The SCM Studyguide to Christian Spirituality is designed as an introduction to spirituality for students of all religious backgrounds coming to the subject for the first time.

The book begins with the question, what is Christian spirituality? The definition comes through a series of investigations looking at spirituality and Christianity, spirituality and materiality, spirituality and the Arts, spirituality and ethics, spirituality and world faiths and finally spirituality and the psyche. The later half of the book explores the Christian spiritual tradition through the study of a variety of spiritual writers. Writings are taken from many different periods of history and are considered under three headings; spirituality drawn from light and affirmation, spirituality encountered through darkness and desert, and spirituality encountered through love and union.