READING THE SPIRITUAL CLASSICS:
MINING FOR GOLD IN THE GREAT TRADITION
(SPIR 0544/HIST 0544)
Department of Spiritual Formation
Tyndale Seminary
Fall 2007
Wednesdays 1:00 – 4:00pm
Instructor: Stephen Kern
Meetings with students by appointment
(905) 713 1578 (home)
email: [email protected]
I. Pre-requisites: To participate fully and gain greatest benefit from the class, it is
helpful for students to have completed "Foundations of Christian Spirituality"
(SPIR 0542) and "History of Christianity 1" (HIST 0561).
II. Course Description: The last decade of the second millennium has seen an
upwelling of interest in spirituality, both Christian and other. This seminar
course provides the opportunity to critically read acknowledged classics of
Christian spirituality in a community of devotion and scholarship. The historical,
spiritual and cultural context of authors such as Augustine, Cassian, Benedict,
Bernard of Clairvaux, Julian of Norwich, Martin Luther, John Wesley and Amy
Carmichael will be discussed. Particular attention will be placed on theological
themes, dominant spiritual imagery, role of Scripture and the life of faith in each
author.
III. This course is meant to assist students reach, among others, the following
goals:
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Gain historical and theological grounding for accompanying others in the
spiritual life.
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Develop critical tools for understanding, analyzing and appropriating
spiritual wisdom from classic texts (an appropriative hermeneutic).
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Deepen and develop one's own prayer life through the cultivation of an
appropriate spirituality.
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Grow in appreciation for the broader history and experience of the
universal church.
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Become more deeply rooted in one's understanding and practice of
Christian living, in order to hone discernment of contemporary movements and
practices of spirituality.
IV. Course requirements and assignments: There is no final exam or major paper.
Required Textbooks: Due to the survey nature of this course no one textbook is
available. Please purchase the reading pack for this course. A majority of the
required texts are in the public domain and are found on the web or are listed on
reserve. See the class handout for locating these works.
1. Due to the seminar format of the course, attendance is desired for all classes.
Please see the attached attendance guidelines. Furthermore, as we seek to
develop a community of both scholarship and devotion, preparation for each
seminar is mandatory. Please phone if you will not be able to attend class.
2. Reading is to be done slowly, reflectively, approximately 18 pages per hour.
Interact with the text critically, devotionally, prayerfully. (Approximately 50
pages or 3 hours per week).
3. Reflection/Response to one reading of your choice each week. Grasp at least
one significant theme in each reading and write 1-2 page (typed) per reading
assignment. The issue may be personal, theological/doctrinal or something that
disturbed or excited you. A key question throughout the course is, what can be
critically appropriated from this author for application in our postmodern
world? This may form the basis of your contribution to each week's discussion.
To be completed before each seminar, typed, and handed in. (Approximately 2
hour per week). No more than 2 types pages.
4. Report on your prayer life. In September, begin to monitor your personal and
corporate prayer. Nov. 7, submit a 2-3 page typed report reflecting upon your
prayer life. (Approximately 2 hours total).
a. Describe your prayer. According to your prayer, how do you relate to
God?
b. Does your prayer help you grow in faith, hope and love?
c. Is there variety in your prayers- adoration, praise, confession,
thanksgiving, supplication, and intercession?
d. Describe your general approach to prayer. Do you long to pray or
procrastinate? Why?
e. Do your prayers reflect broad biblical themes?
5. Prepare a handout and facilitate the 45 minute discussion around one reading
of your choice. See guidelines below, (approximately 5 hours total). Or, write a
five page paper on one author of your choice, in consultation with the instructor.
Identify several main themes from the writer, comment on them, and discuss the
possibility of how this teaching can inform and guide contemporary Christian
living.
6. Write a five-page reflection paper to be handed in during exam week
describing your spiritual experience during the course. How, if at all, has your
vision of the Christian life been challenged by our course readings? What do you
learn about yourself from your responses to certain authors? How has your
understanding of the life of faith grown and been challenged? Which writers
kindled your love for God? How? How will you attempt, with God as your
helper, to integrate one major learning into your life? How, if at all, will your
experience in this course impact your ministry? (Approximately 5 hours total).
