Spiritual Classics

An anthology edited by Richard J. Foster and Emilie Griffin, published by HarperSanFrancisco in 2000 with the subtitle Selected Readings on the Twelve Spiritual Disciplines. It is a companion to Devotional Classics (1993), which Foster edited with James Bryan Smith, and is arranged around the twelve disciplines of his own Celebration of Discipline (1978). Its fifty-two selections come from nearly two thousand years of Christian writing; the authors represented include Hildegard of Bingen, Hannah More, Gerard Manley Hopkins, G. K. Chesterton, Evelyn Underhill, Amy Carmichael and Frederick Buechner. Each selection is given a profile of its author, a meditation, questions for discussion and exercises for individuals or groups, and Foster adds a personal reflection on each. The editors also recommend further reading.