Practicing Christianity: Critical Perspectives for an Embodied Spirituality - Softcover

Miles, Margaret R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597527505 ISBN 13: 9781597527507

Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

Men and women throughout history have learned to shape their lives around Christian ideas, attitudes, and values in many different ways. They have been helped by liturgies, sermons, visual imagery, religious drama, and hymns. But perhaps the most important sources were the classic devotional manuals, like The Imitation of Christ and The Pilgrim's Progress, many of which are still in use today. In this book, Margaret Miles subjects these devotional manuals to a detailed critique. Miles speaks as a scholar, as a Christian living in the modern world, and as a woman, and she ends by discussing the relevance of her findings to Christian life today.

About this title

About the Author:

Margart R. Miles was formerly Bussey Professor of Historical Theology at the Harvard University Divinity School. She is the author of 'Augustine on the Body', 'Image as Insight', and 'Carnal Knowing'.

From Library Journal:

Examining traditional devotional manuals whose attitudes have become embodied in Western culture, an historical theologian at Harvard Divinity School stresses a "hermeneutic of suspicion" as she argues that the dualistic and individualistic strains in this literature must be transformed before their valid insights can be fruitfully used by readers in a nuclear world. Despite the devotional nature of the works discussed ( Pilgrim's Progress , Imitation of Christ , etc.), her own style is that of the critical academician. For scholars and motivated lay readers.-- EC
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About this edition

• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1597527505
• ISBN 13: 9781597527507
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220