Minding the Spirit: the study of Christian spirituality

Introduction : beginnings / Douglas Burton-Christie

1. study of Christian spirituality : contours and dynamics of a discipline / Sandra M. Schneiders

2. letter and the spirit : spirituality as an academic discipline / Bernard McGinn

3. Broadening the focus : context as a corrective lens in reading historical works in spirituality / Walter H. Principe

4. hermeneutical approach to the study of Christian spirituality / Sandra M. Schneiders

5. Spiritual discipline, discipline of spirituality : revisiting questions of definition and method / Mary Frohlich

6. role of practice in the study of Christian spirituality / Elizabeth Liebert

7. cost of interpretation : sacred texts and ascetic practice in desert spirituality / Douglas Burton-Christie

8. Spider as metaphor : attending to the symbol-making process in the academic discipline of spirituality / Belden C. Lane

9. Why bodies matter : a sociological reflection on spirituality and materiality / Meredith B. McGuire

10. language of inner experience in Christian mysticism / Bernard McGinn

11. turn to spirituality? : the relationship between theology and spirituality / J. Matthew Ashley

12. Extra Arcam Noe : criteria for Christian spirituality / Lawrence S. Cunningham

13. Spirituality as a resource for theology : the Holy Spirit in Augustine / Elizabeth A. Dreyer

14. Mozartian moment : reflections on medieval mysticism / Barbara Newman

15. Words that reach into the silence : mystical languages of unsaying / Mark S. Burrows

16. Lover without a name : spirituality and constructive Christology today / Mark McIntosh

17. Monsenor Romero, a Salvadoran and a Christian / Jon Sobrino

18. ecologically sensitive spirituality / Thomas Berry

19. Reading from the underside of selfhood : Dietrich Bonhoeffer and spiritual formation / Lisa E. Dahill

20. Lourdes : a pilgrim after all / E. Ann Matter

21. Christian spirituality as a way of living publicly : a dialectic of the mystical and prophetic / Philip F. Sheldrake

22. Beauty and terror / Don E. Saliers

23. "A wide and fleshly love" : images, imagination, and the study of Christian spirituality / Wendy M. Wright

24. Sound spirituality : on the formative expressive power of music for Christian spirituality / Don E. Saliers

25. "Raiding the inarticulate" : mysticism, poetics, and the unlanguageable / Mark S. Burrows

Afterword : emerging issues and new trajectories in the study of Christian spirituality.