Evaluation
1. Weekly reading responses
2. Seminar facilitation or 5 page paper
3. Reflection paper (due Friday, April 30).
4. Amount of weekly readings completed
5. Prayer report
40%
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10%
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Auditing students are expected to complete the readings and contribute to class
discussions.
Guidelines for small group discussion in Reading the Spiritual Classics.
1. Read your text closely, we will be focusing on the text the class is reading, so
spend most of your time in the text and reflecting upon it.
2. Print up a one page (both sides recommended) flyer for each one of the class.
In it please include:
part A. What is the writer saying? Here make a synopsis or abstract of
what the author is saying. Point-form bullets are fine. Offer no interpretation
here or comment other than concisely and precisely summing up what is being
said. This is where major themes are brought out.
part B. What does it mean? Here interpretation and application to
contemporary spiritual living is made to draw out the ramifications or
implications of what is being said by the author. In other words, what difference
does it make to us? How does this teaching affect us today?
part C. Here, I would like you to offer questions and discussion ideas for
when we break up into small groups. (You must answer these questions in your
handed-in copy.) We will need enough material to keep each group going for
about 30 minutes, about 4/5 questions. Here, you want to draw out how people
responded to the text being studied, what they agreed with or disagreed with,
how the main ideas of the text are relevant to us in a postmodern world. Or, you
may want to get the group to accomplish something as a result of their
discussion.
As facilitator, you will be responsible for leading the entire class in a discussion
of your presentation of parts A and B, as well as give instructions when we break
up into our smaller groups. The time, a strict 45 minutes (including small group
time), is yours to lead.
Evaluation will take into consideration the accuracy and completeness of part A,
the insight and command of the material demonstrated in part B and the
relevance of part C. Also, creativity and ability to lead a discussion will be
considered.
Topics:
I strive to offer a selection of female and male writers from ancient to modern
times, representing a diversity of traditions - Reformed, Roman Catholic,
Wesleyan, Lutheran, Orthodox, Baptist, Anglican. The western bias reflects the
largely Latin root of Protestantism, though selections from the Church Fathers
and The Way of a Pilgrim attempt to point students to the east. There is of course
in this genre a leaning toward the mystical path of discipleship.
1. Course introduction: Wednesday, Sept 12. Please read the Didache before our
first class. For websites, see below.
overview of the course
what constitutes a classic?
definitions and types of spirituality
issues in the academic study of
spirituality
introduction: early monasticism, The Didache,
Lecture Introducing The Life of St. Anthony.
2. Early Christian Spirituality: Sept 19
Spirituality as Battle: The Life of St. Anthony. The father of monasticism, Spiritual
warfare, asceticism as a spiritual path.
Lecture Introducing Climacus and Orthodox spirituality, and the crucicentric
spirituality of Amy Carmichael.
3. The spiritual life as ascent: Sept 26.
Discussion: John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent (c 640). Climacus
provides a close study of sin in the heart of believers.
Discussion: Amy Carmichael’s poem, If.
Lecture: Introducing Cassian and Augustine.
4. Western Monasticism and Augustinian Spirituality. Oct 3
Discussion: Spirituality as training: Cassian's Conference 9. Images of the Spiritual
Life.
Discussion- Spirituality as conversion: Augustine's Confessions (c 400).
Unpacking the conversion process, spirituality as “on-going” conversion.
Lecture: Introducing Benedict and Bernard.
5. The developing Western monastic movement. Oct 10
Discussion: The Rule of Benedict (c 525). What role do poverty, chastity and
obedience play in evangelical spirituality?
Discussion: Bernard of Clairvaux- On Loving God (c 1130). Love, mysticism and
the Spiritual life.
Lecture: Introducing anchoritic spirituality, and Dame Julian of Norwich.
6. Julian of Norwich- Personal experience as a source of mystical theology. Oct
17.
Discussion: Julian of Norwich- Revelations of Divine Love a.k.a. Showings,
(C 1393). In Him there is no wrath…all shall be well…the feminine Jesus.
Lecture: Introducing aKempis
7. Late Medieval period cont. Oct 24. (Remember, prayer report due Nov 7).
Discussion: Thomas a Kempis- The Imitation of Christ (c 1418). The Christian Life
as imitation. Lecture: Introducing Calvin
8. Reformation. Oct 31. All Saints’ Eve.
Discussion: John Calvin- Institutes of the Christian Religion 3.6-3.10 “On the life of
the Christian.” (1559)
Lecture: Introducing the Spanish Reformation, John of the Cross and Teresa of
Jesus.
