Spiritual Theology: The Theology of Yesterday for Spiritual Help Today
By Diogenes Allen.
Description
Often spirituality today is isolated from church teaching and doctrine, as in Joseph Campbell's treatment of myth and the many forms of New Age theologies, but doctrine apart from the life of prayer is abstract and sterile. In Spiritual Theology Allen turns to the great teachers of the past―the church fathers, Augustine, Maximus the Confessor, Bonaventure, Hugh of St. Victor, Calvin and Luther, George Herbert―to recover a spirituality that is rich with the doctrines and disciplines of theology.Allen covers the great questions of the spiritual life: what is the Christian goal? what lead...
ISBN(s)
1561011304, 9781561011308
