The Study of Spirituality

by Jones, Cheslyn; Wainwright, Geoffrey; Yarnold, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780195041705
• ISBN10: 0195041704
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-12-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Written by contributors representing the Anglican, Roman Catholic, Free Church, and Orthodox traditions, this collection examines the nature and form of individual Christian devotion throughout the centuries.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	xiii
Contributors	xvii
Preface	xxi
Abbreviations	xxvii
Part One The Theology of Spirituality	1	(44)
Liturgy and Personal Devotion	3	(6)
C. P. M. Jones
The Theology of Christian Spirituality	9	(8)
Edward Yarnold
Mysticism, Human and Divine	17	(7)
C. P. M. Jones
Prayer and Personality: Prayer as Primary Speech	24	(9)
Ann
Barry Ulanov
Sociology and the Study of Spirituality	33	(6)
Anthony Russell
Media of Spirituality	39	(6)
Edward Yarnold
Part Two The History of Spirituality	45	(518)
Introduction	47	(55)
Biblical Roots	47	(1)
The Old Testament	47	(11)
John Barton
The New Testament	58	(32)
C. P. M. Jones
Philosophical Roots	90	(1)
Greek Philosophy, Wisdom Literature and Gnosis	90	(4)
Anthony Meredith
Philo	94	(2)
Anthony Meredith
Plotinus	96	(3)
Anthony Meredith
Proclus	99	(3)
Anthony Meredith
The Early Fathers	102	(29)
The Apostolic Fathers and Irenaeus	102	(7)
Simon Tugwell
Tertullian and Cyprian	109	(3)
Edward Yarnold
Clement of Alexandria	112	(3)
Anthony Meredith
Origen	115	(4)
Anthony Meredith
The Desert Fathers, Antony and Pachomius	119	(12)
Philip Rousseau
The Latin Fathers	131	(28)
Ambrose	131	(2)
Edward Yarnold
Jerome	133	(1)
Edward Yarnold
Augustine	134	(11)
Andrew Louth
John Cassian	145	(3)
Owen Chadwick
Benedict	148	(9)
Placid Spearritt
John Scotus Eriugena	157	(2)
Edward Yarnold
The Eastern Fathers	159	(57)
Greek Writers from the Cappadocians to John of Damascus	159	(1)
Introduction	159	(2)
Kallistos Ware
The Cappadocians	161	(7)
Andrew Louth
Evagrius and Macarius	168	(7)
Simon Tugwell
The Origins of the Jesus Prayer: Diadochus, Gaza, Sinai	175	(9)
Kallistos Ware
Denys the Areopagite	184	(6)
Andrew Louth
Maximus the Confessor	190	(5)
Andrew Louth
The Spirituality of the Icon	195	(21)
Kallistos Ware
The Syriac Tradition	199	(17)
Sebastian Brock
Insular Traditions	216	(19)
Celtic Spirituality	216	(9)
Diarmuid O'laoghaire
The Anglo-Saxon Tradition	225	(10)
Milton McC. Gatch
The Eastern Tradition from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century	235	(42)
Greek	235	(1)
Symeon the New Theologian	235	(7)
Kallistos Ware
The Hesychasts: Gregory of Sinai, Gregory Palamas, Nicolas Cabasilas	242	(13)
Kallistos Ware
The Hesychast Renaissance	255	(22)
Kallistos Ware
Russian	259	(18)
Sergei Hackel
The Medieval West	277	(65)
Monastic Spirituality	277	(1)
Gregory the Great	277	(3)
Benedicta Ward
Anselm of Canterbury	280	(16)
Benedicta Ward
The New Orders	283	(9)
Benedicta Ward
Joachim of Fiore	292	(2)
Marjorie Reeves
The Mendicants	294	(2)
Simon Tugwell
The Dominicans	296	(5)
Simon Tugwell
The Franciscans	301	(8)
John R. H. Moorman
Italian Spiritual Writers	309	(1)
Dante Alighieri	309	(2)
Max Saint
Catherine of Siena	311	(2)
