Sources of transformation
Subtitle: revitalising Christian spirituality
By: edited by Edward Howells and Peter Tyler
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781441125750
Subjects: Spirituality; Church renewal; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Bernard McGinn; title: Befriending the vacuum : transformation and the sources of ecclesial spirituality  -- James Alison; title: Humans as Imago Dei : mystical anthropology then and now  -- Bernard McGinn; title: 'Tolle, lege' : reading and discernment as a source of personal transformation  -- David Lonsdale; title: 'A transformative blending' : Anthony de Mello (1931-87) on the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius Loyola  -- Gerald O'Collins; title: Visionary women : from past icons to future inspiration  -- Bernadette Flanagan; title: Spiritual transformation in Augustine's On the trinity  -- Edward Howells; title: Augustinian anxiety and the creation of narrative in William of St Thierry  -- Jeremy Worthen; title: Attitudes to the body in fourteenth-century English mystical literature  -- Stefan Reynolds; title: Transformation in the Carmelite rule  -- Michael Plattig; title: Teresa of Avila's transformative strategies of embodiment in Meditations on the Song of Songs  -- Peter Tyler; title: From absurdity to apophaticism : re-reading Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot  -- David Torevell; title: Patrick Kavanagh : poet of the transformative power of the incarnation  -- Una Agnew; title: Reflexive and transformative subjectivity : authentic apirituality and a journey with incest  -- Michael O'Sullivan; title: A potential for transformation : gay men and the future of Christian spirituality -- Michael Bernard Kelly.