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- Publisher
- SAGE
- Copyright
- © 2015 Anglican Theological Review Corporation
- ISSN
- 0003-3286
- eISSN
- 2163-6214
- DOI
- 10.1177/000332861509700120
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
ATR/97.1 140 Anglican Theological Review song, which is the wordless order and depth of the world around us. Eros explores the relation of the material order to the soul through poetics and prayer, a literature that describes the language of a particular place. Kenosis engages the difficulty of loss and death, and the need for sustained attention even here to open a space for the self where one’s awareness of weight and significance can be deepened. Finally, Telos is the practice of imaging para- dise to address the fragility of the world and to bridge the gap between our intuition of this truth and our capacity to embody it. This creative and timely book will move and transform readers, espe- cially those interested in monastic traditions and contemplation as a spiri- tual and ethical source of living. Christie has drunk deeply from monastic and literary wells. Yet there is a regrettable narrowness and abstraction in Evagrian intellectual psychology and American Western landscapes, sliding at times toward a secular spirituality of personal transformation. As Arthur Holder has observed, the methodology of spiritual “classics” erases the physi- cal particularities of nature or history or gender to extract universalized and transcendental practices.
Journal
Anglican Theological Review – SAGE
Published: Aug 16, 2021