Minding the Spirit
Minding the Spirit The birth of an academic discipline is a rare event. Inquiry and dialogue are the essence of this new discipline, as it paves the way toward a deeper understanding of what it means…
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Minding the Spirit
The birth of an academic discipline is a rare event. Inquiry and dialogue are the essence of this new discipline, as it paves the way toward a deeper understanding of what it means to be human within the Christian faith.The twenty-five essays in this volume, originally published in either the Christian Spirituality Bulletin or Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, offer groundbreaking explorations of Christian spirituality. Even more extraordinary is academia's acknowledgment that spirituality has scholarly as well as personal dimensions.
Topics addressed include the particular intellectual and methodological challenges presented by spirituality as an academic discipline, the Arranged under five broad headings, these essays create an insightful dialogue on the questions, methods, and critical approaches implemented by the discipline's top scholars.