MODERN SPIRITUAL WRITERS
Their Legacies of Prayer

Some writers have the ability to combine true spiritual and intellectual depth with practical, down-to-earth guidelines for growth in holiness. This book is an ecumenically oriented introduction to nine such authors, each discussed in sufficient detail to provide a good idea of the major aspects of their thought in a way calculated to appeal to the general reader. Of the six Catholic authors considered, four are men (John Henry Newman, Columba Marmion, Thomas Merton and Teilhard de Chardin) and two are women (Dorothy Day and Caryll Houselander). The others include an Anglican (C.S. Lewis), a Lutheran (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) and a Jewish writer (Abraham Joshua Heschel). In their legacies of prayer, each makes a unique and invaluable contribution to our individual journeys of faith.

About the Author: Fr. Charles J. Healey, SJ, a member and past provincial superior of the New England Province of the Society of Jesus, holds a doctorate in theology from the Gregorian University in Rome. On the faculty of Boston College for a number of years, he is presently stationed at Pope John XXIII National Seminary in Weston, MA, where he teaches systematic and spiritual theology and serves as Academic Dean. He teaches summers in the graduate program in spirituality at Creighton University in Omaha, NB. Since his ordination he has been active in retreat work and his articles on prayer and spirituality have appeared in various periodicals. He is also the author of A New Song to the Lord (Alba House, 1991).