The Essential Spirituality Handbook
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2009
288 pages
978-0-7648-6233-5 (ISBN)
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The Essential Handbook series provides a concise resource for understanding and practicing your faith. The Essential Spirituality Handbook presents the foundations of Catholic spirituality in five sections. Beginning with the theological understanding of the term spirituality, Wendy Wright presents an accessible approach to prayer, virtues, discernment, and satisfaction in living a spiritual life. Readers will find Dr. Wright an excellent guide through the history of Catholic traditions in spirituality.
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Wendy M. Wright, PhD, is a professor of theology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, holding the John C. Kenefick Faculty Chair in the Humanities.
She teaches graduate studies in ministry in Creighton's Christian Spirituality master's program and the Academy for Spiritual Formation. Her work has focused on the Salesian spiritual tradition founded by Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal.
Dr. Wright concentrates on the areas of history of spirituality, family spirituality, spiritual direction, and women and spirituality.
She teaches graduate studies in ministry in Creighton's Christian Spirituality master's program and the Academy for Spiritual Formation. Her work has focused on the Salesian spiritual tradition founded by Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal.
Dr. Wright concentrates on the areas of history of spirituality, family spirituality, spiritual direction, and women and spirituality.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Section One: Spirituality in the Catholic Tradition
- 1. The Use of the Term "Spirituality" in the Contemporary World
- 2. A Theological Understanding of the Term
- 3. Spirituality as Constitutive of the Human Condition
- Section Two: The Christic Pattern of the Catholic Spiritual Life
- 1. Human Beings Created in the Divine Image and Likeness, But Wounded
- 2. Jesus the Paradigm: Death and Resurrection
- 3. Classic Ways of Imaging the Spiritual Life
- Purgation, Illumination, and Union
- Ascent
- Journey and Pilgrimage
- Spiritual Warfare
- Nuptial and Marriage
- Darkness and Unknowing
- Section Three: Belonging to the Mystical Body
- 1. The Vine and the Branches: The Church as Mystical Body
- 2. Scripture and Tradition
- Sixth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Seventeenth Century
- Nineteenth Century
- Twentieth Century
- 3. Common Prayer
- Common Eucharistic Prayer
- The Liturgical Year
- Daily Common Prayer: Liturgy of the Hours
- 4. The Communion of Saints
- The Virgin Mary
- Saints as Models and Intercessors
- The Catholic Imagination
- Section Four: Walking the Way
- 1. The Practice of the Catholic Spiritual Life
- 2. Practice of the Virtues
- 3. Practices of Prayer
- Vocal Prayer
- Mental Prayer
- Lectio Divina
- Imaginative Meditation
- Examen
- Contemplative Prayer
- Mysticism
- Visual Imagery and Imageless Prayer
- Music and Prayer
- Writing as Prayer
- Study as Prayer
- 4. Practices of Discernment
- Spiritual Guidance
- Discerning Desire
- Discernment and the Dark Night of the Soul
- 5. Companions on the Way
- 6. Practices of Presence
- The Real Presence
- Silence, Solitude, and Sabbath Observance
- Presence to Others
- 7. Embodied Practices
- Sacred Gestures
- Fasting
- Pilgrimage
- Labyrinth Walking
- Devotional Practices
- The Rosary
- Processions, Festivals, and Sacred Theatre
- Novenas
- First Fridays and First Saturdays
- Sacramentals
- Section Five: Charisms in the Body of Christ
- 1. Offices/Gifts
- 2. Traditions of Spirituality
- Martyrs
- Desert Traditions and Ascetic Martyrdom
- Monastic Traditions
- Mendicant Traditions
- Franciscans
- Dominicans
- Third Order and Lay Movements
- Carmelites
- Apostolic Traditions
- Missionary Traditions
- Contemporary American Spiritual Traditions
