIst century, is still in search of integrating paradigms, meaning to say, in search of a new romance. In a first moment, we approached that reality, looking at the western theological epistemology, just as it is configured in current days. Some questions emerge from this: the challenge that post-modernity imposes and the way it claims for an amplification of the rationality concept; the need for a new paradigm in theology, one that takes seriously the questions of that cultural sensibility, which is strongly sealed by the contrast with the so called modern-rationalist sensitivity. A sensitivity that tries to overcome the divorce. Therefore, we will see a two-fold reality of the relationship between theology and spirituality, starting from two glances: one contemplating today´s reality, where our focus will be more of epistemological character, and another, starting from a historical-theological glance about that relationship. Finally, we will place the diagnosis face to face to some integrating paradigms. They will be two. The first one will come from the reformed theologian s Karl Barth. The second will come from Latin-American liberation theology.