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A history of Christian spirituality : an analytical introduction / Urban T. Holmes III.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Seabury Press, (c)1980.Description: x, 166 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780816401413
  • 9780866838900
  • 9780816423439
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BV4490 .H578 1980
  • BV4490
Available additional physical forms:
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Contents:
Prayer as a human act -- A phenomenology of prayer -- A psychology of prayer -- An anthropology of prayer -- A sociology of prayer -- The identification of images -- Issues in spiritual reading -- part 1. The early church -- Jewish antecedents -- New testament -- The apostolic fathers -- Alexandrian school -- Monasticism -- The Cappadocians -- Monasticism again -- Dionysius the pseudo-areopagite -- Reaction to mysticism -- The ancient west -- part 2. The middle ages (500-100) -- Heroic age (500-1000) -- The high middle ages (1000-1300) -- The schoolmen -- Popular piety -- The friars -- The late middle ages (1300-1500) -- The Rhineland mystics -- The English mystics -- The fifteen-century demise -- part 3. Byzantine spirituality -- Sinaitic monasticism -- Studite monasticism -- part 4. The modern period -- The Spanish school -- The Italian school -- The French school -- The English school -- Classical Protestantism -- Radical Protestantism -- Peitism -- Sparks among the stubble -- The contemporary scene -- Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Prayer as a human act -- A phenomenology of prayer -- A psychology of prayer -- An anthropology of prayer -- A sociology of prayer -- The identification of images -- Issues in spiritual reading -- part 1. The early church -- Jewish antecedents -- New testament -- The apostolic fathers -- Alexandrian school -- Monasticism -- The Cappadocians -- Monasticism again -- Dionysius the pseudo-areopagite -- Reaction to mysticism -- The ancient west -- part 2. The middle ages (500-100) -- Heroic age (500-1000) -- The high middle ages (1000-1300) -- The schoolmen -- Popular piety -- The friars -- The late middle ages (1300-1500) -- The Rhineland mystics -- The English mystics -- The fifteen-century demise -- part 3. Byzantine spirituality -- Sinaitic monasticism -- Studite monasticism -- part 4. The modern period -- The Spanish school -- The Italian school -- The French school -- The English school -- Classical Protestantism -- Radical Protestantism -- Peitism -- Sparks among the stubble -- The contemporary scene -- Conclusion.

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