Spirituality Old and New: Recovering Authentic Spiritual Life Book

Acknowledgments     11
Abbreviations of Bible Translations     12
Preface     13
Introduction     17
Perduring Types     18
Mentors and Teachers     20
The Legacy of Pietism     21
Continuing Questions     22
In Quest of Spirituality     25
Faith and Spirituality     26
True Spirituality     29
The Crisis in Spirituality     31
Types of Spirituality     34
Mystical Religion     35
Biblical Religion     38
A New Spiritual Vision     42
Ideal Types     46
Classical Mysticism     49
The Mystical Experience     50
The God Above God     51
The Eternal and the Temporal     52
Ascent to Divinity     54
Call to the Desert     57
The Church Within     59
The Biblical-Classical Synthesis     60
Epilogue     68
Christian Mysticism and Gnosticism     71
Hallmarks of Gnosticism     71
Differences from Christian Mysticism     73
Biblical Personalism     77
The Sovereign,Creator God     78
The Divine-Human Encounter     80
The Scandal of Particularity     83
Word and Spirit     85
Salvation by Grace     87
The Paradoxical Love of the Cross     89
Holy Worldliness     92
The Struggle of Prayer     94
The Great Commission     96
Epilogue     98
The New Spirituality     101
Historical Roots     102
The New Metaphysics     105
Key Concepts     107
Secular Mysticism     111
Rebirth of the Gods     113
The New Age Movement     116
Trademarks of the New Age     117
Precursors and Proponents     119
Salient Symbols     121
A Royal Theology?     122
Afterword     123
Worldviews in Collision     125
Authority     126
Anthropology     127
Doctrine of God     128
Jesus Christ     129
Life and Vocation     131
Faith, Hope and Love     132
Prayer and Action     133
Ecclesiology and Eschatology     134
Life and Faith      135
An Unresolved Tension     137
For Christ and His Kingdom     139
A Churchly Spirituality     140
The Dialogue with Mysticism     143
The Dialogue with Pentecostalism     146
Freedom for Obedience     148
Therese of Lisieux: An Evangelical Saint?     151
A Hymn of Pietism     156
Notes     161
Name Index     186
Subject Index     190
Scripture Index     192