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Theology is “the doctrine of living unto God,” wrote the Puritan theologian William Ames. Unfortunately, post-Enlightenment theology has tended to divorce “doctrine” from “living unto God.” And to the degree that this split has been deepened and perpetuated, both theology and spirituality have been impoverished. Spiritual Theology is a rare book. In it, Simon Chan surveys the little-explored...

K. E. Kirk, Some Principles of Moral Theology. The scope of what Kirk calls moral theology corresponds closely with what we would call spiritual theology. It deals with “the ideal of Christian character … the internal dispositions of that character without which its virtues cannot flower … the means and motives by which its growth can be best fostered … the hindrances that threaten to spoil the work and the ways in which they can be met and neutralized.”11 Jordan Aumann, whose Spiritual Theology
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