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General
 
Baur, Francis, O. F. M.  Life in Abundance: A Contemporary Spirituality.  New York: Paulist, 1983.
 
Bowe, Barbara E.  Biblical Foundations of Spirituality.  Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
 
Brown, William P., ed.  Character and Scripture: Moral Formation, Community and Biblical Interpretation.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002.
 
Brueggemann, Walter.  The Land: Place as Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith.   Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977.
 
Carmody, John.  Holistic Spirituality.  New York: Paulist, 1983.
 
de Mello, Anthony, S. J.  Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality.  New York: Doubleday, 1992.
 
Downey, Michael.  Understanding Christian Spirituality.  New York: Paulist, 1997.
 
Dupré, Louis, Don E. Saliers, et al., eds.  Christian Spirituality: Post-Reformation and Modern, World Spirituality 18.  New York: Crossroad, 1989.
 
Habel, Norman C.  The Land is Mine: Six Biblical Land Ideologies, Overtures to Biblical Theology.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.
 
Hays, Richard and Ellen Davis, eds.  The Art of Reading Scripture.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.
 
Holt, Brandley.  Thirsty for God: A Brief History of Christian Spirituality.  Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1993.
 
Kurtz, Ernest and Katherine Ketcham.  The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Journey to Wholeness.  New York: Bantam, 1992.
 
Lane, George.  Christian Spirituality: An Historical Sketch.  Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1984.
 
Maloney, George A., ed.  Pilgrimage of the Heart: A Treasury of Eastern Christian Spirituality.  San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1983.
 
McGinn, Berhard and John Meyendorff, eds.  Christian Spirituality: From the Apostolic Fathers to the Twelfth Century, World Spirituality 16.  New York: Crossroad, 1985.
 
Mursell, Gordon, ed.  The Story of Christian Spirituality: Two Thousand Years, from East to West.   Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001.
 
Newman, Judith H.  Praying the Book: The Scripturalization of Prayer in Second Temple Judaism, SBLEJL 14.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999.
 
Pannenberg, Wolfhart.  Christian Spirituality.  Philadelphia: Westminster, 1983.
 
Raitt, Jill et al., eds.  Christian Spirituality: High Middle Ages and Reformation, World Spirituality 17.  New York: Crossroad, 1987.
 
Pleins, J. David.  The Social Visions of the Hebrew Bible: A Theological Introduction.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000.
 
Powell, Mark Allan.  Loving Jesus.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004.
 
Rohlheiser, Ronald.  The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality.  New York: Doubleday, 1999.
 
Rowan, Williams.  Christian Spirituality: A Theological History from the New Testament to Luther and St. John of the Cross.  Atlanta: John Knox, 1980.
 
Schneiders, Sandra M.  The Revelatory Text: Interpreting the New Testament as Sacred Scripture.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
 
--------.  Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women.  New York: Paulist, 1986.
 
Scott, James M., ed.  Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions, JSJSup 56.  Leiden: Brill, 1997.
 
Smith-Christopher, Daniel.  A Biblical Theology of Exile, Overtures to Biblical Theology.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002.
 
Tyson, John R., ed.  Invitation to Christian Spirituality: An Ecumenical Anthology.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
 
Whelan, Michael.  Living Strings: An Introduction to Biblical Spirituality.  Newtown, Australia: E. J. Dwyer, 1994.
 
Wuthnow, Robert.  After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Torah/Pentateuch
 
Brueggemann, Walter.  The Covenanted Self: Explorations in Law and Covenant.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999.
Historical Books
 
Brueggemann, Walter.  Testimony to Otherwise: The Witness of Elijah and Elisha.  Chalice, 2001.
Prophetic Books
 
Brueggemann, Walter.  A Commentary on Jeremiah: Exile and Homecoming.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1998.
 
--------.  Hopeful Imagination: Prophetic Voices in Exile.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986.
 
--------.  The Prophetic Imagination, rev. ed.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001; original 1978.
 
--------.  Texts that Linger, Words that Explode: Listening to Prophetic Voices.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000.
Wisdom Literature
 
Brueggemann, Walter.  The Psalms and the Life of Faith.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.
 
--------.  Spirituality of the Psalms, Facets.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001.
 
Pleins, J. David.  The Psalms: Songs of Tragedy, Hope, and Justice.  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1993.
 
Stuhlmueller, Carroll.  The Spirituality of the Psalms, ed. carol J. Dempsey and Timothy Lenchak.  Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 2002.
Second Temple Literature
 
Murphy, Catherine M.  Wealth in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the Qumran Community, Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 40.  Leiden: Brill, 2001.
General New Testament
 
Brown, William P., ed.  Character and Scripture: Moral Formation, Community and Biblical Interpretation.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002.
 
Longenecker, Richard N., ed.  Into God's Presence: Prayer in the New Testament, McMaster New Testament Studies 5.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2001.
 
 
Gospels
 
The Historical Jesus
Taussig, Hal.  Jesus before God: The Prayer Life of the Historical Jesus.  Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1999.
 
 
Gospel Studies
Barton, Stephen C.  The Spirituality of the Gospels.  Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1994.
 
Brueggemann, Walter.  Ichabod Toward Home: The Journey of God's Glory.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2002.
 
Gench, Frances Taylor.  Back to the Well: Women's Encounters with Jesus in the Gospels.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004.]
 
Longenecker, Richard N., ed.  Into God's Presence: Prayer in the New Testament, McMaster New Testament Series.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2001.
 
McKenna, Megan.  Parables: The Arrows of God.  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1994.
Epistles
 
Acts & Revelation
 
Christian Apocrypha
 
Early Church
 
Mitchell, Margaret M.  The Heavenly Trumpet: John Chrysostom and the Art of Pauline Interpretation.   Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002.
Medieval Interpretation
Krey, Philip D. W. and Lesley Smith, eds.  Nicholas of Lyra: The Senses of Scripture, Studies in the History of Christian Thought 90.  Leiden: Brill, 2000.
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