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Studying Christian spirituality /

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Studying Christian spirituality /

[Book]

David B. Perrin.

London :

Routledge,

©2007.

1 online resource (xii, 346 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Studying Christian Spirituality -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- P reface -- Introduction -- Goals of this book -- Christian spirituality and the human sciences -- No one field of study has all the answers -- Refinement of research strategies -- Christian spirituality is self-implicating -- Methodology for studies in Christian spirituality -- Core methodological principles -- NOTES -- 1 Questions of definitions -- Introduction -- Spirituality -- Spirituality in everyday life -- Christian spirituality -- Christian spirituality and theology -- Methods in the study of Christian spirituality -- Spirituality and religion -- Christian spirituality and experience -- Conclusion -- RECOMMENDED READING -- NOTES -- 2 Questions of context -- Introduction -- The expulsion of God from ordinary place -- Images and symbols come from place -- Geography and sacred space: the desert and the city -- The contribution of sociology to context -- Modernism to postmodernism: the context of being "in-between" -- Conclusion -- RECOMMENDED READING -- NOTES -- 3 Questions of God -- Introduction -- Models of God -- Models of God reveal a philosophy of life -- Which models of God? -- Evolving models of God and cosmology -- The apophatic and kataphatic ways -- Conclusion -- RECOMMENDED READING -- NOTES -- 4 Questions of Christian anthropology -- Introduction -- The imago Dei -- The nature of the self -- The self as defined by culture: the pre-modern, modern, and postmodern self -- The nature of self-knowledge -- Profiles of the self -- Conclusion -- RECOMMENDED READING -- NOTES -- 5 Questions of history -- Introduction -- What is history? -- The nature of historical inquiry -- History of Christian spirituality and theology -- Christian spirituality and its particular history -- Christian hagiography -- Role and place of tradition in the history of Christian spirituality -- Conclusion -- RECOMMENDED READING -- NOTES -- 6 Questions of text -- Introduction -- What is a text? -- Interpretation of texts -- The reading and interpreting community -- Why the hermeneutical method of interpretation is helpful -- Classic Christian texts -- Conclusion -- RECOMMENDED READING -- NOTES -- 7 Questions of human-spiritual development -- Introduction -- Fundamental points of reference: models -- The intersection of psychology and spirituality -- The experience of Christian human-spiritual development: Christian mysticism and asceticism -- The threefold classical spiritual itinerary: mysticism, asceticism, and human-spiritual growth -- Conclusion -- RECOMMENDED READING -- NOTES -- 8 Questions of spiritual practice -- Introduction -- The nature of spiritual practice -- Prayer -- Bible reading -- Spiritual direction -- Pilgrimage -- Conclusion -- RECOMMENDED READING -- NOTES -- 9 Questions of critical edges -- Introduction -- Science -- Work and leadership -- Health -- Politics, government and globalization -- Cyberspace -- New Age -- Gender -- Feminism -- Men's movements -- Conclu.

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"Studying Christian Spirituality is the ideal introduction for students wishing to discover how spirituality can be understood beyond the conventional boundaries that religions have established. In nine chapters, the book includes discussion of a wide variety of issues and questions." "David B. Perrin explains clearly the traditional relationships between Christian spirituality and theology and history. He also proposes greater connections with the human sciences, such as philosophy, psychology, phenomenology, and sociology, and reshapes the classical approaches to Christian spirituality, its texts, practices, and experience. Studying Christian Spirituality will enable students to develop a deeper understanding of Christian spirituality's research methods, and its relevance to the world today."--Jacket.

Studying Christian spirituality.

0415394732

Christianity and the social sciences.

Spirituality.

Andligt liv-- kristendom.

Christianity and the social sciences.

RELIGION-- Christian Life-- General.

Spiritualiteit.

Spirituality.

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Perrin, David B.,1956-

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