The New Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality

Author: Philip Sheldrake
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664230036
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 710

Book Description
This new volume, replacing The Westminster Dictionary of Spirituality by Gordon S. Wakefield (1983), stands as the definitive reference work on all aspects of Christian spirituality. Several years in the making and comprised of more than 400 completely new entries, the Dictionary incorporates the collective expertise of today's foremost scholars in the field of Christian spirituality. Systematically organized and alphabetically arranged for maximum ease of use, the book includes comprehensive bibliographies; a section of short essays on the content, methods, and current debates in the field; and reading lists to encourage additional reading and research. Philip F. Sheldrake is Professor in the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Durham.

New SCM Dictionary of Christian Spirituality

Author: Philip Sheldrake
Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 0334049547
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 974

Book Description
This dictionary attempts to give direct access to the development of Christian Spirituality. It is a series of pieces written by experts to provide instant, accurate and thought-provoking information of high scholarship.

The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality

Author: Gordon S. Wakefield
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664221706
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
Ecumenical in character, this comprehensive and authoritative dictionary is the achievement of scholars of international standing--Anglicans, Roman Catholics, Baptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Methodists, Lutherans, and others....The articles are nondogmatic and scholarly....The main emphasis is thematic--the entries represent types, schools, and subjects. Articles that refer to non-Christian religions...are included insofar as they have influenced Christianity. The unifying theme of the dictionary is that it seeks to illumine ways in which women and men have responded to God in prayer and living...

Dictionary of Christian Spirituality

Author: Zondervan,
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
ISBN: 0310531039
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 2439

Book Description
In recent decades Christian spirituality, spiritual formation and spiritual theology have become important concepts in the global evangelical community. Consequently, an accessible and reliable academic resource is needed on these topics—one that will offer a discerning orientation to the wealth of ecumenical resources available while still highlighting the distinct heritage and affirming the core grace-centered values of classic evangelical spirituality. The Dictionary of Christian Spirituality reflects an overarching interpretive framework for evangelical spiritual formation: a holistic and grace-filled spirituality that encompasses relational (connecting), transformational (becoming), and vocational (doing) dynamics. At the same time, contributors respectfully acknowledge the differences between Reformed, Holiness, and Pentecostal paradigms of the spiritual life. And, by bringing together writers from around the world who share a common orthodoxy, this reference work is truly global and international in both its topical scope and contributors. Entries give appropriate attention to concepts, concerns, and formative figures in the evangelical tradition of spirituality that other reference work neglect. They offer a discerning orientation to the wealth of ecumenical resources available, exploring the similarities and differences between Christianity and alternate spiritualities without lapsing into relativism. The Dictionary of Christian Spirituality is a resource that covers a wide range of topics relating to Christian spirituality and is biblically engaged, accessible, and relevant for all contemporary Christians.

Dictionary of Christian Spirituality

Author: Glen G. Scorgie
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
ISBN: 9780310290667
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This reference work provides readers with a global, biographical, historical, topical, and biblical understanding of the origins, development, and contemporary expressions of Christian spirituality--a unique and valuable resource for pastors, church and ministry leaders, mentors, counselors, teachers, and scholars.

Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms

Author: Donald K. McKim
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664255114
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Defines 6,000 terms on such topics as the Bible, worship, theology, ministry, ethics, church history, and spirituality

SCM Studyguide to Christian Spirituality

Author: Ross Thompson
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 0334040930
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
TheSCM Studyguide: Christian Spiritualityis designed as an introduction to spirituality for students of all religious backgrounds coming to the subject for the first time.

Spiritual Theology

Author: Simon Chan
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830876995
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 301

Book Description
Simon Chan surveys the little-explored landscape where systematic theology and godly praxis meet, and he highlights the connections between Christian doctrine and Christian living.

Exploring Christian Spirituality

Author: Bruce H. Lescher
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809142163
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Sandra Schneiders commands respect as one of the most significant and influential figures in the emergence of the study of Christian spirituality as an academic discipline, as the focused and disciplined exploration of religious experience. This book honors her contributions to the field by addressing issues that are emerging at the creative "edges" of the discipline. In this volume, colleagues and students of Dr. Schneiders and other collaborators in the academic discipline of Christian spirituality examine crucial issues from their various disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Questions of methodology address the status of spirituality as a discipline, interdisciplinarity, and self-implication. Other essays explore the "edges" of Christian spirituality and biblical spirituality, gender studies, the natural sciences, nature writing, the social sciences, and interfaith issues. This collection of essays will provoke students and scholars of Christian spirituality, as well as practitioners, to continue critically thinking, discussing, writing, and practicing it.

Studying Christian Spirituality

Author: David B. Perrin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134159153
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 359

Book Description
This book provides a new introduction to the study of Christian spirituality, exploring it through the human sciences and ranging from philosophy and hermeneutics to psychology, history, sociology and anthropology. Systematic and progressive, it introduces the key approaches and shows how they relate to the understanding, study and practice of spirituality. Covering a vast amount of ground - from traditional themes such as images of God, spiritual direction and pilgrimage to more contemporary issues, such as place and space, cyberspace and postcolonialism - the author takes an ecumenical, inclusive stance, allowing the book to be used in a wide variety of courses and across denominations.