This useful reference work is a model of compact scholarship. Its modest format encloses a wealth of information. . . . Holmes shows an easy familiarity with the vast major and minor source materials centering upon 1150 1200. Speculum"

This book is an introduction and basic understanding of the Anglican heritage.

This modern classic explores the key concepts and people who have shaped our Christian spiritual heritage. At the time it was first published, the author wrote, -This book is the result of finding nothing to recommend to my students as an introduction to the wide variety and great richness of the Christian spiritual experience. The texts available are either too detailed, too unbalanced, or both.- This situation remains the same today, more than twenty years later. Now this concise and very readable introduction to Christian spirituality is available for a new generation of readers. Holmes...