Spirituality old and new
Subtitle: recovering authentic spiritual life
By: Donald G. Bloesch.
Publisher: IVP Academic; Apollos
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Downers Grove, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780830828388
Subjects: Spirituality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Perduring types; title: Mentors and teachers; title: The legacy of pietism; title: Continuing questions; title: In quest of spirituality; title: Faith and spirituality; title: True spirituality; title: The crisis in spirituality; title: Types of spirituality; title: Mystical religion; title: Biblical religion; title: A new spiritual vision; title: Ideal types; title: Classical mysticism; title: The mystical experience; title: The God above God; title: The eternal and the temporal; title: Ascent to divinity; title: Call to the desert; title: The church within; title: The biblical-classical synthesis; title: Christian mysticism and gnosticism; title: Hallmarks of gnosticism; title: Differences from Christian mysticism; title: Biblical personalism; title: The sovereign, creator God; title: The divine-human encounter; title: The scandal of particularity; title: Word and Spirit; title: Salvation by grace; title: The paradoxical love of the cross; title: Holy worldliness; title: The struggle of prayer; title: The great commission; title: The new spirituality; title: Historical roots; title: The new metaphysics; title: Key concepts; title: Secular mysticism; title: Rebirth of the Gods; title: The New Age Movement; title: Trademarks of the New Age; title: Precursors and proponents; title: Salient symbols; title: A royal theology?; title: Worldviews in collision; title: Authority; title: Anthropology; title: Doctrine of God; title: Jesus Christ; title: Life and vocation; title: Faith, hope, and love; title: Prayer and action; title: Ecclesiology and eschatology; title: Life and faith.