Max Saint
Catherine of Genoa	313	(2)
Max Saint
Teutonic Mysticism	315	(1)
The Rhineland Mystics	315	(6)
Cyprian Smith
Oliver Davies
Ruysbroeck, a Kempis and the Theologia Deutsch	321	(4)
Oliver Davies
Nicholas of Cusa (Cusanus)	325	(17)
Edward Yarnold
The English Mystics	328	(10)
Clifton Wolters
Northern Humanists before the Reform	338	(4)
James McConica
The Modern World	342	(15)
The Protestant Reformation	342	(1)
Introduction	342	(1)
D. H. Tripp
Luther	343	(3)
D. H. Tripp
Zwingli	346	(4)
C. M. Dent
The Anabaptists	350	(4)
C. M. Dent
Calvin	354	(2)
D. H. Tripp
Conclusion	356	(1)
D. H. Tripp
The Catholic Reformation	357	(1)
Spain	357	(22)
Ignatius Loyola	357	(6)
Michael Ivens
Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross	363	(14)
E. W. Trueman Dicken
Other Spanish Spiritual Writers	377	(2)
E. W. Trueman Dicken
France	379	(45)
Francois de Sales	379	(7)
Elisabeth Stopp
Berulle and the `French School'	386	(10)
John Saward
Jansenism	396	(10)
Elfrieda Dubois
Pascal	406	(2)
Elfrieda Dubois
Fenelon and Quietism	408	(7)
Elfrieda Dubois
Jean-Pierre de Caussade	415	(4)
Mark Gibbard
Charles de Foucauld	419	(5)
Mark Gibbard
English Roman Catholics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries	424	(67)
John Coulson
Later Protestant Spirituality	431	(1)
The Caroline Divines and the Cambridge Platonists	431	(6)
Martin Thornton
The Puritans	437	(8)
Gordon S. Wakefield
The Quakers	445	(3)
Gordon S. Wakefield
Continental Pietism	448	(4)
David W. Lotz
The Nonjurors and William Law	452	(3)
W. Jardine Grisbrooke
John Wesley and the Methodist Movement	455	(4)
A. Raymond George
The Evangelical Revival in the Church of England	459	(4)
Michael Hennell
The Catholic Revival in the Church of England	463	(6)
R. D. Townsend
Kierkegaard	469	(4)
D. A. Hart
Some Patterns in American Protestantism	473	(8)
Robert Handy
Black Worship	481	(10)
James Cone
Other Religions	491	(28)
Judaism	491	(7)
Louis Jacobs
Islam	498	(6)
F. W. Zimmermann
Hinduism	504	(6)
J. Duncan M. Derrett
Buddhism	510	(3)
J. Duncan M. Derrett
African Religion	513	(3)
John S. Mbiti
Amerindian Spirituality	516	(3)
D. Stover
Current Spirituality	519	(44)
Orthodoxy	519	(5)
Alexander Schmemann
Roman Catholicism	524	(6)
Edward Malatesta
Protestantism	530	(7)
Gordon S. Wakefield
Anglicanism	537	(3)
A. M. Allchin
Ecumenical Spirituality	540	(9)
Geoffrey Wainwright
Pentecostals and the Charismatic Movement	549	(5)
Walter J. Hollenweger
Interplay with Other Religions	554	(9)
Kosuke Koyama
Part Three Pastoral Spirituality	563	(43)
Pastoral Applications of Spirituality	565	(27)
The Nature of Spiritual Development	565	(3)
Christopher Bryant
The Nature of Spiritual Direction: Sacramental Confession	568	(2)
Christopher Bryant
Group Prayer	570	(3)
John Gunstone
Communities Old and New	573	(3)
Anthony Priddis
Adaptation of Historic Spirituality for Today	576	(2)
Mark Gibbard
Retreat	578	(4)
John Townroe
Spirituality and Social Justice	582	(2)
Kenneth Leech
Prayer and Theological Reflection	584	(4)
John Macquarrie
Christian Spirituality and Healing	588	(4)
John Townroe
Types of Spirituality	592	(14)
Geoffrey Wainwright
Index of Subjects	606	(13)
Index of Names	619	(14)
Index of Biblical References	633