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This is a collection of 25 articles... Several stand out as particularly helpful in understanding how the study of spirituality has become an academic discipline.
Ably edited... Merits study by all persons who have a serious interest in spirituality.
I shall be referring to it frequently and recommending it to my students.
This book is essential for those engaged in the academic study of spirituality.
The book has a broad appeal to specialists in spirituality and theology, pedagogues, and graduate and upper-undergraduate level students.
Once I began reading this text, the challenges and depth of thought drew me in. Every chapter contains quotable ideas and captures a bit of the numinous we seek!
Not just clever... It goes to the heart of one of the central issues involved in the study of spirituality.
Minding the Spirit is a splendid opportunity for scholars and lay readers alike to listen in on an extended and engaging conversation by pioneering scholars whose work has given birth to the new field of spirituality. Well crafted and perceptively designed, this volume of lively essays is a major and first-rate contribution to this burgeoning yet youthful field of spirituality.
Fortunately, we now have in one book the basic documents needed to deal with questions and concerns central to academic study of Christian spirituality. Here the 'founding mothers and fathers' of this new discipline clearly present their convictions regarding such issues as: what distinguishes this field from others? what characterizes its method? how can it be both self-implicating and critical? Written by seasoned faculty, these essays are excellent examples of how to practice what you teach.
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Trim Size
6.75
x 10
Pages
416
ISBN
9780801880773
Illustration Description
3 line drawings
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Beginnings
Part I: Spirituality as an Academic Discipline: Foundations and Methods
Chapter 1. The Study of Christian Spirituality: Contours and Dynamics of a
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Beginnings
Part I: Spirituality as an Academic Discipline: Foundations and Methods
Chapter 1. The Study of Christian Spirituality: Contours and Dynamics of a Discipline
Chapter 2. The Letter and the Spirit: Spirituality as an Academic Discipline
Chapter 3. Broadening the Focus: Context as a Corrective Lens in Reading Historical Works in Spirituality
Chapter 4. A Hermeneutical Approach to the Study of Christian Spirituality
Part II: The Self-Implicating Nature of the Study of Spirituality
Chapter 5. Spiritual Discipline, Discipline of Spirituality: Revisiting Questions of Definition and Method
Chapter 6. The Role of Practice in the Study of Christian Spirituality
Chapter 7. The Cost of Interpretation: Sacred Texts and Ascetic Practice in Desert Spirituality
Chapter 8. Spider as Metaphor: Attending to the Symbol-Making Process in the Academic Discipline of Spirituality
Chapter 9. Why Bodies Matter: A Sociological Reflection on Spirituality and Materiality
Chapter 10. The Language of Inner Experience in Christian Mysticism
Part III: Interpreting the Tradition: Historical and Theological Perspectives
Chapter 11. The Turn to Spirituality? The Relationship between Theology and Spirituality
Chapter 12. Extra Arcam Noe: Criteria for Christian Spirituality
Chapter 13. Spirituality as a Resource for Theology: The Holy Spirit in Augustine
Chapter 14. The Mozartian Moment: Reflections on Medieval Mysticism
Chapter 15. Words that Reach into the Silence: Mystical Languages of Unsaying
Chapter 16. Lover without a Name: Spirituality and Constructive Christology Today
Part IV: Spirituality and Healing
Chapter 17. Monseñor Romero, a Salvadoran and a Christian
Chapter 18. An Ecologically Sensitive Spirituality
Chapter 19. Reading from the Underside of Selfhood: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Spiritual Formation
Chapter 20. Lourdes: A Pilgrim After All
Chapter 21. Christian Spirituality as a Way of Living Publicly: A Dialectic of the Mystical and Prophetic
Part V: Spirituality and Aesthetics
Chapter 22. Beauty and Terror
Chapter 23. "A Wide and Fleshly Love": Images, Imagination, and the Study of Christian Spirituality
Chapter 24. Sound Spirituality: On the Formative Expressive Power of Music for Christian Spirituality
Chapter 25. "Raiding the Inarticulate": Mysticism, Poetics, and the Unlanguageable
Afterword: Emerging Issues and New Trajectories in the Study of Christian Spirituality
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