Sacred Systems: Exploring Personal Transformation in the Western Christian Tradition - Softcover

Kyle, Eric J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620329646 ISBN 13: 9781620329641

Verlag: Pickwick Publications, 2013

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From early Jewish-Christian texts such as the Didache, which present well-defined catechetical programs, to contemporary authors such as Dallas Willard, who offer in-depth insights into the transformations of one's heart and soul, systematic texts on spiritual formation in the Western Christian tradition abound. These texts can offer ministers, researchers, and laypersons much clarity and guidance for their craft. However, the spiritual formation systems that we use are also always contextually influenced; such contextual factors may make them difficult to adapt to one's local work. Rather than turning to only a single text or community, then, it can be helpful for practitioners and theorists to look to a broader set of systematic presentations of spiritual formation. By turning to a group of specific individuals and communities in each era of Western Christian history, this book will help those working in this field to better understand how personal spiritual formation has been conceptualized and embodied. Such an exploration will help us not only to compile a more complete history of spiritual formation at the level of the individual but also to glean a better understanding of personal transformation so that we might engage this craft in more informed and systematic ways.

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Eric Kyle works in the fields of education and spiritual formation, and is the author of the books Living Spiritual Praxis: Foundations for Spiritual Formation Program Development; Sacred Systems: Exploring Personal Transformation in the Western Christian Tradition; and Spiritual Being & Becoming: Western Christian and Modern Scientific Views of Human Nature for Spiritual Formation.

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• Verlag: Pickwick Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1620329646
• ISBN 13: 9781620329641
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 330
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