Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
Revitalising Christian spiritual theology - drawing heavily on tradition (Augustine, Bernard) and creative spirits of our time - Samuel Becket, Patrick Kavanagh, Freud and Jung.
Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
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)