Papers by Douglas Christie
This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Theological Studies at Digital Com... more This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Theological Studies at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theological Studies Faculty Works by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Repository Citation Christie, Douglas E., "Wisdom: The Hidden Face of God" (2002). Theological Studies Faculty Works. 126. http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/126
This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Theological Studies at Digital Com... more This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Theological Studies at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theological Studies Faculty Works by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Repository Citation Christie, Douglas E., "Into the Labyrinth: Walking the Way of Wisdom" (1997). Theological Studies Faculty Works. 131. http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/131
Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, 2013
This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Theological Studies at Digital Com... more This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Theological Studies at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theological Studies Faculty Works by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Repository Citation Christie, Douglas E., "The Birth of the Word in the Soul" (2008). Theological Studies Faculty Works. 138. http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/138
The American Historical Review, 2006
... more than a man whose knowledge, attained through his ascetic labors and with God's... more ... more than a man whose knowledge, attained through his ascetic labors and with God's grace (p. 77 ... as Ethiopians, since the idea that black skin symbolized the sin that Christian grace removed was ... the priest and the magician, fellow adepts in the ways of the gods, now held ...
The article discusses the role of sadness in the spiritual life of Christian. It focuses on the m... more The article discusses the role of sadness in the spiritual life of Christian. It focuses on the moral and spiritual importance of sadness within the Christian spirituality, centering on the impact of sadness to the life of monks. It also accounts how Christians tend to accept the challenge to morally and spiritually struggle and understand the presence of sadness. In addition, it accounts the work of fourth-century monastic writer Evagrius of Pontus on the function of sadness among Christian
This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Theological Studies at Digital Com... more This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Theological Studies at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theological Studies Faculty Works by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Repository Citation Christie, Douglas E., "Christ in Ten Thousand Places: Cultivating the Art of Attention" (2000). Theological Studies Faculty Works. 125. http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/125
This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Theological Studies at Digital... more This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Theological Studies at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theological Studies Faculty Works by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Repository Citation Christie, Douglas E., "Understanding Christian Spirituality (Review)" (1998). Theological Studies Faculty Works. 98. http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/98
Anglican theological review, 2013
What does it mean to pray in response to the most acute challenges of everyday historical existen... more What does it mean to pray in response to the most acute challenges of everyday historical existence? When prayer is conceived of primarily as a personal, deeply interiorized expression of the soul's longing to communicate with a transcendent God, it can be difficult to imagine what it might mean to incorporate the embodied, communal, historically mediated dimensions of human experience into the broader understanding about what it means to pray. The challenge is to find a way of understanding and articulating how the powerful and supple language of prayer comes to expression in and through the concrete, historically mediated forms in which human beings actually live. Thinking about prayer in this way, as an embodied, socially and historically situated spiritual practice, can help us overcome a long-standing habit of thinking of prayer primarily in terms of dispositions or mental habits and help us retrieve a sense of the wholeness of prayer within the Christian tradition.I kneel ...
This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Theological Studies at Digital Com... more This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Theological Studies at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theological Studies Faculty Works by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Repository Citation Christie, Douglas E., "Simplicity, or the Terror of Belief: The Making and Unmaking of the Self in Early Christian Monasticism" (2005). Theological Studies Faculty Works. 101. http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/101
Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1997
This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Theological Studies at Digital... more This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Theological Studies at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theological Studies Faculty Works by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Repository Citation Christie, Douglas E., "Review of Reading with a Passion : Rhetoric, Autobiography, and the American West in the Gospel of John" (1997). Theological Studies Faculty Works. Paper 123. http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/123
This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Theological Studies at Digital Com... more This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Theological Studies at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theological Studies Faculty Works by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Repository Citation Christie, Douglas E., "We Already Have All That We Seek: Prayer as Radical Simplicity" (1995). Theological Studies Faculty Works. 127. http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/127
Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology, 1998
In the waning years of the third century, a young man named Antony, walking through his small Egy... more In the waning years of the third century, a young man named Antony, walking through his small Egyptian village one day, heard a word from Scripture being read in the local church.
Uploads
Papers by Douglas Christie