Minding the Spirit: The Study of Christian Spirituality (Paperback)

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Beginnings
Part I: Spirituality as an Academic Discipline: Foundations and Methods
Chapter 1. The Study of Christian Spirituality: Contours and Dynamics of a Discipline
Chapter 2. The Letter and the Spirit: Spirituality as an Academic Discipline
Chapter 3. Broadening the Focus: Context as a Corrective Lens in Reading Historical Works in Spirituality
Chapter 4. A Hermeneutical Approach to the Study of Christian Spirituality
Part II: The Self-Implicating Nature of the Study of Spirituality
Chapter 5. Spiritual Discipline, Discipline of Spirituality: Revisiting Questions of Definition and Method
Chapter 6. The Role of Practice in the Study of Christian Spirituality
Chapter 7. The Cost of Interpretation: Sacred Texts and Ascetic Practice in Desert Spirituality
Chapter 8. Spider as Metaphor: Attending to the Symbol-Making Process in the Academic Discipline of Spirituality
Chapter 9. Why Bodies Matter: A Sociological Reflection on Spirituality and Materiality
Chapter 10. The Language of Inner Experience in Christian Mysticism
Part III: Interpreting the Tradition: Historical and Theological Perspectives
Chapter 11. The Turn to Spirituality? The Relationship between Theology and Spirituality
Chapter 12. Extra Arcam Noe: Criteria for Christian Spirituality
Chapter 13. Spirituality as a Resource for Theology: The Holy Spirit in Augustine
Chapter 14. The Mozartian Moment: Reflections on Medieval Mysticism
Chapter 15. Words that Reach into the Silence: Mystical Languages of Unsaying
Chapter 16. Lover without a Name: Spirituality and Constructive Christology Today
Part IV: Spirituality and Healing
Chapter 17. Monsenor Romero, a Salvadoran and a Christian
Chapter 18. An Ecologically Sensitive Spirituality
Chapter 19. Reading from the Underside of Selfhood: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Spiritual Formation
Chapter 20. Lourdes: A Pilgrim After All
Chapter 21. Christian Spirituality as a Way of Living Publicly: A Dialectic of the Mystical and Prophetic
Part V: Spirituality and Aesthetics
Chapter 22. Beauty and Terror
Chapter 23. "A Wide and Fleshly Love": Images, Imagination, and the Study of Christian Spirituality
Chapter 24. Sound Spirituality: On the Formative Expressive Power of Music for Christian Spirituality
Chapter 25. "Raiding the Inarticulate": Mysticism, Poetics, and the Unlanguageable
Afterword: Emerging Issues and New Trajectories in the Study of Christian Spirituality
Further Reading
Contributors