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Informationen zum Autor Karen E. Smith, PhD, is an award-winning professor of literacy education at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Prior to this, she was a teacher in both English and French immersion settings K-12, a school division music coordinator K-12, and a principal. She is the author of over one-hundred journal articles, three texts, and four children's books. She has served as managing editor of English Quarterly and currently serves as co-editor of Classmate (Manitoba Association of Teachers of English journal). She provides editorial services for many noted journals/publication houses. She has held research grants with many foundations and recently has turned her attention to research on literacy, creativity, and imagination connected to nature. She serves on the boards of Nature Manitoba and the Canadian Network for Ocean Education where she supports the study of nature literacy. Klappentext The SCM Core Text on Christian Spirituality brings together biblical! historical and pastoral reflections on the nature of Christian spirituality within community. It is written for second and third year university students who are studying Christian spirituality as an academic discipline! and would be useful for practical theologians who are reflecting on theology and practice within the Christian church! as well as for pastors and persons in a local church who want to explore the contours of Christian spirituality within their community of faith. Rather than list a series of specific activities such as praying! fasting! meditating etc! this book seeks to examine spirituality within the context of relationship and community. It also seeks to avoid separating spirituality from doctrine! and works towards presenting Christian spirituality as an ongoing dialogue between doctrine and experience. The book also asserts that Christian spirituality must reflect the idea of search and throughout the textbook we are introduced to a variety of Christian writers in order to examine the multifarious nature of search within the Christian tradition. These three themes! belief! search and relationship are woven together and addressed throughout. ...
