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Tables of Contents for Ages of the Spiritual Life
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
vii
A Life in the Spirit and the Spiritual Life
1
12
Introduction
13
8
I The Encounter
21
62
1 Atheism
21
28
2 Faith
49
8
3 Dimensions of the Spiritual Life
57
4
4 The Ascetic Art and the Dangers of Ignorance
61
6
5 Essential Elements of the Spiritual Life
67
4
6 The Nature or Essence of the Spiritual Life
71
6
7 The Different Ages of the Spiritual Life
77
6
II Obstacles and Struggle
83
98
1 Negations of Evil and Affirmations of Good
83
8
2 Three Aspects of Evil and the Evil One
91
6
3 Hell and the Infernal Dimension of the World
97
6
Iconography
97
6
4 Human Suffering
103
6
5 The Message of Pentecost
109
6
6 The Desert Fathers
115
20
7 Interiorized Monasticism
135
22
1. The Transmission of the Witness
135
2
2. The Universal Character of Monastic Spirituality
137
4
3. The Three Temptations, the Lord's Three Answers, and the Three Monastic Vows
141
6
4. The Vow of Poverty in the Interior Monasticism of the Laity
147
2
5. The Vow of Chastity
149
4
6. The Vow of Obedience
153
2
7. Christian Unity and Monastic Freedom
155
2
8 The Human Being
157
4
9 The Asceticism of the Spiritual Life
161
4
10 The Ascetic Effort
165
4
11 The Progression of the Spiritual Life
169
4
12 The Passions and the Technique of Temptation
173
8
III The Charisms of the Spiritual Life and the Mystical Ascent
181
78
1 The Evolution of the Spiritual Life in the East and in the West
181
6
2 The Passage from the Old Testament to the New
187
6
3 The Charisms of the Spiritual Life
193
32
1. The spirit of discernment, impassibility, silence, vigilance, repentance and humility
193
11
2. The charism of "joyful dying"
204
6
3. Prayer
210
15
4 Lectio Divina: Reading the Bible
225
6
5 The Universal Priesthood of the Laity in the Eastern Church Tradition
231
18
6 The Mystical Ascent
249
10
Selected Bibliography
259