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Preface | |
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Spiritual Writers of the Early Church | |
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The Apostolic Fathers | |
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The Two Ways and Simplicity | |
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Martyrdom in the Early Church | |
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Gnosis -- True and False | |
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St. Irenaeus of Lyons | |
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The Influence of Alexandria | |
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Clement of Alexandria | |
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Origen | |
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Origen's Spirituality | |
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The Church in North Africa | |
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Eastern Monasticism | |
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Origins and Developments | |
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Early Monastic Writings | |
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Sayings of the Fathers | |
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The Cappadocian Fathers | |
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St. Gregory of Nyssa | |
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Evagrius Ponticus, Pseudo-Macarius, and Pseudo-Dionysius | |
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The Macarian Homilies | |
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Pseudo-Dionysius | |
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The Antiochene School -- St. John Chrysostom | |
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Later Monastic Developments | |
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The Syriac Tradition | |
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Early Western Spirituality | |
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Western Asceticism -- St. Ambrose and St. Jerome | |
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St. Jerome | |
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Dissenting Voices | |
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St. Augustine and his Significance | |
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Western Monasticism -- Early Traces | |
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Monasticism in Gaul -- John Cassian | |
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The Rule of St. Benedict -- Benedictine Spirituality | |
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Early Middle Ages | |
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St. Gregory the Great | |
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Gregory's Spirituality | |
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Celtic Spirituality | |
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Benedictine Developments | |
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The Carolingian Renewal | |
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Anarchy and Reform | |
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The New Orders | |
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Spiritual Writers of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries | |
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Benedictine Spiritual Writers | |
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St. Anselm | |
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St. Hildegard and St. Elisabeth of Schonau | |
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Cistercian Spiritual Writers | |
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St. Bernard of Clairvaux | |
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William of St. Thierry | |
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Aelred of Rievaulx | |
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Conclusion | |
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High Middle Ages -- New Trends and Currents | |
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New Developments | |
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The Victorine School | |
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Hugh of St. Victor | |
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Richard of St. Victor | |
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Lay Spirituality in the Twelfth Century | |
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The Rise of the Mendicants | |
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The Franciscans -- Franciscan Spirituality | |
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Franciscan Theologians and Mystics | |
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The Dominicans -- Dominican Spirituality | |
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The Beguine Movement | |
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Beguine Mystics | |
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The Mystics of Helfta | |
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Dante: A Mystical Poet | |
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Conclusion | |
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Late Middle Ages | |
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Darkening Times | |
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The Rhineland Mystics | |
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Meister Eckhart | |
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John Tauler | |
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Henry Suso | |
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Theologia Germanica | |
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John Ruusbroec | |
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St. Catherine of Siena | |
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The English Mystics | |
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Richard Rolle | |
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The Cloud of Unknowing | |
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Walter Hilton | |
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Julian of Norwich | |
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The "Devotio Moderna" | |
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John Gerson | |
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Popular Piety | |
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The Humanist Renaissance | |
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Conclusion | |
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Byzantine and Early Protestant Spirituality | |
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Byzantine Spirituality | |
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Byzantine Monasticism | |
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Symeon the New Theologian | |
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Byzantine Liturgy and Iconography | |
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St. Gregory Palamas and Athonite Hesychasm | |
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Early Protestant Spirituality | |
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Martin Luther | |
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Johann Arndt and his True Christianity | |
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Jacob Boehme | |
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Reformed Spirituality -- John Calvin | |
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Anabaptist Spirituality | |
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Conclusion | |
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Post-Reformation Spirituality | |
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Sixteenth-Century Spain | |
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St. Ignatius of Loyola and Jesuit Spirituality | |
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Jesuit Spirituality | |
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Methods of Prayer -- Spiritual Exercises | |
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Early Spanish Mysticism | |
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St. Teresa of Avila | |
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St. John of the Cross | |
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The Italian School | |
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Conclusion | |
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French Spirituality in the Seventeenth Century | |
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Spiritual Revival in France | |
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The Abstract School of Mysticism | |
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St. Francis de Sales -- Salesian Spirituality | |
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Berulle and the French School | |
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The French School After Berulle | |
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Jansenism and Quietism | |
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Jansenism | |
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Quietism | |
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French Jesuit School | |
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French Missionaries | |
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Conclusion | |
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English Spirituality | |
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Post-Reformation Catholic Writers | |
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Anglican Spirituality | |
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Puritan Spirituality | |
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George Fox and The Friends | |
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John Wesley and Methodist Spirituality | |
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Continental Pietism | |
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Conclusion | |
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Post-Enlightenment Spirituality | |
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Historical Background | |
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Orthodox Renaissance in Greece and Russia | |
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St. Alphonsus Liguori | |
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France After the Revolution | |
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The Oxford Movement | |
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John Henry Newman | |
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Religious Developments in the United States | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Twentieth Century | |
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The Pentecostal Movement | |
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Ecumenical Spirituality | |
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The Age of the Church | |
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The Revival of Mysticism | |
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Friedrich von Hugel | |
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European Spiritual Writers | |
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Columba Marmion | |
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer | |
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Caryll Houselander | |
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | |
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C.S. Lewis | |
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American Spiritual Writers | |
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Thomas Merton | |
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Dorothy Day | |
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The Spirituality of Vatican Council II | |
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Epilogue | |
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Selected Bibliography | |
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Index | |