Centuries of holiness
Subtitle: ancient spirituality refracted for a postmodern age
By: Richard Valantasis.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Christian life.; Spiritual life.; Holiness.
Table of contents: title: Conversion; title: Sanctification; title: Starting out; title: Incarnate living; title: Bodies; title: Discernment; title: Restoration; title: The memory of God; title: Vision of God, reign of God; title: Divinization; title: Revelation; title: Living in the present; title: The society of the Godly; title: The detriment of idealization; title: Knowing the mind of God; title: Communion; title: Hindrances; title: Reality; title: Divine indwelling; title: Reading the signs; title: Mortification reconsidered; title: Worldview; title: Confession; title: Holy dying; title: Disappointment; title: Striving; title: Oblation; title: Perfection; title: Ghostly converse; title: Ennui and steps; title: Virtues; title: Union with God; title: Ascetical eschatology; title: Mary, the mother of God; title: Progress; title: Empowerment; title: Thorns and impediments; title: Anticipated joy; title: Self-examination; title: Mystic communion; title: Habitual prayer; title: Assembling the social body; title: Cultivation and avoidance; title: Baptism; title: Concupiscence; title: Pride and humility; title: Embracing difference; title: Demons and ascetic evil; title: Praying the bodies; title: Sacraments and life; title: Ascetic confession; title: Utopia; title: Withdrawal; title: The divine mystery; title: Charting a way; title: Exercises; title: Living in community; title: Spiritual direction; title: Sodalities; title: Stages; title: Generosity and hospitality; title: Penance; title: Renunciation and reconstruction; title: The body transparent; title: Passions; title: Study and curiosity; title: The deadly sins; title: Attention; title: Engaging the tradition; title: Seeing double; title: Sin; title: Playfulness; title: Emotional ecology; title: Holy energy; title: Holiness of resources; title: Temptation; title: Consolations; title: Aridity; title: Discerning the divine mind; title: Discernment of spirits; title: A living God; title: Illumination; title: From discourse to affection; title: Affective contemplation; title: Divine virtue; title: Representation; title: Receiving the mystery; title: Singularity and integration; title: World and self; title: Rest; title: Faith, hope, and love; title: Humility; title: Simultaneity; title: Contemplation; title: Transparency; title: Visions of deification; title: Prayer beyond words; title: Divine energy; title: Recollection, silence, and ignorance; title: The final restoration.