9. Catholic Reformation, Spanish Mysticism. Nov 7.
Discussion: Ignatius of Loyola- (selections (c 1548) and Ignatian Spirituality
Discussion: Teresa of Avila- (selections ) Life (c 1568).
Lecture: Introducing apophatic spirituality and the way of negation.
10. Nov 7. Catholic Reformation in Spain, continued. Nov 14.
Discussion: John of the Cross- (selections) The Dark Night (c 1579)
Lecture: Introducing pietism (Spener) and J. Edwards.
11. Pietism. Nov. 21.
Discussion: Philip Spener- Pia Desideria (1675). Points of evangelical resonance
with Pietism.
Discussion: Jonathon Edwards’ Hagiography- The Life of David Brainerd (1749).
Zeal, darkness, depression and the Spiritual Life.
Lecture: Introducing incessant prayer, Russian style.
12. Late 19th Century. Nov 28.
Discussion: From Russia with love- The Way of a Pilgrim (1884)
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Lecture: A 20 Century Spiritual Master- Evelyn Underhill.
13. Twentieth Century. Dec 5.
Discussion: Evelyn Underhill-The House of the Soul and Virtuous Living.
Lecture: Conclusions
14. Reflection paper due Friday, Dec 14, 4:30PM.
Expectation for written work.
Written work ought to be free of spelling mistakes and use proper punctuation
and follow basic rules of grammar. Clear straightforward academic prose is best.
By reflection, I mean a reasoned response to the written material that makes use
of one's theological knowledge, insight from cognate fields as well as personal
experience. This implies a critical response to a pertinent topic raised in the
material. Submitted prayers ought to be crafted in such a way as to clearly make
use of images or insights of the writer studied.
Regarding plagiarism, students are expected to have read Tyndale's policy on
Academic honesty. I have zero tolerance for plagiarism.
In order to prevent students from getting behind, I will accept weekly reflection
papers only one week overdue. Late prayer reports and final reflection papers
will be docked 1/3 a letter grade per week lateness. No assignments will be
accepted after May 15.
Reading Material for Reading the Spiritual Classics
In order to keep costs for the course to a minimum, and to honor copyright laws
regarding photocopying, I provided websites for you to read the material online
or to download for yourself. You are required to read only the primary source
material, and are welcome to read relevant introductions and notes. You will
find other copies listed in the class bibliography in the library at U of T if that
helps.
Week 1 readings. The Didache can be found at
www.voskrese.info/spl/didache.html.
Week 2 readings. The Life of St. Anthony
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/vita-antony.html . Please read in its entirety.
The introductory material at the beginning of the Life is interesting, largely dated,
and not compulsory.
Week 3 readings. Please read from John Climacus' The Ladder of Divine Ascent,
steps 8-18. Photocopies are available. I have electronic copy of Carmichael’s If.
Week 4 readings. For John Cassian's Conferences, read conference IX, the first
conference of Abbot Isaac: On Prayer:
www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf211.iv.iv.x.i.html . Also read Augustine's
Confessions, books 8 and 9 in Outler's translation. Chapter 8 begins at
www.ccel.org/ccel/augustine/confessions.xi.html .
Week 5 readings. Read all of Benedict’s, The Rule of Benedict, found at
http://www.osb.org/rb/text/toc.html#toc . Bernard of Clairvaux's On Loving God
found at: www.ccel.org/ccel/bernard/loving_god.ii.html .
Week 6 readings. Please read revelation fourteen of Julian of Norwich's
Revelations of Divine Love. It is made up of chapters 41-63 of the long text of the
Revelations, or Shewings http://www.ccel.org/ccel/julian/revelations.i.i.html . James
Walsh's translation for Paulist Press uses more contemporary language and is on
reserve. Be sure to read the long text version.
Week 7. Read selections from the Imitation of Christ, found at
http://www.ccel.org/k/kempis/imitation2/htm/TOC.htm under T for Thomas a
Kempis. Under these themes, please read the following chapters:
Invitation- chap. 1 OF BOOK ONE. ALL THE REST ARE FROM BOOK
THREE.
Spiritual freedom- chapters 10,11,12,16,17,31,32,37,56.
Endurance- 9,18,19, 29,47,57
Grace- 5,7,34,52-55.
