TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Kaam,Adrian L.
TI  - Traditional formation / 
T2  - Formative spirituality
SN  - 0824511832
PY  - 1992///
CY  - New York
PB  - Crossroad
KW  - Spiritual life
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Developmental psychology
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Psychology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-349) and index; Exploring traditions -- Formation anthropology and formation tradition -- Human nature and specific formation traditions -- Disclosure of formation traditions -- Form traditional pyramids and changing fields of life -- The structural approach to formation traditions -- Congenial and compatible assimilation and implementation of form traditions -- Commonly and individually deformed traditions -- Transcendent ground of form traditions -- Stability and adaptability of formation traditions -- The ethos of formation traditions -- Form traditional symbols -- Form traditions, human needs, and aspirations -- Traditional form or field directives -- Formation traditions as systems of appraisal -- Alignment of vital dimension and form tradition -- Transcendent form traditions and the vital erotic facet of human love -- Transcendent traditions and transformation of eros -- Wounded eros and transcendent tradition -- Reaffirmation and transcendence of eros in the light of transcendent traditions -- Autism, eros, and the six coformants of love -- Sociohistorical Freudian and transcendent traditions -- Sociohistorical, transcendent, Marxist, and Neo-Freudian traditions -- Transcendent and capitalist traditions -- Formation tradition and formation mystery -- Dealing formatively with failure in one's life call and tradition -- Traditional formation as central in formation science -- Carriers of form traditions -- Dispositional form ; types of tradition ; key situations and symbols -- Common and specific formation traditions : their interformation and articulation -- Interformation and articulation of traditions -- The generic scientific and the tradition specific approaches to human formation in different denominations -- Field of traditional communities, their outreach to others, threefold approach of formation science
ER  -