TY - BOOK AU - Holmes,Urban T. TI - A history of Christian spirituality: an analytical introduction SN - 9780816401413 AV - BV4490 .H578 1980 PY - 1980/// CY - New York PB - Seabury Press KW - Spirituality KW - History N1 - 2; 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; 2 ER -