Christian Spirituality: High Middle Ages and Reformation

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Jill Raitt, Bernard McGinn, John Meyendorff
Crossroad, 1987 - Religion - 479 pages
From the World Spirituality series, this is a broad-ranging, illustrated, scholarly treatment of core topics in Christian spirituality, focused on the Reformation and pre-Reformation periods.

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The Mendicants
15
The Spirituality of the Augustinians
63
Major Currents in Late Medieval Devotion
75
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Bernard McGinn is one is of the greatest living authorities on Catholic historical theology. The Naomi Shenstone Donnelly Professor (Emeritus) of historical theology and history of Christianity at the University of Chicago, McGinn holds a Ph.D. from Brandeis University and an S.T.L. from the Pontifical Gregorian University. McGinn has lectured on and written extensively about the history of apocalyptic thought and recently has focused his attention on the fields of spirituality and mysticism. His current long-range project is a seven-volume history of Christian mysticism in the West called The Presence of God.

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