Studies in Formative Spirituality
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Total Pages: 464
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Understanding Our Story
Author: Rebecca Letterman
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2017-02-28
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1532601808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding Our Story presents a concise introduction to the original, transformative thinking of Adrian van Kaam, CSSp, PhD (1920-2007). While many books are available on "spiritual formation" and "Christian disciplines," no other author of our time has offered such a holistic and comprehensive explanation of Christian formation and its relationship to the human spirituality of all persons. Understanding our Story culls the most seminal ideas and vocabulary from van Kaam's eleven volumes on formation science, formation anthropology, and formation theology, and provides examples of his theoretical-practical research drawn from everyday life, Scripture, Christian writers, and van Kaam's life story itself. In doing so, it makes his extensive work available to scholars in the field of spiritual formation, and gives all readers the opportunity to utilize his insightful thinking to more fully understand the myriad ways in which God reforms and transforms lives into the image of Christ. In the pluritraditional world in which we live, where so many faith and formation traditions demand our attention, van Kaam's formative spirituality provides a means of respectful dialogue with formationally relevant truths from others and of wise appraisal of ideas that are (and are not) conducive to, and compatible with, the Christian revelation.
Studies in Formative Spirituality
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 412
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelational Spirituality
Author: Todd W. Hall
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2021-05-25
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 083089957X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHuman beings are fundamentally relational—we develop, heal, and grow through relationships. Integrating insights from psychology and theology, Todd W. Hall and M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall present a definitive model of spiritual transformation based on a relational paradigm, showing how transformation works practically in the context of relationships and community.
Staritsa
Author: Donald A. Guglielmi
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2017-12-07
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1498289401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present book is the first work to highlight Catherine Doherty's vocation to spiritual motherhood. Drawing upon primary archival sources, the author traces Catherine's development as a staritsa, or spiritual mother in the Russian-Eastern tradition. Of particular interest are the chapters dealing with Catherine's exercise of spiritual motherhood for priests and laity alike. Previously unpublished letters of spiritual direction between Catherine and her major spiritual directors offer the reader a privileged glimpse into the soul of this servant of God and her spiritual children, as she grows in her vocation as staritsa. For example, in one striking letter, Catherine describes how she guided a disillusioned young priest who was struggling with a drinking problem and temptations involving young women, and was bordering on despair: "With clenched teeth I sailed into him, first gently, almost caressingly calling him back to Christ he once loved, then more sternly, then quietly. . . . He left full of thanks and some hope . . . ."
Holy Power, Holy Presence
Author: Elizabeth Dreyer
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780809144853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWestern theology is frequently criticized for not having a fully developed pneumatology. According to these critics, preoccupation with Christology and an excessive focus on the nature and unity of God have come at the expense of a full theology of the three persons. While admitting that there is some truth to these criticisms, Elizabeth Dreyer maintains that those who level them base their conclusions on a narrow range of texts and thus fail to establish a true neglect of the Holy Spirit. Medieval authors offer a wealth of creative language and insight that speaks to the role of the Holy Spirit in contemporary spirituality and contributes to a renewed pneumatology for the twenty-first century. Book jacket.
Liturgy and Life
Author: Timothy M. Brunk
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780820486895
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A Christian Pilgrim in India
Author: Harry Oldmeadow
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1933316454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a biographical account of the remarkable Benedictine monk, Henri Le Saux (1910-1973), who spent the last two-and-a-half decades of his life in India where he immersed himself in Hindu spirituality. It traces the central themes of his prolific writings on religious and mystical topics.
Medieval Women on Sin and Salvation
Author: Mary Lou Shea
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781433109485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHadewijch of Antwerp (c.1200?-1240), Beatrice of Nazareth (1200-1268), Margaret Ebner (1291-1351), and Julian of Norwich (1343-1416/19) are best known for their mystical experiences and literary styles. Medieval Women on Sin and Salvation explores the reality that these women understood their encounters in primarily theological categories. It is well documented that Anselm of Canterbury's 1098 Cur Deus Homo was quickly and widely adopted by late medieval religious men. Given the deeply relational, somewhat unconventional, yet clearly orthodox interpretations of Anselm's theory expressed by Hadewijch, Beatrice, Margaret, and Julian, it would seem that nuns, beguines, and devout lay women were compelled by the same understanding of Atonement as the priests, monks, brothers, and lay men of the era. Unable to offer academic theological treatises, given the constraints of their age, these women managed to convey, through their writings, profoundly theological insights into the crucial Christian concepts of the natures of soul and sin, the Fall, and the Incarnation and its benefits, both for God and for humanity. This book offers valuable new insights and is suitable for upper division undergraduate classes and graduate courses in the history of Christianity/Medieval Christianity, theology, spirituality, and women's studies.
Between the 'Mysticism of Politics' and the 'Politics of Mysticism'
Author: David Ranson
Publisher: ATF Press
Published: 2013-08-31
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1922239380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween the Politics of Mysticism and the Mysticism of Politics traces the dialectic of 'the mystical' and the political' from both a theological and an historical perspective. It presents the dialectic as a hermeneutic for the rise of the new ecclesial communities within the Roman Catholic Tradition and suggests it as the framework by which a trajectory for Christian holiness might emerge in the 21st century.
