God seekers
Subtitle: twenty centuries of Christian spiritualities
By: Richard H. Sshmidt.
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 0978802828408
Subjects: Spirituality -- History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Irenaeus (c. 130-c. 200) : early Christian spirituality; title: Origen (c. 185-c. 254) : Alexandrian spirituality; title: Antony (c. 251-355) : the Desert Dathers; title: Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-c. 394) : the Cappadocians; title: Augustine (354-430) : the birth of western spirituality; title: Patrick (c. 390-c. 460) : Celtic spirituality; title: Benedict (c. 480-547) : western monasticism; title: Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022) : experiencing the spirit; title: Anselm (1033/4-1109) : medieval spirituality I; title: Bernard of clairvaux (1090-1153) : medieval spirituality II; title: Francis of Assisi (1181/2-1226) : the Mendicants; title: Gregory Palamas (1296-1359) : Hesychasm; title: Julian of Norwich (1342-c. 1420) : the English mystics; title: Martin Luther (1483-1546) : Reformation I; title: Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) : the Jesuits; title: John Calvin (1509-1564) : Reformation II; title: Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) : the Spanish mystics; title: George Herbert (1593-1633) : Anglican spirituality; title: John Bunyan (1628-1688) : the non-conformists; title: Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751) : acceptance; title: John and Charles Wesley (1703-1791; 1707-1788) : Methodism; title: Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) : the spirituality of paradox; title: R.A. Torrey (1856-1928) : Fundamentalism; title: Amy Carmichael (1867-1951) : the spirituality of missions; title: Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897) : spiritual childhood; title: Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945) : martyrdom; title: Donald Gee (1891-1966) : Pentecostal spirituality; title: Dorothy Day (1897-1980) : the Catholic Worker Movement; title: Thomas Merton (1915-1968) : solitude; title: Madeleine l'Engle (1918-2007) : narrative spirituality; title: John S. Mbiti (b. 1931) : African Christian spirituality; title: Rosemary Radford Ruether (b. 1936) : feminist spirituality.