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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463415103321

Autore

Sheldrake Philip

Titolo

A brief history of spirituality [[electronic resource] /] / Philip Sheldrake

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : John Wiley & Sons, 2013

ISBN

1-283-99368-6

1-118-47234-9

1-118-47233-0

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Wiley-Blackwell brief histories of religion series

Disciplina

248.09

Soggetti

Spirituality - History

Church history

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Spirituality: A Brief History; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 What is Spirituality?; Origins of the Word "Spirituality"; Contemporary Meaning; What is Christian Spirituality?; Spirituality and Mysticism; The Study of Spirituality; Spirituality and History; Interpretation; Types of Spirituality; Periods and Traditions; Conclusion: Criteria of Judgment; Notes; Chapter 2 Foundations: Scriptures and Early Church; Christian Spirituality and the Scriptures; Scriptural Markers; Spirituality in the New Testament; Spirituality and the Early Church; Liturgy; Spirituality and Martyrdom

Shrines, Devotion, and PilgrimageSpirituality and Doctrine; Origen; Evagrius; The Cappadocians; Augustine; Pseudo-Dionysius; Christian Spirituality as Transformation and Mission; Theories of Spiritual Transformation; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3 Monastic Spiritualities: 300-1150; The Emergence of Monasticism; Widows and Virgins; Syrian Ascetics; Egyptian Monasticism; Wisdom of the Desert; Monastic Rules; Benedictine Expansion; The New Hermits; The Cistercians; The Spiritual Values of Monasticism; Spirituality and the Conversion of Europe; Local Spiritualities: Ireland

Spirituality in the EastSyriac Spirituality; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4 Spirituality in the City: 1150-1450; The Gregorian Reform; Apocalyptic



Movements; The Vita Evangelica; Twelfth-Century Renaissance; The Rebirth of Cities; Cathedrals and Urban Vision; The City as Sacred; Universities as Sacred Space; Vita Evangelica and Urban Sensibilities; The Mendicant Movement; Dominic, Francis, Clare, and Bonaventure; The Beguines; Fourteenth-Century Mysticism; Julian of Norwich; Crossing Spiritual Boundaries: The Influence of Islam; Devotional Spirituality; Spirituality and Eastern Christianity

The RenaissanceConclusion; Notes; Chapter 5 Spiritualities in the Age of Reformations: 1450-1700; Seeds of Reform: The Devotio Moderna and Christian Humanism; The Crisis of Medieval Spirituality; Spirituality and the Lutheran Reformation; John Calvin and Reformed Spirituality; The Radical Reformation: Anabaptist Spirituality; Anglican Spirituality; George Herbert; Puritan Spirituality; Early Quakers; The Catholic Reformation; The New Orders; Ignatius Loyola and Early Ignatian Spirituality; Spirituality Beyond Europe; Carmelite Mysticism; Lay Devotion; Seventeenth-Century French Spirituality

Russian SpiritualityConclusion; Notes; Chapter 6 Spirituality in an Age of Reason: 1700-1900; Spirituality in the Roman Catholic Tradition; Pietism; Wesleyan Spirituality; American Puritanism and the Great Awakening; Shaker Spirituality; Orthodox Spirituality; Post-Revolutionary Catholicism; The English Evangelicals; The Oxford Movement; John Henry Newman; A Distinctive "American Spirituality"; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7 Modernity to Postmodernity: 1900-2000; The Impact on Spirituality; The Prophetic-Critical Type; Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916); Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)

Sommario/riassunto

Engagingly written by one of the world's leading scholars in this field, this comprehensively revised edition tells the story of Christian spirituality from its origins in the New Testament right up to the present day. Charts the main figures, ideas, images and historical periods, showing how and why spirituality has changed and developed over the centuries Includes new chapters on the nature and meaning of spirituality, and on spirituality in the 21st century; and an account of the development and main features of devotional spiritualityProvides new coverage of