Christian spirituality : God's presence through the ages /
Woods, Richard,1941-
Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-307) and index.
Jesus and his followers : God's abiding presence -- The first Christians : religious rivalry and the quest for wisdom -- Fire on earth : charism and crisis in the early church -- Martyrs : the seed of the church -- Ordinary faith and spiritual ferment -- The desert and the city -- The age of Augustine -- Dark Ages : new light in the West -- From the world's two ends : Greeks and Celts -- The rebirth of Christendom -- Spiritual reform and military conquest -- Spiritual explosion -- The golden age -- The mystical revolution of the fourteenth century -- The autumn of Christendom -- Dismemberment and rebirth -- Fracture and reform : Protestant versus Catholic -- Schism, persecution, and Catholic reform -- Houses divided : from the New World to enlightenment -- Progress and reaction -- The twentieth century : crisis and renewal -- The third millennium : darkness before dawn.
Church history.
Spirituality.