| SCM Studyguide: Christian Spirituality Contributor(s): Thompson, Ross (Author), Williams, Gareth (With) |
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ISBN: 0334040930 ISBN-13: 9780334040934 Publisher: SCM Press OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Education - General - Religion | Christianity - General - Religion | Spirituality |
| Dewey: 248 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.6" W x 9.1" (1 lbs) 254 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The SCM Studyguide to Christian Spirituality is designed as an introduction to spirituality for students of all religious backgrounds coming to the subject for the first time. Part One begins with the question, what is Christian spirituality? The definition comes through a series of investigations looking at spirituality and Christianity, spirituality and materiality, spirituality and the Arts, spirituality and ethics, spirituality and world faiths and finally spirituality and the psyche. Part Two looks at the Christian spiritual tradition through the study of a variety of spiritual writers. Writings are treated chronologically; biblical, the patristic period, the middle ages, the reformation, the modern period and contemporary or post modern period. Writers are considered under three headings; spirituality drawn from light and affirmation, spirituality encountered through darkness and desert and spirituality encountered through love and union. Each of these themes contains examples from scripture, the patristic period, medieval writings, the reformation, the modern period and contemporary times. |
Contributor Bio(s): Thompson, Ross: - 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. |
