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Practical Theology Online Reading Room
A guide for resources related to Practical Theology here at Ashland Theological Seminary.
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Contemplation / Meditation / Silence
Fasting
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Hospitality
Humility
Labyrinth
Prayer
Prayer Beads / Rosary
Retreat
Sabbath
Spiritual Formation (General Works)
Contemplation / Meditation / Silence
Contemplative Literature: A Comparative Sourcebook on Meditation and Contemplative Prayer
by
Louis Komjathy
ISBN: 9781438457055
Publication Date: 2015
From the Stone Age to Thomas Merton: A Short History of Contemplative Prayer
by
Larry Hart and James Farris
ISBN: 9781532652707
Publication Date: 2018
How to Do Things with Silence
by
Haig Khatchadourian
ISBN: 9781501510472
Publication Date: 2015
Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
by
Martin Laird
ISBN: 9780195307603
Publication Date: 2006
The Library of Paradise: A History of Contemplative Reading in the Monasteries of the Church of the East
by
David A. Michelson
ISBN: 9780198836247
Publication Date: 2023
Meditation and Communion with God: Contemplating Scripture in an Age of Distraction
by
John Jefferson Davis
ISBN: 9780830839766
Publication Date: 2012
The Monk's Cell: Ritual and Knowledge in American Contemplative Christianity
by
Paula Pryce
ISBN: 9780190680589
Publication Date: 2017
Shaped by the Cross: Meditations on the Suffering of Jesus
by
Ken Gire
ISBN: 9780830869565
Publication Date: 2011
A Sunlit Absence: Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation
by
Martin Laird
ISBN: 9780195378726
Publication Date: 2011
Thinking Through Thomas Merton: Contemplation for Contemporary Times
by
Robert Inchausti
ISBN: 9781438449456
Publication Date: 2014
Thomas Aquinas and Contemplation
by
Rik Van Nieuwenhove
ISBN: 9780192895295
Publication Date: 2021
Fasting
Christian Fasting: Biblical and Evangelical Perspectives
by
S. H. Mathews
ISBN: 9781498507530
Publication Date: 2015
Generosity / Gratitude
Choosing Gratitude: Learning to Love the Life You Have
by
James A. Autry
ISBN: 1573126144
Publication Date: 2012
Eucharistic Reciprocity: A Practical Theological Inquiry into the Virtue of Gratitude
by
A. William DeJong
ISBN: 9781532672552
Publication Date: 2019
The Gifting God: A Trinitarian Ethics of Excess
by
Stephen H. Webb
ISBN: 0195344561
Publication Date: 1996
The Grateful Heart: Living the Christian Message
by
Wilkie Au; Noreen Cannon Au
ISBN: 0809147351
Publication Date: 2011
Open Hands: Lessons on Giving and Receiving
by
Jana Mullins
ISBN: 9781933979335
Publication Date: 2008
A Theology of Gratitude: Christian and Muslim Perspectives
by
Mona Siddiqui (Editor); Nathanael Vette (Editor)
ISBN: 9781009198400
Publication Date: 2022
Wealth and the Will of God: Discerning the Use of Riches in the Service of Ultimate Purpose
by
Paul G. Schervish; Keith Whitaker; Albert Keith Whitaker
ISBN: 9781282539907
Publication Date: 2010
Hospitality
A Christian View of Hospitality: Expecting Surprises
by
Michele Hershberger
ISBN: 0585237697
Publication Date: 1999
Fragile Identities: Towards a Theology of Interreligious Hospitality
by
Marianne Moyaert
ISBN: 9789042032798
Publication Date: 2011
The Gift of the Other: Levinas, Derrida, and a Theology of Hospitality
by
Andrew Shepherd; Steven Bouma-Prediger (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781620327661
Publication Date: 2014
Hospitable God: The Transformative Dream
by
George Newlands; Allen Smith
