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Centuries of holiness : ancient spirituality refracted for a postmodern age

Print Book, English, 2005
Continuum, New York, 2005
231 pages ; 24 cm
9780826417053, 0826417051
57243196
Conversion
Sanctification
Starting out
Incarnate living
Bodies
Discernment
Restoration
The memory of God
Vision of God, reign of God
Divinization
Revelation
Living in the present
The society of the Godly
The detriment of idealization
Knowing the mind of God
Communion
Hindrances
Reality
Divine indwelling
Reading the signs
Mortification reconsidered
Worldview
Confession
Holy dying
Disappointment
Striving
Oblation
Perfection
Ghostly converse
Ennui and steps
Virtues
Union with God
Ascetical eschatology
Mary, the mother of God
Progress
Empowerment
Thorns and impediments
Anticipated joy
Self-examination
Mystic communion
Habitual prayer
Assembling the social body
Cultivation and avoidance
Baptism
Concupiscence
Pride and humility
Embracing difference
Demons and ascetic evil
Praying the bodies
Sacraments and life
Ascetic confession
Utopia
Withdrawal
The divine mystery
Charting a way
Exercises
Living in community
Spiritual direction
Sodalities
Stages
Generosity and hospitality
Penance
Renunciation and reconstruction
The body transparent
Passions
Study and curiosity
The deadly sins
Attention
Engaging the tradition
Seeing double
Sin
Playfulness
Emotional ecology
Holy energy
Holiness of resources
Temptation
Consolations
Aridity
Discerning the divine mind
Discernment of spirits
A living God
Illumination
From discourse to affection
Affective contemplation
Divine virtue
Representation
Receiving the mystery
Singularity and integration
World and self
Rest
Faith, hope, and love
Humility
Simultaneity
Contemplation
Transparency
Visions of deification
Prayer beyond words
Divine energy
Recollection, silence, and ignorance
The final restoration