Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The theology of spirituality. Liturgy and personal devotion / C.P.M. Jones ; The theology of Christian spirituality / Edward Yarnold ; Mysticism, human and divine / C.P.M. Jones ; Prayer and personality : prayer as primary speech / Ann and Barry Ulanov ; Sociology and the study of spirituality / Anthony Russell ; Media of Spirituality / Edward Yarnold -- The history of spirituality. The OId Testament / John Barton ; The New Testament / C.P.M. Jones ; Greek philosophy, wisdom literature and Gnosis / Anthony Meredith ; Philo / Anthony Meredith ; Plotinus / Anthony Meredith ; Proclus / Anthony Meredith ; The apostolic fathers and Irenaeus / Simon Tugwell ; Tertullian and Cyprian / Edward Yarnold ; Clement of Alexandria / Anthony Meredith ; Orogin / Anthony Meredith ; The desert fathers, Anthony and Pachomius / Philip Rousseau ; Ambrose / Edward Yarnold ; Jerome / Edward Yarnold ; Augustine / Andrew Louth ; John Cassian / Owen Chadwick ; Benedict / Placid Spearritt ; John Scotus Eriugena / Edward Yarnold ; Introduction / Kallistos Ware ; The Cappadocians / Andrew Louth ; Evagrius and Macarius / Simon Tugwell ; The origins of the Jesus prayer : Diadochus, Gaza, Sinai / Kallistos Ware ; Denys the Areopagite / Andrew Louth ; Maximus the Confessor / Andrew Louth ; The spirituality of the icon / Kallistos Ware ; The Syriac tradition / Sebastian Brock ; Celtic spirituality / Diarmuid O'Laoghaire ; The Anglo-Saxon tradition / Milton McC. Gatch ; Symeon the New Theologian / Kallistos Ware ; The Hesychasts : Gregory of Sinai, Gregory Palamas, Nicolas Cabasilas / Kallistos Ware ; The Hesychast renaissance / Kallistos Ware ; Russian / Sergei Hackel ; Gregory the Great / Benedicta Ward ; Anselm of Canterbury / Benedicta Ward ; The new orders / Benedicta Ward ; Joachim of Fiore / Marjorie Reeves ; The Mendicants / Simon Tugwell ; The Dominicans / Simon Tugwell ; The Franciscans / John R.H. Moorman ; Dante Alighieri / Max Saint ; Catherine of Siena / Max Saint ; Catherine of Genoa / Max Saint ; The Rhineland mystics / Cyprian Smith and Oliver Davies ; Ruysbroeck, à Kempis and the Theologia Deutsch / Oliver Davies ; Nicholas of Cusa (Cusanus) / Edward Yarnold ; The English mystics / Clifton Wolters ; Northern humanists before the reform / James McConica.

[Cont.] Introduction / D.H. Tripp ; Luther / D.H. Tripp ; Zwingli / C.M. Dent ; The Anabaptists / C.M. Dent ; Calvin / D.H. Tripp ; Conclusion / D.H. Tripp ; Ignatius Loyola / Michael Ivens ; Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross / E.W. Trueman Dicken ; Other Spanish spiritual writers / E.W. Trueman Dicken ; François de Sales / Elisabeth Stopp ; Bérulle and the 'French school' / John Saward ; Jansenism / Elfrieda Dubois ; Pascal / Elfrieda Dubois ; Fénelon and Quietism / Elfrieda Dubois ; Jean-Pierre de Caussade / Mark Gibbard ; Charles de Foucauld / Mark Gibbard ; English Roman Catholics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / John Coulson ; The Caroline Divines and the Cambridge Platonists / Martin Thornton ; The Puritans / Gordon S. Wakefield ; The Quakers / Gordon S. Wakefield ; Continental Pietism / David W. Lotz ; The Nonjurors and William Law / W. Jardine Grisbrooke ; John Wesley and the Methodist movement / A. Raymond George ; The Evangelical revival in the Church of England / Michael Hennell ; The Catholic revival in the Church of England / R.D. Townsend ; Kierkegaard / D.A. Hart ; Some patterns in American Protestantism / Robert Handy ; Black worship / James Cone ; Judaism / Louis Jacobs ; Islam / F.W. Zimmermann ; Hinduism / J. Duncan M. Derrett ; Buddhism / J. Duncan M. Derrett ; African religion / John S. Mbiti ; Amerindian spirituality / D. Stover ; Orthodoxy / Alexander Schmemann ; Roman Catholicism / Edward Malatesta ; Protestantism / Gordon S. Wakefield ; Anglicanism / A.M. Allchin ; Ecumenical spirituality / Geoffrey Wainwright ; Pentecostals and the Charismatic movement / Walter J. Hollenweger ; Interplay with other religions / Kosuke Koyama -- Pastoral spirituality. The nature of spiritual development / Christopher Bryant ; The nature of spiritual direction : sacramental confession / Christopher Bryant ; Group prayer / John Gunstone ; Communities old and new / Anthony Priddis ; Adaptation of historic spirituality for today / Mark Gibbard ; Retreat / John Townroe ; Spirituality and social justice / Kenneth Leech ; Prayer and theological reflection / John MacQuarrie ; Christian spirituality and healing / John Townroe ; Types of spirituality / Geoffrey Wainwright.