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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Spirit and Presence | |
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Jesus and His Followers: God's Abiding Presence | |
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The Spirituality of Jesus | |
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A Sense of Presence | |
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The Inheritance from Israel | |
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The Abode of God | |
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God's Presence in Christ | |
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The Legacy of Judaism | |
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The First Christians: Religious Rivalry and the Quest for Wisdom | |
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The Fisher of Sheep | |
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The Thirteenth Apostle | |
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James the Just | |
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The Human Milieu | |
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Varieties of Jewish Spirituality | |
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Jewish Monasticism | |
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Early Christian Pluralism | |
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The Art of Life | |
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Early Christian Wisdom | |
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Fire on Earth: Charism and Crisis in the Early Church | |
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Come the End: Millennial Illusions and Delusions | |
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Charismatic Gifts: The Lure of the Exotic | |
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Seeking Signs and Wonders: The Lure of the Miraculous | |
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A Charismatic Crisis in Corinth | |
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The Role of Prophecy in the Early Church | |
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The Future of Prophecy: Montanism | |
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Tertullian: The Wasp of Carthage | |
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Charisms in Crisis | |
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Martyrs: The Seed of the Church | |
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The Presence of Christ in the Death of His Saints | |
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Early Martyrs: The Birth Pangs of Christianity | |
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Preserving the "Acts" of the Martyrs | |
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Women of Faith | |
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The Cult of the Martyrs | |
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Seeds of Dissension | |
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The Donatist Crisis | |
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Church Militant | |
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The Circumcellions: Downward Christian Soldiers | |
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Ordinary Faith and Spiritual Ferment | |
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Ordinary Spirituality in the Early Church | |
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Word and Worship | |
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The Evolution of Ministry: Christians in the World | |
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Women and Children: Towards Christian Equality | |
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The Church and Slavery | |
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The Gnostic Crisis: The Threat of Spiritual Elitism | |
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Marcion: The Son of Satan | |
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The Apologists: Defenders of the Faith | |
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Alexandria: Cradle of Theology and Mysticism | |
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Philo Judaeus | |
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Alexandrian Christianity: The Gnostic Masters | |
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Clement of Alexandria: The Pedagogue | |
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Christian Spirituality in the Late Empire | |
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Towards a New Age | |
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The Desert and the City | |
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Alexandria's Legacy | |
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Antioch: The Letter and the Spirit | |
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The Appeal of Arianism | |
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Athanasius: "Old Immortality" | |
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Desert Dwellers: The Emergence of Monasticism | |
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The Great Cappadocians | |
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Evagrius Ponticus | |
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The Legacy of Christian Cappadocia | |
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The Age of Augustine | |
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Manichaeism: Darkness from the East | |
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The New Asceticism | |
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Pilgrims and Relics | |
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Western Monasticism and the Ascetical Spirit | |
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Martin of Tours: Soldier and Saint | |
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Paulinus of Nola: Ascetical Gentleman | |
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The Problem with Priscillian | |
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The Perils of Pelagius | |
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Women's Spirituality | |
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Augustine and His Mother | |
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The Son of Tears | |
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Augustine the Mystic | |
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The End of the Golden Age | |
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Dark Ages: New Light in the West | |
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A Gospel Life: The Rule of Augustine | |
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A Prophetic Way of Life | |
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Ordinary Asceticism | |
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The Benedictine Inheritance | |
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The Patriarch | |
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The Benedictine Form of Life | |
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Light in the North: Patrick of Ireland | |
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The Fugitive | |
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Ordinary Spirituality | |
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Troubles in the East: Christological Controversies | |
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Cyril and Nestorius | |
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From the World's Two Ends: Greeks and Celts | |
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The Jesus Prayer | |
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The Great Synthesis: "Dionysius the Areopagite" | |
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The Negative Way: "Unknowing" God | |
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The Affirmative Way: Art as Sacrament | |
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Maximus the Confessor | |
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Pope Gregory the Great | |
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Celtic Monks and Missionaries | |
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St. David: The Apostle of Wales | |
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The Great Invasion | |
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Bride of Christ | |
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A Passion for God | |
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The Rebirth of Christendom | |
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The Carolingian Renaissance | |
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Alcuin: The Heritage of English Monasticism | |
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John Scottus Eriugena: The Pride of Ireland | |
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Britain: The Parting of the Ways | |
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The Synod of Whitby | |
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Benedictine Evangelization and Agrarian Reform | |
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Early English Spirituality | |
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Alfred: Greatness in England | |
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Darkness in the East | |
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The Rise of Islam | |
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The Image Breakers | |
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The Second Assault | |
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Spiritual Reform and Military Conquest | |
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The Misfortunes of the Papacy | |
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The Year 1000: Millennialism Redux | |
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The Abbey of Cluny and Church Reform | |
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The Return of the Hermits | |
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The New Puritanism: St. Peter Damian | |
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The Abbey of Bec and the Norman Conquest | |
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Reform from Within: The New Popes | |
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The Coming of the White Monks | |
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Molesmes and Citeaux: Saintly Abbots | |
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New Life: The Vita Apostolica | |
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The New Age and Its Spirituality | |
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Warriors of Christ: The Crusades | |
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Schism and Contemplation | |
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Spiritual Explosion | |
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Bernard of Clairvaux: Last of the Fathers | |
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The Cistercian Kingdom of Love | |
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Aelred of Rievaulx: "God Is Friendship" | |
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The Matter of Women | |
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Queens and Abbesses: Uppity Women of the Twelfth Century | |
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Hildegard of Bingen: The Sibyl of the Rhine | |
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The Cistercian Abbesses | |
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Vita Activa, Vita Contemplativa: Finding a Balance | |
