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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 | |