Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Part One: The Theology of Spirituality -- 1 Liturgy and Personal Devotion -- 2 The Theology of Christian Spirituality -- 3 Mysticism, Human and Divine -- 4 Prayer and Personality: Prayer as Primary Speech -- 5 Sociology and the Study of Spirituality -- 6 Media of Spirituality -- Part Two: The History of Spirituality -- I Introduction -- A Biblical Roots -- 1 The Old Testament -- 2 The New Testament -- B Philosophical Roots -- 1 Greek Philosophy, Wisdom Literature and Gnosis -- 2 Philo -- 3 Plotinus -- 4 Proclus -- II The Early Fathers -- 1 The Apostolic Fathers and Irenaeus -- 2 Tertullian and Cyprian -- 3 Clement of Alexandria -- 4 Origen -- 5 The Desert Fathers, Antony and Pachomius -- III The Latin Fathers -- 1 Ambrose -- 2 Jerome -- 3 Augustine -- 4 John Cassian -- 5 Benedict -- 6 John Scotus Eriugena -- IV The Eastern Fathers -- A Greek Writers from the Cappadocians to John of Damascus -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Cappadocians -- 3 Evagrius and Macarius -- 4 The Origins of the Jesus Prayer: Diadochus, Gaza, Sinai -- 5 Denys the Areopagite -- 6 Maximus the Confessor -- 7 The Spirituality of the Icon -- B The Syriac Tradition -- V Insular Traditions -- 1 Celtic Spirituality -- 2 The Anglo-Saxon Tradition -- VI The Eastern Tradition from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century -- A Greek -- 1 Symeon the New Theologian -- 2 The Hesychasts: Gregory of Sinai, Gregory Palamas, Nicolas Cabasilas -- 3 The Hesychast Renaissance -- B Russian -- VII The Medieval West -- A Monastic Spirituality -- 1 Gregory the Great -- 2 Anselm of Canterbury -- B The New Orders -- C Joachim of Fiore -- D The Mendicants -- 1 The Dominicans -- 2 The Franciscans -- E Italian Spiritual Writers -- 1 Dante Alighieri -- 2 Catherine of Siena -- 3 Catherine of Genoa.

F Teutonic Mysticism -- 1 The Rhineland Mystics -- 2 Ruysbroeck, à Kempis and the Theologia Deutsch -- 3 Nicholas of Cusa (Cusanus) -- G The English Mystics -- H Northern Humanists Before the Reform -- VIII The Modern World -- A The Protestant Reformation -- Introduction -- 1 Luther -- 2 Zwingli -- 3 The Anabaptists -- 4 Calvin -- Conclusion -- B The Catholic Reformation -- I Spain -- 1 Ignatius Loyola -- 2 Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross -- 3 Other Spanish Spiritual Writers -- II France -- 1 François de Sales -- 2 Bérulle and the 'French School' -- 3 Jansenism -- 4 Pascal -- 5 Fénelon and Quietism -- 6 Jean-Pierre de Caussade -- 7 Charles de Foucauld -- III English Roman Catholics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- C Later Protestant Spirituality -- 1 The Caroline Divines and the Cambridge Platonists -- 2 The Puritans -- 3 The Quakers -- 4 Continental Pietism -- 5 The Nonjurors and William Law -- 6 John Wesley and the Methodist Movement -- 7 The Evangelical Revival in the Church of England -- 8 The Catholic Revival in the Church of England -- 9 Kierkegaard -- 10 Some Patterns in American Protestantism -- 11 Black Worship -- IX Other Religions -- 1 Judaism -- 2 Islam -- 3 Hinduism -- 4 Buddhism -- 5 African Religion -- 6 Amerindian Spirituality -- X Current Spirituality -- 1 Orthodoxy -- 2 Roman Catholicism -- 3 Protestantism -- 4 Anglicanism -- 5 Ecumenical Spirituality -- 6 Pentecostals and the Charismatic Movement -- 7 Interplay with Other Religions -- Part Three: Pastoral Spirituality -- I Pastoral Applications of Spirituality -- 1 The Nature of Spiritual Development -- 2 The Nature of Spiritual Direction: Sacramental Confession -- 3 Group Prayer -- 4 Communities Old and New -- 5 Adaptation of Historic Spirituality for Today -- 6 Retreat -- 7 Spirituality and Social Justice -- 8 Prayer and Theological Reflection.

9 Christian Spirituality and Healing -- II Types of Spirituality -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names -- Index of Biblical References.