Diogenes Allen

Spiritual Theology (eBook, ePUB)

The Theology of Yesterday for Spiritual Help Today

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The author turns to the great teachers of the past-Augustine, Maximus the Confessor, Bonaventure, Hugh of St. Victor, Calvin and Luther, George Herbert-to recover a spirituality that is rich with the doctrines and disciplines of theology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 169
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781561013395
• Artikelnr.: 53351042

Autorenporträt

Diogenes Allen is Stuart Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he taught for thirty-six years. He is both a Presbyterian minister and an Episcopal priest, presently serving as a priest associate at All Saints', Princeton, New Jersey. He has written fourteen books including 'Temptation', 'The Traces of God', 'Philosophy for Understanding Theology', 'Three Outsiders: Pascal, Kierkegaard, Simone Weil', and 'Christian Belief in a Postmodern World'.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction Chapter 2 What is Spiritual Theology? Chapter 3 The
Journey and the Goal Chapter 4 Conversion Chapter 5 Three Journeys to God
Chapter 6 The Eight Deadly Thoughts Chapter 7 Progress in the Spiritual
Life Chapter 8 Contemplation Chapter 9 The Book of Nature Chapter 10 The
Book of Scripture Chapter 11 Mystical Theology Chapter 12 Christian
Doctrine and the Spiritual Life