A HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY (3 Volume Box Set) VOL. I: THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE FATHERS "Fr. Bouyer's is a mind erudite, brilliant, and endowed with teaching capacity: above all the mind of one with a deep experience of the life of the spirit... This is a book to be read more than once and to be kept as a book of reference prepared by a fine scholar as well as an anthology from a master of quotation and of critical presentation." —Expository Times "A real achievement and a welcome addition to a better type of writing on Christian spirituality in English." — The Heythrop Journal "Should be bought for every Catholic library that has a shelf on Christian spirituality. Compared to it most of its companion studies will seem of tinsel." —Catholie Herald VOL. II: THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE MIDDLE AGES The only comprehensive guide available on the development of Christian spirituality in this most important period. The authors tackle their fascinating subject in two stages: from the sixth century to the beginning of the thirteenth (a continuation of the age of the Fathers), and from the twelfth to the dawn of the sixteenth century. VOL. Ill: ORTHODOX SPIRITUALITY AND PROTESTANT AND ANGLICAN SPIRITUALITY This last volume of A HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY surveys Orthodox spirituality, the rebirth of Greek spirituality, and the development of Protestant and Anglican spirituality. A massive achievement, this volume brings into sharp focus a difficult and complex period of Church history.
Authors
Rev. Louis Bouyer (1913-2004) was a member of the French Oratory and one of the most respected and versatile Catholic scholars and theologians of the twentieth century. A friend of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Joseph Ratzinger, and J.R.R. Tolkien, and a co-founder of the international review Communio, Bouyer was a former Lutheran minister who entered the Catholic Church in 1939. He became a leading figure in the Catholic biblical and liturgical movements of the twentieth century, was an influence on the Second Vatican Council, and became well known for his excellent books on history of Christian spirituality. In addition to his many writings, Bouyer lectured widely across Europe and America. Woman in the Church (with an epilogue by Balthasar and an essay by C.S. Lewis), was one of the first three books published by Ignatius Press, in 1979. Other Ignatius Press books by Bouyer include The Word Church and Sacraments in Protestantism and Catholicism, Women Mystics, and the introduction to John Henry Newman: Prayers Verses Devotions (Bouyer wrote a biography of Newman). He was chosen by the Pope to be part of a team to initiate the International Theological Commission in 1969.
