San Francisco : Ignatius Press ; London : Sheed & Ward, 1985
Physical Details
x, 326 pages ; 22 cm
ISBNs
0722019173
OCLC
ocm12974093
Includes index.
Bibliography: pages [279]-317.
Sacred scripture and the spiritual life. The Old Testament ; The New Testament -- Spirituality of the early church. The apostolic fathers ; Christian life ; Christian gnosticism -- Monasticism in the east. Christian virgins and ascetics ; Eremitical and cenobitical life ; The Cappadocian fathers ; Evagrius, pseudo-Dionysius, Maximus -- Monasticism in the west. Origins of western monasticism ; John Cassian ; St. Augustine ; St. Benedict ; Irish monasticism ; St. Gregory the Great -- Benedictine spirituality. Benedict of Aniane ; Hildemar ; Cluniac reform ; John of Fécamp ; St. Peter Damian ; Camaldolese hermits ; The Carthusians ; Cictercian spirituality ; St. Bernard ; William of St. Thierry ; St. Aelred of Rievaulx ; Nuns and laybrothers -- Spirituality of the middle ages. Medieval piety ; Military orders ; St. Norbert and Prémontré ; Canons of St. Victor ; Scholasticism ; St. Dominic and the friars preachers ; St. Thomas Aquinas ; St. Francis and the friars minor ; St. Bonaventure ; Multiplicaton of religious orders -- Dionysian spirituality and devotio moderna. The mystics of Helfta ; Eckhart, Tauler, Suso ; Ruysbroeck ; The English mystics ; Devotio moderna ; John Gerson ; St. Catherine of Siena ; Denis the Carthusian -- Post-tridentine spirituality. Spiritual exercises ; Christian Humanism ; St. Ignatius Loyola ; St. Teresa of Avila ; St. John of the Cross ; Spain's golden age ; Italian spirituality ; St. Francis de Sales -- Modern spirituality. Sources of French spirituality ; Jansenism ; Quietism ; Return to orthodoxy ; St. Alphonsus Liguori ; German rationalism and mysticism ; Revival in England -- The twentieth century. St. Thérèse of Liseux ; Elizabeth of the Trinity ; Charles de Foucauld ; Liturgical revival ; Missionary expansion and Catholic action ; Sanctity among the laity ; Systematic spiritual theology