Week 8 reading- John Calvin on “The Life of the Christian”
www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/chr_life.titlepage.html . This is from the Institutes
Book III, chapters VI- X. Battles’ modern translation is found in the reference
section, call # BX 9420.I69 B 37, 1980.
Week 9: Read the below listed selections from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
Spiritual Exercises as photocopied for you. They are also found at
http://www.ccel.org/i/ignatius/exercises/exercises_ToC.html . Please read
sections "Principle and Foundations, the Fourth Day- Mediation on the two
standards and Three Pairs of Men, Rules for Perceiving and Knowing in Some
Manner the Different Movements Which are Caused in the Soul, Rules for the
Discernment of Spirits, Prelude for Making Election, Matter for Election, Times
for Making Election." You can download the entire exercises in PDF from
www.jesuit.org/Spirituality/Spiritual+Exercises/110.aspx .
Please also read from the Life or Autobiography of Teresa de Avila (a.k.a. Teresa
de Jesus) . Read the prologue and the relevant chapters on prayer, chapters XIXXII, and XXV found at website, www.intratext.com/X/ENG0032.htm .
Week 10 . John of the Cross’ Dark Night. We will read from Book One, chapters
1,3,6,7-14 at www.karmel.at/ics/john/dn.html .
Week 11 readings. Please read Spener's Pia Desideria as photocopied, pages 30-38,
76-122.
Please also read The Life and Diary of the Rev.David Brainerd with Notes and
Reflections, edited by Jonathan Edwards. It is at
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/edwards/works2.toc.html (you have to scroll down the
table of contentsabout half way to section VIII to see the outline for the diary and
life of David Brainerd. Read part I, part VII, VIII of Brainerd’s life. It is also found
in the collected works of Jonathan Edwards in the library.
Week 12 readings. Please read The Way of a Pilgrim, as photocopied, chapters 1-4.
Week 13 readings. Please read Evelyn Underhill's House of the Soul in its entirety.
It is available as photocopies.
Select Bibliography
1. Didache
"The Teaching of the Twelve Disciples", Robert Kraft, trans., in The Apostalic Fathers, Jack Sparks
ed. Nashville, Nekon, 1978: 308-319.
Aumann, Jordon. Christian Spirituality in the Catholic Tradition. London: Sheed and Ward, 1985,
Chapter 2,"Spirituality of the Early Church," pp. 19-34.
Draper, J.A. "Weber, Theissen, and 'Wandering Charismatics' in the Didache ." Journal of Early
Christian Studies 6/4 (1998): 541-576.
Milavec, Aaron. "Distinguishing True and False Prophets: The Protective Wisdom of the
Didache." Journal of Early Christian Studies 2/2 (1994): 117-136.
Niederwimmer, Kurt. The Didache. Translated by Linda Maloney. Minneapolis: Fortress Press,
1998.
Schaff, Philip. The Teaching of the Twelve Disciples. NY: Funk and Wagnalls, 1890.
2. Athanasius, The Life of St. Anthony, vol. iv in A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
of the Christian Church. Oxford: James Parker & Co., 1892.
_____. The Life of St. Anthony. Robert Meyer, translator. NY: Newman Press, 1978.
Gregg, Robert, trans., Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinius, in the series
Classics of Western Spirituality . SPCK/Paulist.
3. Cassian
Gibson, Edgar, The Works ofJohn Cassian, vol. 11 in A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene
Fathers of the Christian Church. Oxford: James Parker & Co., 1894:
See also the very helpful contempory application of Cassian in:
Russell, Kenneth, Healing the Heart, Desert Wisdom for a Busy World,. Toronto : Novalis, 1993.
For further reading:
Anson, Peter. The Call of the Desert. London: SPCK, 1973.
Chadwick, Owen. "John Cassian." In The Study of Spirituality . Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey
Wainwright and Edward Yarnold, Eds. NY: Oxford University Press, 1986, pp. 145-147.
_____. John Cassian: A Study in Primitive Monasticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1950.
Chitty, Derwas James. The Desert a City. Oxford: Blackwell, 1966.
4.Augustine
Augustine of Hippo: Selected Writings. Trans. Mary T. Clark. NY: Paulist, 1984.
The Confessions ofSt. Augustine. Trans. E.M. Blaiklock. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983.
