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This dictionary attempts to give direct access to the development of Christian Spirituality. It is a series of pieces written by experts to provide instant, accurate and thought-provoking information of high scholarship.
“This term ‘Christian Spirituality’ has become very fashionable, but requires definition. It derives from one of the classifications habitual to the Church of Rome, and formulated by M. l’Abbé Pourrat in his La Spiritualité Chrétienne. He distinguishes between ‘Dogmatic,’ ‘Moral,’ and ‘Spiritual’ Theology, and the greatest of these is Spiritual Theology, which is based upon the others, but is ‘above them’ in so far as it is a branch of the science which deals, not with abstract statements of faith and objective laws of conduct but with the life in Christ itself, the reality of that union with Him, which all traditions in some form would assert as the meaning of our salvation.” —From the Preface
'Crucifixion-Resurrection' is the posthumous work of one of the great theological partnerships - Sir Edwyn Hoskyns, the pioneer of biblical theology in England, and Noel Davey, his student, in whom he found the ideal literary collaborator. It was conceived as the theological sequel to their first joint work, 'The Riddle of the New Testament', whose influence on generations of students has been incalculable. 'Crucifixion-Resurrection' is concerned with the theology and ethics of the New Testament. It offers a detailed exposition of the various New Testament interpretations of Christ's death, penetrating to the heart of the message Christianity has to offer the world, and plumbing spiritual de...
"The Pilgrim's Progress is the most popular work of Christian spirituality ever written in English, and perhaps the first novel in the language too." "John Bunyan's own life story has become part of the legend. The son of a tinker from Elstow near Bedford, he joined Cromwell's Parliamentarian army at the age of sixteen, and was plunged into a hotbed of radical religious ideas. In 1647 he returned and, helped by two books received as a wedding dowry, he began his own spiritual journey." "Bunyan's imagination would never let him rest, and he was immediately overcome by a vivid sense of his own sinfulness. He fell into a kind of madness, described brilliantly in Grace Abounding, but emerged as ...