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ISBN 10: 0415776015

ISBN 13: 9780415776011

Author: Arthur Holder

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.

Christian Spirituality The Classics 1st Table of contents:

1 Origen (c.185–c.253), Commentary on the Song of Songs

2 Athanasius (c.295–373), The Life of Antony

3 Gregory of Nyssa (c.335–c.395), The Life of Moses

4 Augustine (354–430), The Confessions

5 (Pseudo) Dionysius the Areopagite (late fifth century), The Divine Names and Mystical Theology

6 Benedict of Nursia (c.480–c.547), Rule

7 Gregory the Great (c.540–604), Book of Pastoral Rule

8 Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153), On Loving God

9 Mechthild of Magdeburg (c.1210–c.1282), The Flowing Light of the Godhead

10 Bonaventure (c.1217/21–1274), The Soul’s Journey into God

11 Marguerite Porete (d.1310), The Mirror of Simple Souls

12 Gregory Palamas (1296–1359), Triads in Defense of the Holy Hesychasts

13 Julian of Norwich (c.1342–c.1416), Showings

14 Anonymous (fourteenth century), The Cloud of Unknowing

15 Catherine of Siena (1347–80), Dialogue

16 Martin Luther (1483–1546), The Freedom of a Christian

17 Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), The Spiritual Exercises

18 Teresa of Avila (1515–82), The Interior Castle

19 John of the Cross (1542–91), The Dark Night

20 Francis de Sales (1567–1622), Introduction to the Devout Life

21 George Herbert (1593–1633), The Country Parson

22 Madame Jeanne Guyon (1648–1717), A Short and Very Easy Method of Prayer

23 Jonathan Edwards (1703–58), A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections

24 Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55), An Occasional Discourse (Purity of Heart)

25 Anonymous (mid-nineteenth century), The Way of a Pilgrim

26 Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–97), Story of a Soul

27 Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941), Mysticism

28 Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–45), Life Together

29 Howard Thurman (1899–1981), Jesus and the Disinherited

30 Thomas Merton (1915–68), New Seeds of Contemplation

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