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SCM Studyguide: Christian Spirituality

SCM Studyguide: Christian Spirituality

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£19.99

Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 9780334040934
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 31/07/2008
Width: 17.2 cm
Height: 23.4 cm

The SCM Studyguide: Christian Spirituality is designed as a lucid and comprehensive introduction to spirituality for students of all religious backgrounds, especially those coming to the subject for the first time.

Part One looks at the Christian spiritual tradition through an encyclopaedic study of a variety of spiritual writers. These are treated chronologically: the Bible, the patristic period, the time when monasticism triumphed, the Middle Ages, the Reformation, and the post-Enlightenment period.

Part Two, which could also be used at a more advanced level, explores Christian spirituality through a range of interdisciplinary themes. Successive chapters look at its relation to personal experience, science, theology, psychology, sexual embodiment, and ethics. The final chapter raises urgent contemporary issues: the relation of Christian spirituality to that of other faiths, and to 'postmodern' culture in general.

Each chapter concludes with questions for discussion and select further reading, and an extensive bibliography for each chapter is also provided.

 

Introduction v Part 1 History 1 Appearance and Abandonment: Biblical Spirituality 4 2 Struggle and Synthesis: Patristic Spirituality 17 3 Monastery and Mystery: Spirituality through the ‘Dark Ages’ 34 4 Hierarchy and Heresy: Medieval Spirituality 51 5 Foundations for Faith: Reformation Spirituality 69 6 Revival or Retreat? Spirituality after the Enlightenment 88 Part 2 Themes and Connections 7 Encounter or Escapism? Spirituality and Experience 112 8 Contemplative Questioning? Spirituality and Science 125 9 A Kind of Knowing? Spirituality and Theology 140 10 Temple or Temptation? Spirituality and the Body 153 11 Serious about Soul? Spirituality and the Psyche 166 12 Training in Transformation? Spirituality and Ethics 185 13 Spiritual Space? Spirituality in a World of Difference 202 Conclusion 219 Bibliography 222 Index of Subjects and Key Names 247 Index of Biblical References 252

Ross Thompson with Gareth Williams, Gareth Williams

Ross Thompson is a freelance writer in theology and spirituality. He was a parish priest in Bristol for twenty years, and taught systematics and spirituality at St Michael's College, Llandaff and Cardiff University.

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