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The Canons of Premontre | |
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The Canons of St. Victor: Theology and Mysticism | |
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The New Millennialism: Apocalypse Revisited | |
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Vita Apostolica Redux: Enthusiasm, Excess, and Reaction | |
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The Golden Age | |
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The Decline and Fall of the Celtic Church | |
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Innocent III: Vicar of Christ | |
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The Coming of the Friars | |
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Dominican Women | |
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Francis: The Poor Christ of Assisi | |
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Clare of Assisi: Sister Moon | |
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Anthony of Padua: The Teacher | |
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Bonaventure: The Seraphic Doctor | |
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The Flowers of St. Francis | |
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The Mystical Revolution of the Fourteenth Century | |
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Women of God | |
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The German Women Mystics | |
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Reaction: The Case of Marguerite Porete | |
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Meister Eckhart: Master of Mystics | |
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The Birth of God | |
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Jacopone da Todi: Mystical Troubadour | |
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Catherine the Greater | |
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Catherine and the Pope | |
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The Beginning of the End | |
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The Autumn of Christendom | |
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Flemish Mysticism | |
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The English Mystics: Love and Unknowing | |
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Heat, Sweetness, and Song: Richard Rolle | |
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The Cloud and the Ladder | |
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The Anonymous Anchorite at St. Julian's | |
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The Would-Be Saint: Margery Kempe | |
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The Fall of the East | |
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Christian Soldiers: The March of Folly | |
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The Hesychast Controversy | |
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Athos: God's Holy Mountain | |
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St. Gregory Palamas: Champion of Orthodoxy | |
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The Experience of God | |
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New Rome | |
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Action versus Contemplation | |
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The Emergent Lay Spirit | |
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Dismemberment and Rebirth | |
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The Death of Hus | |
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The Maid of Orleans | |
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The Witchcraft Mania | |
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The Movement towards Reform | |
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The Wise Fool: Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa | |
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Coincidentia Oppositorum | |
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The Rebirth of Humanism | |
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Catherine of Genoa: The Nurse | |
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Savonarola: The Meddlesome Friar | |
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The Changing Tides of Favor | |
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Fracture and Reform: Protestant versus Catholic | |
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Revolt and Revolution | |
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The Righteousness of God | |
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Word and Spirit | |
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The Swiss Reform: Zwingli and Bullinger | |
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John Calvin: The Mystical Theocrat | |
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Calvin's Spirituality | |
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The Reformation in France | |
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The Radical Reformation | |
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Radical Spirituality: The Inner Light | |
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Body and Soul | |
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Schism, Persecution, and Catholic Reform | |
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Cromwell and the Carthusians | |
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Catholic Reaction: The Pilgrimages of Grace | |
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Efforts at Catholic Continuity | |
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Catholic Reformation: The Council of Trent | |
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Spiritual Exercises: The New Way | |
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Catholic Reform in Spain | |
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Inigo de Loyola: Mortal Honor and the Glory of God | |
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The Society of Jesus | |
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Teresa of Jesus: The Carmelite Reform Movement | |
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Little John of the Cross of Christ | |
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Holy Fray Juan | |
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Spiritual Doctor | |
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Houses Divided: From the New World to Enlightenment | |
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Protestant and Catholic | |
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The New World: Conquest and Expansion | |
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Europe Divided: Gallicanism | |
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Madame Acarie and Her Circle | |
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Pierre Berulle: The "Other" Cardinal | |
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Francis de Sales and Jane-Frances de Chantal | |
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Monsieur Vincent: Champion of the Poor | |
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The Jansenism Controversies | |
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Reconciling Opposites: The Ministry of Bossuet | |
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The Rise of German Pietism | |
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The Survival of Mysticism | |
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The Anglican Inheritance | |
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Puritan Reaction | |
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The Puritan Spirit | |
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Radical Dissent: Baptists and Quakers | |
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A Gentle Warming of the Heart: The Emergence of Methodism | |
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The Enlightenment: Reason versus Revelation | |
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Progress and Reaction | |
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Revolution and the Decline of Religion | |
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Recovery and Outreach | |
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Orthodox Spirituality | |
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The Liberal Spirit | |
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Germany: The Return to Orthodoxy | |
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England: Retreat and Revival | |
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The Oxford Movement and the Road to Rome | |
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Churches in the Wilderness | |
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The Millennial Spirit | |
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More Signs and Wonders | |
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The Rise and Fall of Modernism | |
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The Achievement | |
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The Twentieth Century: Crises and Renewal | |
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In Search of Fundamentals | |
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New Beginnings | |
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Spiritual Accents: West and East | |
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Ecumenism: From Competition to Cooperation | |
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Post-Conciliar Spiritual Trends | |
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Emancipation and Liberation: Christian Women | |
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Latin America: The Sleeping Giant | |
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Civil Rights and the Peace Movement | |
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Witnesses to Change: Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Merton | |
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A New Pentecost: The Charismatic Movement | |
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Sacred vs. Secular: New Religious Movements | |
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New Age Movements | |
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The Quest for Wholeness | |
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"Back to the Earth!" | |
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Eco-Spirituality: The Legacy of E. F. Schumacher | |
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Glasnost and Sobornost | |
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Transition | |
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The Third Millennium: Darkness before Dawn | |
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Ominous Prelude: 11 September 2001 | |
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The Promise of Ecumenism | |
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Decline and Growth | |
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Religion vs. Spirituality | |
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Saving the World | |
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Spirituality for a Possible Future | |
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Six Characteristics | |
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Epilogue | |
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Ever New Frontiers | |
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Notes | |
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Resources | |
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Index | |