SCM Studyguide Christian Spirituality

<p>The SCM Studyguide to Christian Spirituality is designed as a lucid and comprehensive introduction to spirituality for students of all religious backgrounds especially those coming to the subject for the first time.</p><p>Part One looks at the Christian spiritual tradition through an encyclopaedic study of a variety of spiritual writers. These are treated chronologically: the Bible the patristic period the time when monasticism triumphed the Middle Ages the Reformation and the post-Enlightenment period. </p><p>Part Two which could also be used at a more advanced level explores Christian spirituality through a range of interdisciplinary themes. Successive chapters look at its relation to personal experience science theology psychology sexual embodiment and ethics. The final chapter raises urgent contemporary issues: the relation of Christian spirituality to that of other faiths and to 'postmodern' culture in general.</p><p>Each chapter concludes with questions for discussion and select further reading and an extensive bibliography for each chapter is also provided.</p>