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The SCM Studyguide to 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.
Contents
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
