"Beautifully written, this is an enlightening book that informs while it gently persuades. Opening many windows onto spiritual experience in our increasingly global culture, it invites the reader to partake and contribute."Elizabeth Johnson, author of She Who Is"Ursula King's scholarly command of the wide range of classic and contemporary forms of spirituality is equalled only by her enormous clarity in communicating their content in this very important and interesting new book. Teachers, students, ministers, spiritual directors-and anyone in search of spirituality-will find this work a wise and illuminating guide."John F. Haught, author of God After Darwin"What distinguishes Ursula King's search for a spirituality that will respond to global needs is the way she combines both depth and breadth in her search. She recognizes and taps the mystical depths that nourish all spiritualities, but she also shows how these shared depths produce a broad diversity of expressions in enabling people to both understand and transform their world. Authentic spirituality, she makes clear, is both mystical in its sources and practical in its effects."Paul F. Knitter, author of One Earth Many Religions"Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. We have desperately needed Ursula King's kind of dispassionate overview of spirituality as a construct for years. Thank God we have it now." Phyllis Tickle, author of The Divine Hours
URSULA KING is an internationally renowned scholar and writer. Formerly Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Bristol, she has served as the Bampton Lecturer at the University of Oxford and is currently Research Professor at SOAS. Her many books include Christian Mysticism (Routledge), Women and Spirituality (MacMillan) and Religion and Gender (Blackwell).
"Beautifully written, this is an enlightening book that informs while it gently persuades. Opening many windows onto spiritual experience in our increasingly global culture, it invites the reader to partake and contribute."Elizabeth Johnson, author of She Who Is"Ursula King's scholarly command of the wide range of classic and contemporary forms of spirituality is equalled only by her enormous clarity in communicating their content in this very important and interesting new book. Teachers, students, ministers, spiritual directors-and anyone in search of spirituality-will find this work a wise and illuminating guide."John F. Haught, author of God After Darwin"What distinguishes Ursula King's search for a spirituality that will respond to global needs is the way she combines both depth and breadth in her search. She recognizes and taps the mystical depths that nourish all spiritualities, but she also shows how these shared depths produce a broad diversity of expressions in enabling people to both understand and transform their world. Authentic spirituality, she makes clear, is both mystical in its sources and practical in its effects."Paul F. Knitter, author of One Earth Many Religions"Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. We have desperately needed Ursula King's kind of dispassionate overview of spirituality as a construct for years. Thank God we have it now." Phyllis Tickle, author of The Divine Hours
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