Opis: Minding the Spirit - E Dreyer

The birth of an academic discipline is a rare event. Even more extraordinary is academia's acknowledgment that spirituality has scholarly as well as personal dimensions. Inquiry and dialogue are the essence of this new discipline, as it paves the way toward a deeper understanding of what it means to be human within the Christian faith. The twenty-five essays in this volume, originally published in either the Christian Spirituality Bulletin or Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, offer groundbreaking explorations of Christian spirituality. Arranged under five broad headings, these essays create an insightful dialogue on the questions, methods, and critical approaches implemented by the discipline's top scholars. Topics addressed include the particular intellectual and methodological challenges presented by spirituality as an academic discipline, the self-implicating nature of the study of spirituality, historical perspectives, theological implications, healing as a function of spirituality, and the relationship between aesthetics and spirituality-art and spirit. Scholars working on either broad or focused themes in spirituality will benefit from this clear and accessible presentation of the salient aspects of the discipline. In their insight and historical and methodological content, these essays provide valuable tools for students and teachers of spirituality and related fields, in their insight and historical and methodological content. This volume speaks to all who practice and study spirituality from any religious or secular perspective, encouraging reflective and open dialogue with one of humanity's major religious traditions. Contributors: J. Matthew Ashley, Thomas Berry, Mark S. Burrows, Douglas Burton-Christie, Lawrence S. Cunningham, Lisa E. Dahill, Elizabeth A. Dreyer, Mary Frohlich, Belden C. Lane, Elizabeth Liebert, E. Ann Matter, Bernard McGinn, Meredith B. McGuire, Mark McIntosh, Barbara Newman, Walter H. Principe, Don E. Saliers, Sandra M. Schneiders, Philip F. Sheldrake, Jon Sobrino, Wendy M. Wright This is a collection of 25 articles... Several stand out as particularly helpful in understanding how the study of spirituality has become an academic discipline. Choice 2005 Ably edited... Merits study by all persons who have a serious interest in spirituality. -- E. Glenn Hinson Christian Century 2005 I shall be referring to it frequently and recommending it to my students. -- Edward Howells The Way: Review of Christian Spirituality 2006 This book is essential for those engaged in the academic study of spirituality. -- Jill Raitt Theological Studies 2006 The book has a broad appeal to specialists in spirituality and theology, pedagogues, and graduate and upper-undergraduate level students. -- Charlotte Radler Religious Studies Review 2006 Once I began reading this text, the challenges and depth of thought drew me in. Every chapter contains quotable ideas and captures a bit of the numinous we seek! -- Jane Gaeta Trinity Seminary Review 2007 Not just clever... It goes to the heart of one of the central issues involved in the study of spirituality. -- Bruce Hindmarsh Books and Culture: A Christian Review 2007

Szczegóły: Minding the Spirit - E Dreyer

Tytuł: Minding the Spirit
Autor: E Dreyer
Producent: John Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9780801880773
Rok produkcji: 2004
Ilość stron: 416
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.84 kg

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