The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality

The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality
ISBN-10
066422170X
ISBN-13
9780664221706
Category
Religion
Pages
424
Language
English
Published
1983-01-01
Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
Author
Gordon S. Wakefield

Description

Ecumenical in character, this comprehensive and authoritative dictionary is the achievement of scholars of international standing--Anglicans, Roman Catholics, Baptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Methodists, Lutherans, and others....The articles are nondogmatic and scholarly....The main emphasis is thematic--the entries represent types, schools, and subjects. Articles that refer to non-Christian religions...are included insofar as they have influenced Christianity. The unifying theme of the dictionary is that it seeks to illumine ways in which women and men have responded to God in prayer and living...

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