Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality

Arthur Holder is Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Christian Spirituality at Graduate Theological Union. A priest of the Episcopal Church, he is the co-translator of Bede: A Biblical Miscellany (1999) and the translator of Bede: On the Tabernacle (1994). He is currently Co-chair of the Christian Spirituality Group of the American Academy of Religion, and serves on the Governing Board of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality and the Editorial Board of the Society’s journal Spiritus.

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• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xivIntroduction 1Arthur HolderPart I What is Christian Spirituality? 131 Approaches to the Study of Christian Spirituality 15Sandra M. SchneidersPart II Scripture and Christian Spirituality 352 The Old Testament in Christian Spirituality 37Barbara Green3 The New Testament in Christian Spirituality 55Bonnie ThurstonPart III Christian Spirituality in History 714 Christian Spirituality during the Roman Empire (100–600) 73Columba Stewart5 Christian Spirituality in Byzantium and the East (600–1700) 90John A. McGuckin6 Christian Spirituality in the Medieval West (600–1450) 10Ulrike Wiethaus7 European Reformations of Christian Spirituality (1450–1700) 122Jill Raitt8 Christian Spirituality in Europe and North America since 1700 139Diana Butler Bass and Joseph Stewart-Sicking9 Christian Spirituality in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania 156Richard Fox YoungPart IV Theology and Christian Spirituality 17510 Trinitarian Perspectives on Christian Spirituality 177Mark A. McIntosh11 Christology in Christian Spirituality 190William Thompson-Uberuaga12 The Holy Spirit in Christian Spirituality 207Robert Davis Hughes III13 Christian Spirituality and the Theology of the Human Person 223Philip Endean14 The Church as Context for Christian Spirituality 239David Lonsdale15 Sacramentality and Christian Spirituality 254Ann Loades16 Christian Spirituality and Theological Ethics 269William C. SpohnPart V Interdisciplinary Dialogue Partners for the Study ofChristian Spirituality 28717 Social Sciences 289John A. Coleman18 Personality Sciences 308Janet K. Ruffing19 Natural Sciences 325Robert John Russell20 Aesthetics 345Alejandro García-Rivera21 Feminist Studies 363Amy Hollywood22 Ritual Studies 387Susan J. White23 Theology of Religions 401Michael BarnesPart VI Special Topics in Contemporary Christian Spirituality 41724 Experience 419David Hay25 Mysticism 442David B. Perrin26 Interpretation 459Philip F. Sheldrake27 Nature 478Douglas Burton-Christie28 Practice 496Elizabeth Liebert29 Liberation 515Michael Battle30 Interfaith Encounter 532Kwok Pui-LanIndex 550