Sources of Transformation
Revitalising Christian Spirituality
Published on 27. December 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-4411-2575-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
There is here no intellectual pirouetting - this is the theology of experience and of existential openness to transcendence.
Reviews / Votes
This book is well worth the time and effort it takes to read and consider the analyses being offered... Sources of Transformation does well in what it sets out to do. -- The Furrow 'The essays are of excellent quality and, written by eminent theologians such as James Alison, Bernard McGinn, David Lonsdale, Bernadette Flanagan and several others, they demand serious attention.' -- CR Quarterly Review Attempting to reflect the variety in Christian approaches to transformation, this book is an eclectic collection of essays...Its diversity means that this collection is useful for anyone who wishes to broaden their appreciation of the variety of sources that might be used for transformative effect as well as some transformative approaches to these sources. -- Tara K. Soughers * Reviews in Religion & Theology *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
362 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-2575-0 (9781441125750)
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Persons
Dr Edward Howells is Lecturer in Christian Spirituality at Heythrop College, University of London. Peter Tyler is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of Pastoral Theology at St Mary's University College, Twickenham, UK. Previous publications include The Return to the Mystical: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Teresa of Avila and the Christian Mystical Tradition (Continuum, 2011) and The Pursuit of the Soul: Psychoanalysis, Soul-making and the Christian Tradition (T & T Clark, 2016).
Content
Introduction \ 1. Befriending the Vacuum by James Alison (University of Oxford) \ 2. Humans as Imago Dei by Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) \ 3. Tolle Lege by David Lonsdale (Heythrop College, London) \ 4. Visionary Women by Bernadette Flanagan (All Hallows College, Dublin) \ 5. The Spiritual Exercises by Gerald O'Collins (Gregorian, Rome and St Mary's UC, Strawberry Hill) \ 6. Kavanagh Poet of the Imagination by Una Agnew (Milltown Institute, Dublin) \ 7. Spiritual Transformation in Augustine by Edward Howells (Heythrop) \ 8. Transformation in the Carmelite Rule by Michael Plattig (University of Minster) \ 9. From Absurdity to Apophaticism by David Torevell (Liverpool Hope) \ 10. Teresa of Avila's Strategies of Embodiment by Peter Tyler (St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill) \ 11. Augustinian Anxiety by Jeremy Worthen (University of Kent) \ 12. The Body by Stefan Reynolds (Heythrop College) \ 13. Unlikely Prophets of an Erotic God by Michael Kelly (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia) \ 14. Authentic Spirituality and a Journey with Incest by Michael O'Sullivan (Milltown Institute and All Hallows College, Dublin City University)