{"product_id":"minding-the-spirit-elizabeth-a-dreyer-9780801880773","title":"Minding the Spirit: The Study of Christian Spirituality","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe birth of an academic discipline is a rare event. Even more extraordinary is academia's acknowledgment that spirituality has scholarly as well as personal dimensions. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe twenty-five essays in this volume, originally published in either the \u003ci\u003eChristian Spirituality Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eSpiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality\u003c\/i\u003e, offer groundbreaking explorations of Christian spirituality. 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. Topics addressed include the particular intellectual and methodological challenges presented by spirituality as an academic discipline, the self-implicating nature of the study of spirituality, historical perspectives, theological implications, healing as a function of spirituality, and the relationship between aesthetics and spirituality--art and spirit. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScholars working on either broad or focused themes in spirituality will benefit from this clear and accessible presentation of the salient aspects of the discipline. In their insight and historical and methodological content, these essays provide valuable tools for students and teachers of spirituality and related fields, in their insight and historical and methodological content. This volume speaks to all who practice and study spirituality from any religious or secular perspective, encouraging reflective and open dialogue with one of humanity's major religious traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: J. Matthew Ashley, Thomas Berry, Mark S. Burrows, Douglas Burton-Christie, Lawrence S. Cunningham, Lisa E. Dahill, Elizabeth A. Dreyer, Mary Frohlich, Belden C. Lane, Elizabeth Liebert, E. Ann Matter, Bernard McGinn, Meredith B. McGuire, Mark McIntosh, Barbara Newman, Walter H. Principe, Don E. Saliers, Sandra M. Schneiders, Philip F. Sheldrake, Jon Sobrino, Wendy M. Wright\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth A. Dreyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801880777\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801880773\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 6.78w x 1.02d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/18\/2005 pg. 57","brand":"Elizabeth A. Dreyer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926140223743,"sku":"9780801880773","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_76ef42b9-2b3f-4407-81af-9f2fd8937316.jpg?v=1681081423","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/minding-the-spirit-elizabeth-a-dreyer-9780801880773","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}