Sources of Transformation: Revitalising Christian Spirituality - Softcover

9781441125750: Sources of Transformation: Revitalising Christian Spirituality

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441125752 ISBN 13: 9781441125750

Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2010

A group of leading scholars has written a book arguing for the revitalisation of Christian spiritual traditions. Relying heavily on the spiritual genius of the great masters of the past - Augustine, Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Avila - this is also a book culturally attuned to men and women today. There are brilliant chapters on Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, and Tony de Mello, and on the value of past classics for present spiritual growth.

There is here no intellectual pirouetting - this is the theology of experience and of existential openness to transcendence.

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About the Author:

Dr Peter Tyler is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of Pastoral Theology at St Mary's University College, Twickenham, UK. Previous publications include St John of the Cross - Outstanding Christian Thinker (Continuum 2010), Sources of Transformation: Revitalising Christian Spirituality (edited with Edward Howells) (Continuum 2010) and The Return to the Mystical: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Teresa of Avila and the Christian Mystical Tradition (Continuum 2011).

Review:

'The essays are of excellent quality and, written by eminent theologians such as James Alison, Bernard McGinn, David Lonsdale, Bernadette Flanagan and several others, they demand serious attention.' (CR Quarterly Review)

This book is well worth the time and effort it takes to read and consider the analyses being offered... Sources of Transformation does well in what it sets out to do. (The Furrow)

'The essays are of excellent quality and, written by eminent theologians such as James Alison, Bernard McGinn, David Lonsdale, Bernadette Flanagan and several others, they demand serious attention.’ (Sanford Lakoff)

This book is well worth the time and effort it takes to read and consider the analyses being offered... Sources of Transformation does well in what it sets out to do. (Sanford Lakoff)

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