recovering authentic spiritual life Bloesch, Donald G. 1928-2010 creator text bibliography ilu Downers Grove, Ill Nottingham, England IVP Academic Apollos c2007 2007 monographic eng

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191 p. : music ; 23 cm. Introduction -- Perduring types -- Mentors and teachers -- The legacy of pietism -- Continuing questions -- In quest of spirituality -- Faith and spirituality -- True spirituality -- The crisis in spirituality -- Types of spirituality -- Mystical religion -- Biblical religion -- A new spiritual vision -- Ideal types -- Classical mysticism -- The mystical experience -- The God above God -- The eternal and the temporal -- Ascent to divinity -- Call to the desert -- The church within -- The biblical-classical synthesis -- Epilogue -- Appendix A : Christian mysticism and gnosticism -- Hallmarks of gnosticism -- Differences from Christian mysticism -- Biblical personalism -- The sovereign, creator God -- The divine-human encounter -- The scandal of particularity -- Word and Spirit -- Salvation by grace -- The paradoxical love of the cross -- Holy worldliness -- The struggle of prayer -- The great commission -- Epilogue -- The new spirituality -- Historical roots -- The new metaphysics -- Key concepts -- Secular mysticism -- Rebirth of the gods -- Appendix B : The New Age Movement -- Trademarks of the New Age -- Precursors and proponents -- Salient symbols -- A royal theology? -- Afterword -- Worldviews in collision -- Authority -- Anthropology -- Doctrine of God -- Jesus Christ -- Life and vocation -- Faith, hope and love -- Prayer and action -- Ecclesiology and eschatology -- Life and faith -- Appendix C : An unresolved tension -- For Christ and his kingdom -- A churchly spirituality -- The dialogue with mysticism -- The dialogue with Pentecostalism -- Freedom for obedience -- Appendix D : Thřs̈e of Lisieux : an evangelical saint? -- Appendix E -- a hymn of pietism. Donald G. Bloesch. Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-185) and indexes. Spirituality BV4501.3 .B545 2007 248 9780830828388 (pbk.) 0830828389 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2007011182 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0713/2007011182.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0713/2007011182.html DLC 160210 20250312110410.0 14773601