ISBN: 1032099399
Publication Date: 2016
Hospitality: An Ecclesiological Practice of Ministry
by
Freddy James Clark
ISBN: 9780761829829
Publication Date: 2007
Hospitality and Community After Christendom
by
Andrew Francis
ISBN: 9781842277478
Publication Date: 2012
Safeguarding the Stranger: An Abrahamic Theology and Ethic of Protective Hospitality
by
Jayme R. Reaves
ISBN: 9781498224628
Publication Date: 2016
Humility
Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility
by
Duane Elmer
ISBN: 9780830874835
Publication Date: 2009
Humility Illuminated: The Biblical Path Back to Christian Character
by
Dennis R. Edwards; Marlena Graves (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781514000441
Publication Date: 2023
Paul on Humility
by
Eve-Marie Becker; Wayne Coppins (Translator, Series edited by); Simon Gathercole (Series edited by)
ISBN: 9781481313018
Publication Date: 2020
Simplicity and Humility in Late Antique Christian Thought
by
Jaclyn L. Maxwell
ISBN: 9781108935739
Publication Date: 2021
Spiritual Practices of Jesus: Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke's Earliest Readers
by
Catherine J. Wright
Publication Date: 2020
Labyrinth
The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity Through the Middle Ages
by
Penelope R. Doob
ISBN: 9781501738470
Publication Date: 2019
Walking the Labyrinth: A Place to Pray and Seek God
by
Travis Scholl; Walter Wangerin (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780830835836
Publication Date: 2014
Prayer
50 Ways to Pray: Practices From Many Traditions and Times
by
Teresa A. Blythe
ISBN: 9780687331048
Publication Date: 2010
Analyzing Prayer: Theological and Philosophical Essays
by
Oliver D. Crisp (Editor); James M. Arcadi (Editor); Jordan Wessling (Editor)
ISBN: 9780192859044
Publication Date: 2022
A Guidebook to Prayer: 24 Ways to Walk with God
by
MaryKate Morse; Joshua Choonmin Kang (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780830835782
Publication Date: 2013
Imaginative Prayer: A Yearlong Guide for Your Child's Spiritual Formation
by
Jared Patrick Boyd
ISBN: 9780830846252
Publication Date: 2017
Opening to God: Lectio Divina and Life As Prayer
by
David G. Benner
ISBN: 9780830846863
Publication Date: 2021
Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God
by
Sybil MacBeth
ISBN: 9781612613536
Publication Date: 2013
Spiritual Practices of Jesus: Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke's Earliest Readers
by
Catherine J. Wright
Publication Date: 2020
Uncommon Prayer: Prayer in Everyday Experience
by
Michael Plekon
ISBN: 9780268100001
Publication Date: 2016
Prayers Beads / Rosary
Beads and Prayers: The Rosary in History and Devotion
by
John Desmond Miller
ISBN: 9780860123200
Publication Date: 2002
The Excellence of the Rosary: Conferences for Devotions in Honor of the Blessed Virgin
by
M. J. Frings
ISBN: 9781782340461
Publication Date: 2012
The Mystery of the Rosary: Marian Devotion and the Reinvention of Catholicism
by
Nathan D. Mitchell
ISBN: 9780814795910
Publication Date: 2009
Retreat
Backpacking with the Saints: Wilderness Hiking As Spiritual Practice
by
Belden C. Lane
ISBN: 9780199927814
Publication Date: 2014
The Solace of Fierce Landscapes
by
Belden C. Lane
ISBN: 9780195315851
Publication Date: 2007
Sabbath
A Brief History of Sunday: From the New Testament to the New Creation
by
Justo L. González
ISBN: 9781467446938
Publication Date: 2017
A Day Apart: How Jews, Christians, and Muslims Find Faith, Freedom, and Joy on the Sabbath
by
Christopher D. Ringwald
ISBN: 9786611156350
Publication Date: 2007
