TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sheldrake, Philip
AU  - Sheldrake,Philip
TI  - A Brief History of Spirituality
SN  - 9781405117715
U1  - K25 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Blackwell Publishig
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Introduction: What is Spirituality?  Contemporary Meaning   Spirituality and History   Interpretation   Periods and Traditions  i   Foundations: Scriptures and Early Church  Christian Spirituality and the Scriptures  Scriptural Markers  Spirituality in the New Testament  Spirituality and the Early Church  Liturgy  Spirituality and Martyrdom  Spirituality and Doctrine  Origen  Evagrius  The Cappadocians  Augustine  Pseudo-Dionysius  Christian Spirituality as Transformation and Mission  Theories of Spiritual Transformation   Conclusion  2   The Monastic Paradigm: 300-1150  The Emergence of Monasticism  Widows and Virgins  Syrian Ascetics  Egyptian Monasticism  Wisdom of the Desert  Monastic Rules  Benedictine Expansion  The New Hermits  The Cistercians  The Spiritual Values of Monasticism  Spirituality and the Conversion of Europe  Local Spiritualities: Ireland  Spirituality in the East  Syriac Spirituality  Conclusion  3   Spirituality in the City: 1150-1450  The Gregorian Reform  The Vita Evangelica  Twelfth-Century Renaissance  The Rebirth of Cities  Cathedrals and Urban Vision  The City as Sacred  Universities as Sacred Space  Vita Evangelica and Urban Sensibilities  The Mendicant Movement  The Oxford Movement  John Henry Newman  A Distinctive "American Spirituality"  Conclusion  6    Modernity to Postmodernity: 1900-2000  The Impact on Spirituality  Evelyn Underhill  Dietrich Bonhoeffer  Simone Weil  Dorothy Day  Thomas Merton  Spiritualities of Liberation  Gustavo Gutierrez  Feminist Spirituality  Spiritualities of Reconciliation  Ecumenical Spirituality: The Example of Taize  Spirituality and Inter-Religious Dialogue:  Bede Griffiths Making Spirituality Democratic:  The Retreat Movement Making Spirituality Democratic:  The Charismatic Movement   Conclusion
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