Sources of Transformation: Revitalising Christian Spirituality - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441125752 ISBN 13: 9781441125750

Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2010

Synopsis

A group of leading scholars has written a book arguing for the revitalisation of Christian spiritual traditions. Relying heavily on the spiritual genius of the great masters of the past - Augustine, Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Avila - this is also a book culturally attuned to men and women today. There are brilliant chapters on Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, and Tony de Mello, and on the value of past classics for present spiritual growth.

There is here no intellectual pirouetting - this is the theology of experience and of existential openness to transcendence.

About this title

About the Author

Dr Edward Howells is Lecturer in Christian Spirituality at Heythrop College, University of London. Dr Peter Tyler is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of Pastoral Theology at St Mary's University College, Twickenham, London. Previous publications include St John of the Cross — Outstanding Christian Thinker (Continuum 2010), Sources of Transformation: Revitalising Christian Spirituality (edited with Edward Howells) (Continuum 2010) and The Return to the Mystical: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Teresa of Avila and the Christian Mystical Tradition (Continuum 2011). Bernard McGinn is the Naomi Shenstone Donnelly Professor Historical Theology and the History of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441125752
• ISBN 13: 9781441125750
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 203
• Editor: Howells Edward, Tyler Peter