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As Paul guides and educates his converts he functions as a psychagogue (“leader of souls”), adapting his leadership style as required in each individual case. Pauline psychagogy resembles Epicurean psychagogy in the way persons enjoying a superior moral status and spiritual aptitude help to nurture and correct others, guiding their souls in moral and religious (re)formation. This study relates Epicurean psychagogy of late Republican times to early Christian psychagogy on the basis of an investigation which places the practice in the wider socio-cultural perspective, contextualising it in Greco-Roman literature treating friendship and flattery and the importance of adaptability in moral guidance. Pauline studies are advanced by the introduction of new material into the discussion of the Corinthian correspondence which throws light on Paul's debate with his recalcitrant critics.

Adaptability (Psychology) --- Spiritual formation --- Adaptation (Psychologie) --- Formation spirituelle --- Biblical teaching --- Enseignement biblique --- Epicurus --- Philodemus, --- Influence --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Critique, interprétation, etc. --- Biblical teaching. --- 1 <38> EPICURUS --- 227.08 --- -Spiritual formation --- -Christian character formation --- Formation, Spiritual --- Growth, Spiritual --- Spiritual growth --- Spiritual life --- Christian education --- Discipling (Christianity) --- Adaptation (Psychology) --- Adaptive behavior --- Flexibility (Psychology) --- Malleability (Psychology) --- Personality --- Adjustment (Psychology) --- Griekse filosofie--EPICURUS --- Paulinische theologie --- Christianity --- -Philodemus --- Epikuros --- Ėpikur --- Epiḳoros --- Epicuro --- Epikouros --- Abīqūr --- Yibijiulu --- Epicure --- Epʻikʻurosŭ --- Έπίκουρος --- -Griekse filosofie--EPICURUS --- 227.08 Paulinische theologie --- 1 <38> EPICURUS Griekse filosofie--EPICURUS --- -227.08 Paulinische theologie --- Christian character formation --- Filodemo --- Critique, interprétation, etc. --- Influence. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Ἐπίκουρος --- Spiritual formation - Biblical teaching. --- Adaptability (Psychology) - Biblical teaching.

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Christianity --- Psychology, Religious. --- Spiritual formation. --- Change (Psychology) --- Faith development. --- Moral development. --- Ethical development --- Child psychology --- Moral education --- Faith development --- Development of faith --- Faith, Stages of --- Religious development --- Stages of faith --- Christian education --- Psychology, Religious --- Moral development --- Christian character formation --- Formation, Spiritual --- Growth, Spiritual --- Spiritual growth --- Spiritual life --- Discipling (Christianity) --- Psychology of religion --- Religion --- Religions --- Religious psychology --- Psychology and religion --- Psychology. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Psychological aspects --- Psychology

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This book explores the implications of recent insights in modern neuroscience for the church's view of spiritual formation. Science suggests that functions of the brain and body in collaboration with social experience, rather than a disembodied soul, provide physical basis for the mental capacities, interpersonal relations, and religious experiences of human beings. The realization that human beings are wholly physical, but with unique mental, relational and spiritual capacities, challenges traditional views of Christian life as defined by the care of souls, a view that leads to inwardness and individuality. Psychology and neuroscience suggest the importance of developmental openness, attachment, imitation and stories as tools in spiritual formation. Accordingly, the idea that care of embodied persons should be fundamentally social and communal sets new priorities for encouraging spiritual growth and building congregations.

Neurosciences --- Psychology and religion --- Psychology, Religious --- Religion --- Spiritual formation --- Theological anthropology --- 159.9:2 --- Man (Christian theology) --- Christian character formation --- Formation, Spiritual --- Growth, Spiritual --- Spiritual growth --- Spiritual life --- Christian education --- Discipling (Christianity) --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Psychology of religion --- Religious psychology --- Religion and psychology --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- 159.9:2 Godsdienstpsychologie --- Godsdienstpsychologie --- Christianity --- Psychological aspects --- Psychology --- Psychology and religion. --- Psychology, Religious. --- Neurosciences. --- Religion. --- Spiritual formation. --- Christianity. --- Arts and Humanities

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This book examines the theology of spiritual formation developed by fourteenth-century Flemish mystic John of Ruusbroec, arguing that his formational path clearly and consistently displays the characteristics of the archetypal narrative structure of the hero’s journey.To start with, a hermeneutical dialogue between scholars of the hero’s journey and Ruusbroec is established, employing the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer. The author then examines the stages and tropes of the hero’s journey according to Vladimir Propp, Joseph Campbell, Northrop Frye, René Girard, Dean Miller, and others, exploring the parallels in Ruusbroec’s writing and theology of spiritual formation. The book follows Ruusbroec’s story of answering the divine call, journeying inward and experiencing the trials of spiritual transformation, attaining the treasure of divine union, and returning in loving service to others. Finally, the ramifications of the argument for the interpretation and application of other mystical and heroic narratives are considered.Offering a new perspective on John of Ruusbroec, mystical theology, and the hero’s journey as a spiritual quest, this volume will be of interest to scholars of mysticism, theology, formative spirituality, narrative theory, and religious literature of the Low Countries.

Mystics --- Mysticism --- Spiritual formation --- Spirituality --- Heroes --- Heroism --- Persons --- Antiheroes --- Apotheosis --- Courage --- Christian character formation --- Formation, Spiritual --- Growth, Spiritual --- Spiritual growth --- Spiritual life --- Christian education --- Discipling (Christianity) --- Church history --- History --- Christianity --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Ruusbroec, Jan van, --- Jan, --- Ruysbroeck, Jan van, --- Jan van Ruysbroeck, --- Ruusbroec, Johannes van, --- Ruusbroec, Juan, --- Rusbroquio, Juan, --- Ruusbroec, John, --- Rüsbröck, John, --- Rusbrochius, Ioannes, --- Ruusbroec, Jean, --- Ruisbroeck, Jan van, --- Rusber, Jan, --- Rusbrochius, Joannes, --- Ruysbroek, Jan van, --- Ruysbroeck, John, --- E-books --- Formation spirituelle. --- Héros --- Mysticisme --- Mystics. --- Mystiques --- Spiritual formation. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme. --- Middle Ages. --- Histoire --- 600-1500. --- Europe --- Christian spirituality --- Ruysbroeck, of, John --- anno 500-1499 --- Flanders