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Sources of transformation : revitalising Christian spirituality / edited by Edward Howells and Peter Tyler.

Contributor(s): Howells, Edward | Tyler, Peter
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; London : Continuum, 2010Description: xv, 203 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781441125750; 1441125752Subject(s): Spirituality -- History | Christian lifeBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Preface / Bernard McGinn -- Befriending the vacuum : transformation and the sources of ecclesial spirituality / James Alison -- Humans as Imago Dei : mystical anthropology then and now / Bernard McGinn -- 'Tolle, lege' : reading and discernment as a source of personal transformation / David Lonsdale -- 'A transformative blending' : Anthony de Mello (1931-87) on the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius Loyola / Gerald O'Collins -- Visionary women : from past icons to future inspiration / Bernadette Flanagan -- Spiritual transformation in Augustine's On the trinity / Edward Howells -- Augustinian anxiety and the creation of narrative in William of St Thierry / Jeremy Worthen -- Attitudes to the body in fourteenth-century English mystical literature / Stefan Reynolds -- Transformation in the Carmelite rule / Michael Plattig -- Teresa of Avila's transformative strategies of embodiment in Meditations on the Song of Songs / Peter Tyler -- From absurdity to apophaticism : re-reading Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot / David Torevell -- Patrick Kavanagh : poet of the transformative power of the incarnation / Una Agnew -- Reflexive and transformative subjectivity : authentic spirituality and a journey with incest / Michael O'Sullivan -- A potential for transformation : gay men and the future of Christian spirituality / Michael Bernard Kelly.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Bernard McGinn -- Befriending the vacuum : transformation and the sources of ecclesial spirituality / James Alison -- Humans as Imago Dei : mystical anthropology then and now / Bernard McGinn -- 'Tolle, lege' : reading and discernment as a source of personal transformation / David Lonsdale -- 'A transformative blending' : Anthony de Mello (1931-87) on the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius Loyola / Gerald O'Collins -- Visionary women : from past icons to future inspiration / Bernadette Flanagan -- Spiritual transformation in Augustine's On the trinity / Edward Howells -- Augustinian anxiety and the creation of narrative in William of St Thierry / Jeremy Worthen -- Attitudes to the body in fourteenth-century English mystical literature / Stefan Reynolds -- Transformation in the Carmelite rule / Michael Plattig -- Teresa of Avila's transformative strategies of embodiment in Meditations on the Song of Songs / Peter Tyler -- From absurdity to apophaticism : re-reading Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot / David Torevell -- Patrick Kavanagh : poet of the transformative power of the incarnation / Una Agnew -- Reflexive and transformative subjectivity : authentic spirituality and a journey with incest / Michael O'Sullivan -- A potential for transformation : gay men and the future of Christian spirituality / Michael Bernard Kelly.

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