Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface

Part One: The Theological Principles of Spiritual Theology
1. Christian Spiritual Theology: Its Nature and Criteria
2. The Christian Doctrine of God as the Foundation of Christian Spirituality
3. Sin and Human Nature
4. Salvation and the Life of Spiritual Progress
5. The Church as the Community of Saints

Part Two: The Practice of the Spiritual Life
6. The Theology and Life of Prayer
7. Spiritual Exercises Focusing on God and Self
8. Spiritual Exercises Focusing on the Word
9. Spiritual Exercises Focusing on the World
10. The Rule of Life
11. The Discernment of Spirits
12. The Art of Spiritual Direction

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Persons

Index of Subjects

About the Author

Simon Chan (Ph.D., Cambridge) is Earnest Lau Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Theological College in Singapore. He is the author of Man and Sin, Pentecostal Theology and the Christian Spiritual Tradition, Spiritual Theology: A Systematic Study of the Christian Life and Liturgical Theology: The Church as Worshiping Community. He is also the associate editor of the Global Dictionary of Theology and the Dictionary of Mission Theology.