Christian Spirituality
eBook - ePub

Christian Spirituality

The Classics

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eBook - ePub

Christian Spirituality

The Classics

About this book

Christian Spirituality: The Classics is a unique and comprehensive guide to thirty key Christian spirituality texts. Ranging from Origen and Augustine to Jonathan Edwards, Thérèse of Lisieux and Thomas Merton, it offers a view of the texts which is founded in scholarship, but which also presents them as living documents that invite- even compel -contemplative reflection and existential response.

Each chapter briefly describes the classic text's author and audience, gives a synopsis of its contents, suggests some of its influence in history, and then explores aspects of the text's meaning for readers today. Key themes include:

  • What is the meaning of life?
  • How can human beings find truth?
  • How can they discover who they really are?
  • How can they live together in peace?
  • How can they live more fully in God's presence in this world and be united with God in the world to come?

The scholars who have written these chapters are all experts on their respective topics, but they wear their learning lightly. Anyone wishing to discover the riches of Christian spirituality will find this the ideal introduction and should be able to progress to a deeper understanding of the texts themselves.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2009
eBook ISBN
9781135285401
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Christian Theology

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contributors
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Editor’s introduction
  7. 1 Origen (c.185–c.253), Commentary on the Song of Songs
  8. 2 Athanasius (c.295–373), The Life of Antony
  9. 3 Gregory of Nyssa (c.335–c.395), The Life of Moses
  10. 4 Augustine (354–430), The Confessions
  11. 5 (Pseudo) Dionysius the Areopagite (late fifth century), The Divine Names and Mystical Theology
  12. 6 Benedict of Nursia (c.480–c.547), Rule
  13. 7 Gregory the Great (c.540–604), Book of Pastoral Rule
  14. 8 Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153), On Loving God
  15. 9 Mechthild of Magdeburg (c.1210–c.1282), The Flowing Light of the Godhead
  16. 10 Bonaventure (c.1217/21–1274), The Soul’s Journey into God
  17. 11 Marguerite Porete (d.1310), The Mirror of Simple Souls
  18. 12 Gregory Palamas (1296–1359), Triads in Defense of the Holy Hesychasts
  19. 13 Julian of Norwich (c.1342–c.1416), Showings
  20. 14 Anonymous (fourteenth century), The Cloud of Unknowing
  21. 15 Catherine of Siena (1347–80), Dialogue
  22. 16 Martin Luther (1483–1546), The Freedom of a Christian
  23. 17 Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), The Spiritual Exercises
  24. 18 Teresa of Avila (1515–82), The Interior Castle
  25. 19 John of the Cross (1542–91), The Dark Night
  26. 20 Francis de Sales (1567–1622), Introduction to the Devout Life
  27. 21 George Herbert (1593–1633), The Country Parson
  28. 22 Madame Jeanne Guyon (1648–1717), A Short and Very Easy Method of Prayer
  29. 23 Jonathan Edwards (1703–58), A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
  30. 24 Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55), An Occasional Discourse (Purity of Heart)
  31. 25 Anonymous (mid-nineteenth century), The Way of a Pilgrim
  32. 26 Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–97), Story of a Soul
  33. 27 Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941), Mysticism
  34. 28 Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–45), Life Together
  35. 29 Howard Thurman (1899–1981), Jesus and the Disinherited
  36. 30 Thomas Merton (1915–68), New Seeds of Contemplation