Water from a deep well: Christian spirituality from early martyrs to modern..

In Rome in A.D. 165, two men named Carpus and Papylus stood before the proconsul of Pergamum, charged with the crime of being Christians. Not even torture could make them deny Christ, so they were …

A history of Christian spirituality: an analytical introduction

This modern classic explores the key concepts and people who have shaped our Christian spiritual heritage. At the time it was first published, the author wrote, "This book is the result of finding …

Spiritual traditions for the contemporary church

This volume offers a comprehensive intellectual and experiential introduction to Christian spirituality. It embraces spiritual traditions from the Patristic period to the present day. Part I, "The …

Thirsty for God: a brief history of Christian spirituality

This accessible and engaging history provides an excellent primer on the two-millennium quest for union with God, a "thirst" at the center of Christian life and practice. Holt traces the practice o…

Christian spirituality: high middle ages and reformation

This book covers a time of movements, restlessness and change, prompted by the need to adapt to the breakdown in the feudal system and the requirements of a rising bourgeoisie. The papacy attempted…

Berulle and the French school: selected writings

This volume is a comprehensive introduction to the spirituality of seventeenth-century France, containing, among others, selections from Bérulle's Discourse on the State and Grandeurs of Jesus, Ma…

Early Christian spirituality

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

0-8006-1416-X

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viii,119p.; 22 cm.

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248.09 KAN e

Spirituality: a brief history

Engagingly written by one of the world’s leading scholars in this field, this comprehensively revised edition tells the story of Christian spirituality from its origins in the New Testament right…