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devoted as they reflect on Pentecostalism, prayer, spiritual direction and the Church's ministry to the world (Koenig, Cunningham, Schneiders and Faricy). This way of understanding is clearly only one of severa! that might have been employed. As the bibliography indicates, the litera ture of the Spiritual Life is vast; and here, as elsewhere in theology, "pluralism is the name of the game." This little volume is an attempt on the part of its eleven au thors to address what Sandra Schneiders describes as a wid&ly felt need on the part of Christians for spiritual guidance. I wish to thank ali of the authors but especially Edward Malatesta of the Gregorian University's Institute of Spirituality. Without his ad vice and encouragement the Handbook would not have been possible.