Saving fear in Christian spirituality / edited by Ann W. Astell.
Hailed in Sacred Scripture as the "beginning of wisdom" (Ps 111:10), the "fear of the Lord" is seldom mentioned and little understood today. A gift of the Spirit and a moral virtue or disposition, the "fear of the Lord" also frequently entails emotional experiences of d...
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Notre Dame, Indiana :
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Saving of fear: an introduction / Ann W. Astell
- Fear at the foundations: Biblical and patristic
- "In awe of the mighty deeds of God": the fear of God in early Christianity from the perspective of Biblical spirituality / Pieter G.R. de Villiers
- Cyril of Jerusalem on learning the proper type of fear of God / Donna R. Hawk-Reinhard
- Threading the needle: fear of the Lord and the incarnation in St. Augustine / John Sehorn
- Fear in medieval meditation
- Lips of fear kissed by mercy: expositions of Timor Dei in Cistercian commentary on the Song of Songs / Catherine Ross Cavadini
- Aquinas on Christ's fear / Joseph Wawrykow
- Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God and the nuancing of the fear of the Lord / Robert Boenig
- Fear amongst the reformers
- Reformation recovery of the wrath of God / Ralph Keen
- Doctor of divine love and fear of the Lord / Wendy M. Wright
- Fear of God in Pascal and his Jansenist friends / Ephraim Radner
- Fear in the modern debate
- Casting out fear: the logic of "God is Love" in Julian of Norwich and Friedrich Schleiermacher / Julia A. Lamm
- Fear of God in John Henry Newman and Søren Kierkegaard / Cyril O' Regan
- Fear on the eve of the new millennium
- "Gold fillings into crocodiles' teeth": Christian fear, politics, and imagination in Léon Bloy (1846-1917) / Brenna Moore
- Faith, hope, charity, and the fears of Fatima / Ann W. Astell
- Shocked to awe: the rapture hermeneutic and holy fear / Maj-Britt Frenze
- Fear of God in liberation theology / Tod Walatka
- Concluding case study in spiritual direction: Father Joseph Kentenich (1885-1968) and Emilie Engel (1893-1955) / Ann W. Astell.