Cross in Christian Tradition, The: From Paul to Bonaventure - Softcover

Dreyer, Elizabeth A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809140004 ISBN 13: 9780809140008

Publisher: Paulist Press, 2001

Synopsis

A group of essays that examine the settings, images, metaphors, and meanings of the cross at select points in the Christian tradition from Paul to Bonaventure.

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth A. Dreyer is editor of the Called to Holiness series and professor of religious studies at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. She lectures widely on the Christian tradition, especially medieval mysticism, grace, the Holy Spirit and contemporary lay spirituality. She wrote Holy Power, Holy Presence: Medieval Metaphors of the Holy Spirit, Passionate Spirituality: Hildegard of Bingen and Hadewijch of Brabant; Earth Crammed With Heaven: A Spirituality of Everyday Life; and A Retreat with Catherine of Siena: Living the Truth in Love. With Mark Burrows she edited Minding the Spirit: The Study of Christian Spirituality. She lives in Hamden, Connecticut with her husband, John Bennett.

About this edition

• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0809140004
• ISBN 13: 9780809140008
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272