The Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality

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Arthur Holder
John Wiley & Sons, Apr 27, 2011 - Religion - 592 pages
The Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality is a comprehensive single-volume introduction to Christian spirituality, and represents the most significant recent developments in the field.
  • Offers a thoroughly interdisciplinary, broadly ecumenical, and representative overview of the most significant recent developments in the field
  • Comprises essays combining rigorous academic scholarship with accessible and elegant writing
  • Reflects an understanding of the field as the study of the lived experience of Christian faith and discipleship
  • Provides material on biblical, historical, and theological foundations, along with treatment of contemporary issues
 

Selected pages

Contents

Title Page
Defining Christian Spirituality
An Introduction to the Essays
References
The Old Testament in Christian Spirituality
Modernity and Early Postmodernity Seventeenth
The New Testament in Christian Spirituality
Christian Spirituality
Christian Spirituality and Theological
Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Studies of Spirituality
Personality Sciences
Spirituality
Spirituality
References
Aesthetics

References
Christian Spirituality in Byzantium and
15001700
European Reformations of Christian
Christian Spirituality in Europe and North
Christian Spirituality in Africa Asia Latin
Trinitarian Perspectives on Christian
Creation
Christology in Christian Spirituality
The Holy Spirit in Christian Spirituality
Christian Spirituality and the Theology
Theology as Mystagogy
The Christian in Christian Spirituality
Sacramentality and Christian Spirituality
Feminist Studies
Ritual Studies
Christian Spirituality
Theology of Religions
Experience
Naturalistic Hypotheses
Mysticism
Interpretation
Nature
Practice
Liberation
Interfaith Encounter
Index

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About the author (2011)

Arthur Holder is Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Christian Spirituality at Graduate Theological Union. A priest of the Episcopal Church, he is the co-translator of Bede: A Biblical Miscellany (1999) and the translator of Bede: On the Tabernacle (1994). He is currently Co-chair of the Christian Spirituality Group of the American Academy of Religion, and serves on the Governing Board of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality and the Editorial Board of the Society’s journal Spiritus.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
EditorArthur Holder
Editionreprint
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN1444393812, 9781444393811
Length592 pages
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