Studying Christian Spirituality

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p> Acknowledgments, Preface, Introduction, 1. Questions of definitions, 2. Questions of context, 3. Questions of God, 4. Questions of Christian anthropology, 5. Questions of history, 6. Questions of text, 7. Questions of human-spiritual development, 8. Questions of spiritual practice, 9. Questions of critical edges, Index