{"product_id":"minding-the-spirit-9780801880773","title":"Minding the Spirit","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSheldrake, Jon Sobrino, Wendy M. Wright\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e: Beginnings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Spirituality as an Academic Discipline: Foundations and Methods\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. The Study of Christian Spirituality: Contours and Dynamics of a Discipline\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Letter and the Spirit: Spirituality as an Academic Discipline\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Broadening the Focus: Context as a Corrective Lens in Reading Historical Works in Spirituality\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. A Hermeneutical Approach to the Study of Christian Spirituality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Self-Implicating Nature of the Study of Spirituality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Spiritual Discipline, Discipline of Spirituality: Revisiting Questions of Definition and Method\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. The Role of Practice in the Study of Christian Spirituality\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. The Cost of Interpretation: Sacred Texts and Ascetic Practice in Desert Spirituality\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Spider as Metaphor: Attending to the Symbol-Making Process in the Academic Discipline of Spirituality\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Why Bodies Matter: A Sociological Reflection on Spirituality and Materiality\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. The Language of Inner Experience in Christian Mysticism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Interpreting the Tradition: Historical and Theological Perspectives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. The Turn to Spirituality? The Relationship between Theology and Spirituality\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12.\u003ci\u003e Extra Arcam Noe\u003c\/i\u003e: Criteria for Christian Spirituality\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Spirituality as a Resource for Theology: The Holy Spirit in Augustine\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. The Mozartian Moment: Reflections on Medieval Mysticism\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. Words that Reach into the Silence: Mystical Languages of Unsaying\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. Lover without a Name: Spirituality and Constructive Christology Today\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Spirituality and Healing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17. Monseñor Romero, a Salvadoran and a Christian\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18. An Ecologically Sensitive Spirituality\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19. Reading from the Underside of Selfhood: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Spiritual Formation\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20. Lourdes: A Pilgrim After All\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21. Christian Spirituality as a Way of Living Publicly: A Dialectic of the Mystical and Prophetic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Spirituality and Aesthetics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 22. Beauty and Terror\u003cbr\u003eChapter 23. \"A Wide and Fleshly Love\": Images, Imagination, and the Study of Christian Spirituality\u003cbr\u003eChapter 24. Sound Spirituality: On the Formative Expressive Power of Music for Christian Spirituality\u003cbr\u003eChapter 25. \"Raiding the Inarticulate\": Mysticism, Poetics, and the Unlanguageable\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfterword\u003c\/i\u003e: Emerging Issues and New Trajectories in the Study of Christian Spirituality\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038181818711,"sku":"9780801880773","price":24.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801880773.jpg?v=1750939383","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/minding-the-spirit-9780801880773","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}