St. John of the Cross OCT

Zusatztext This book is an excellent introduction for anyone interested in understanding the spirituality of John of the Cross or the Carmelite way. It is scholarly but not academic in style! with a detailed bibliography to encourage further study. Informationen zum Autor Peter Tyler is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of Pastoral Theology at St Mary's University College! Twickenham! UK. Previous publications include St John of the Cross - Outstanding Christian Thinker (Continuum 2010)! Sources of Transformation: Revitalising Christian Spirituality (edited with Edward Howells) (Continuum 2010) and The Return to the Mystical: Ludwig Wittgenstein! Teresa of Avila and the Christian Mystical Tradition (Continuum 2011). Klappentext Here is as clear an exposition as it is possible to find of the life and teachings of the diminutive Carmelite Friar whose influence has been so very profound.The clearest exposition of the life and teachings of the diminutive Carmelite Friar whose influence has been so very profound. Zusammenfassung Peter Tyler endeavours to represent St John of the Cross in the truest light! covering his life from the angles of John as Theologian! as Mystic! Psychologist! and Artist. Tyler draws parallels! at times uncomfortable! between the age of disruption and and change in the church during which St John wrote! and our current age. In so doing he makes the case for this controversial! but largely misunderstood! figure to be an important guide for practical theology today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; The Life; The Mystical Doctrine; The Influence of St John of the Cross Today.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Payne, Peter Tyler
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2010
• EAN: 9780826475619
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-7561-9
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Outstanding Christian Thinkers; Outstanding Christian Thinkers
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology