ABSTRACT

This book provides a new introduction to the study of Christian spirituality, exploring it through the human sciences and ranging from philosophy and hermeneutics to psychology, history, sociology and anthropology.

Systematic and progressive, it introduces the key approaches and shows how they relate to the understanding, study and practice of spirituality. Covering a vast amount of ground - from traditional themes such as images of God, spiritual direction and pilgrimage to more contemporary issues, such as place and space, cyberspace and postcolonialism - the author takes an ecumenical, inclusive stance, allowing the book to be used in a wide variety of courses and across denominations.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|42 pages

Questions of definitions

chapter 2|38 pages

Questions of context

chapter 3|24 pages

Questions of God

chapter 4|30 pages

Questions of Christian anthropology

chapter 5|36 pages

Questions of history

chapter 6|34 pages

Questions of text

chapter 7|46 pages

Questions of human-spiritual development

chapter 8|32 pages

Questions of spiritual practice

chapter 9|42 pages

Questions of critical edges