Everyday Sabbath
by
Judi Braddy
ISBN: 9780834128811
Publication Date: 2013
Israel's Day of Light and Joy : The Origin, Development, and Enduring Meaning of the Jewish Sabbath
by
Jon Douglas Levenson
ISBN: 9781646022854
Publication Date: 2024
The Sabbath Anthology
by
Abraham E. Millgram (Editor)
ISBN: 9780827613140
Publication Date: 2018
The Sabbath Experiment: Spiritual Formation for Living in a Non-Stop World
by
Robert A. Muthiah
ISBN: 9781498224192
Publication Date: 2015
Sabbath in the Suburbs: A Family's Experiment with Holy Time
by
MaryAnn McKibben-Dana
ISBN: 9780827235236
Publication Date: 2012
Spiritual Formation (General Works)
Christian Spiritual Formation: An Integrated Approach for Personal and Relational Wholeness
by
Diane J. Chandler
ISBN: 9780830840427
Publication Date: 2014
Forming Resilient Children: The Role of Spiritual Formation for Healthy Development
by
Holly Catterton Allen; Catherine Stonehouse (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781514001721
Publication Date: 2021
In Search of Wisdom: Faith Formation in the Black Church
by
Anne E. Streaty Wimberly; Evelyn L. Parker
ISBN: 9780687067008
Publication Date: 2003
Intergenerational Christian Formation: Bringing the Whole Church Together in Ministry, Community, and Worship
by
Holly Catterton Allen (Contribution by); Christine Lawton (Contribution by); Cory L. Seibel (Contribution by); Jason Brian Santos (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781514001424
Publication Date: 2023
The Life of the Body: Physical Well-Being and Spiritual Formation
by
Valerie E. Hess; Lane M. Arnold
ISBN: 9780830835713
Publication Date: 2012
Living into the Life of Jesus: The Formation of Christian Character
by
Klaus Issler; Calvin Miller
ISBN: 9780830838110
Publication Date: 2012
A Many Colored Kingdom: Multicultural Dynamics for Spiritual Formation
by
Elizabeth Conde-Frazier; S. Steve Kang; Gary A. Parrett
ISBN: 9780801027437
Publication Date: 2004
Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation
by
Cindy S Lee
ISBN: 9781506484785
Publication Date: 2022
Sacred Time: Living in the Presence of God
by
Jim Hampton; Amy Brothers
ISBN: 9780834150317
Publication Date: 2009
Sense and Spirituality: The Arts and Spiritual Formation
by
James McCullough
ISBN: 9780718894177
Publication Date: 2015
Soul Care in African American Practice
by
Barbara L. Peacock
ISBN: 9780830848201
Publication Date: 2020
The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
by
Dallas Willard
ISBN: 9780060694425
Publication Date: 2009
Spiritual Formation: A Concise Introduction and Guide
by
Corneliu C. Simut
ISBN: 9783030974466
Publication Date: 2022
Spiritual Formation: A History of Mysticism
by
Donald K. Gates; Peter Steane
ISBN: 9781612295367
Publication Date: 2014
Spiritual Formation for the Global Church: A Multi-Denominational, Multi-Ethnic Approach
by
Ryan A. Brandt (Editor); John Frederick (Editor)
ISBN: 9780830855186
Publication Date: 2021
Spiritual Formation in Local Faith Communities: A Whole-Person, Prompt-Card Approach
by
Neil Pembroke; Ewan Kelly; Theo Pleizier; William S. Schmidt; Jan-Albert van den Berg
ISBN: 9781666713756
Publication Date: 2022
Spiritual Formation Is...: How to Grow in Jesus with Passion and Confidence
by
Rod Dempsey; Dave Earley
ISBN: 9781462776757
Publication Date: 2018
Wide-Awake in God's World: Bible Engagement for Teenage Spiritual Formation in a Culture of Expressive Individualism
by
Graham D. Stanton
ISBN: 9781725274563
Publication Date: 2020
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