Spiritual Theology: The Theology of Yesterday for Spiritual Help Today

by Diogenes Allen

Book Overview

The author turns to the great teachers of the past-Augustine, Maximus the Confessor, Bonaventure, Hugh of St. Victor, Calvin and Luther, George Herbert-to recover a spirituality that is rich with the doctrines and disciplines of theology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561011304
• ISBN13: 9781561011308
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 6.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

What would it be like to live every moment of one's life with an awareness of God?

With this question, Diogenes Allen began his search into the depths of Christian spirituality. What he found resulted in a brief but very powerful overview of the history of spiritual theology. Allen probes the insights of the Bible and such spiritual masters as St. Anthony and the desert fathers, Augustine, Basil the Great, Bonaventure, Cassian, Evagrius, Francis of Assissi, Gregory of Nyssa, George Herbert, Julian of Norwich, Maximus the Confessor, Teresa of Avila, and Simone Weil. Perhaps the best concise spiritual theology written, tying ancient wisdom to the needs of today.