Burke, Vernon. "Augustine of Hippo: The Approach of the Soul to God." In, Rozanne Elder, Ed.
The Spirituality of Western Christendom. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, Inc. 1978 (1976),
pp. 1-12.
Burnaby, John. Amor Dei: A Study of the Religion of St. Augustine (1960).
Clark, Mary T. "Augustine: The Eye of the Heart." Spiritualitites of the Heart. Ed. Annice Callahan.
NY:Paulist, 1990, pp. 23-32.
Finley, Mitch. Catholic Spiritual Classics. Kansas City, MO: Sheed and Ward, 1987, pp. 7-12.
Laporte, Jean-Marc. "Chapter Four: Augustine of Hippo: Grace for a Dying Age." Patience and
Power: Grace for the First World. NY:Paulist Press, 1988, pp. 149-193.
5. The Rule of Benedict
Benedict of Nursa. 1980: The Rule of St. Benedict in Latin and English with Notes.
Fry, O.S.B. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1981.
Chittister, Joan D. Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St.
Francisco: Harper and Row, 1990.
Ed. Timothy
Benedict Today. San
_____. TheRule of Benedict- Insights for the Ages . Crossroad.
DeVogue, Adalbert. The Rule of St. Benedict: A Doctrinal and Spiritual Commentary. Cistercian
Studies Series, vol. 54. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1983.
de Waal, Esther. Living with Contradiction: An Introduction to Benedictine Spirituality. Harrisburg,
PA: Moorehouse Publishing, 1989, 1997.
McCann, Justin. Saint Benedict. NY: Doubleday, 1958.
6.John Climacus
John Climacus. The Ladder of Divine Ascent. Trans. by Colm Luibheid and Norman Russell. Classics
of Western Spirituality. NY: Paulist Press, 1982.
Helpful for providing context is:
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection. Trans. Benedicta Ward.Cistercian
Studies Series, vol. 59. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1975.
Ware, Kallistos. "The Origins of the Jesus Prayer: Diadochus, Gaza, Sinai." In The Study of
Spirituality . Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright and Edward Yarnold, Eds. NY: Oxford
University Press, 1986, pp. 175-184.
7.Bernard of Clairvaux
Bernard of Clairvaux. The Love of God. Portland, OR: Multnomah, 1983.
Bernard of Clairvaux. Trans. Gillian Evans, ed. Richard Payne. NY: Paulist, 1987.
Bernard of Clairvaux.On Loving God . Cistercians Fathers Series, vol 13: The Works
Bernard of Clairvaux. Washington, DC: Cistercian
Publications, 1974.
Gilson, Etienne. The Mystical Theology of Saint Bernard. Trans. A.H.C.
and Ward, 1939.
of
Downers. NY: Sheed
Summerfeldt, John. "Bernard of Clairvaux: The Mystic and Society." In, Rozanne Elder, Ed. The
Spirituality of Western Christendom. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, Inc. 1978 (1976), pp.
72-84.
8. Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich. Showings. Tr ans. Edmund College and James Walsh. New York: Paulist, 1978.
See also:
Dryer, Elizabeth. "Julian of Norwich: Her Merry Counsel." America (August 5, 1978), 55-57.
Finley, Mitch. Catholic Spiritual Classics. Kansas City, MO: Sheed and Ward, 1987, pp. 13-17.
Jantzen, Grace. Julian of Norwich: Mystic and Theologian. London:SPCK, 1987.
Llwewlyn, Robert. All Shall Be Well: The Spirituality of Julian of Norwich for Today. NY:Paulist, 1982.
Nuth, Joan. Wisdom's Daughter: The Theology of Julian of Norwich. NY: Crossroad, 1991.
Pelphrey, Brant. Christ Our Mother: Julian of Norwich . London:Darton, Longman and Todd, 1989.
Szarmach, Paul, Ed. An Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe. Albany: SUNY Press, 1984,
pp. 195-216, 352-354.
Tugwell, Simon, O.P. Ways of Imperfection . Springfield, MO: Templegate Publishers, 1985, pp.
187-207.
Underhill, Evelyn. Mysticism. NY:Dutton, 1961. An "unparalled classic in the field."
9 Thomas a Kempis
Thomas a Kempis- The Imitation of Christ . Trans. William Creasy. Notre Dame, IN:
AveMaria, 1989.
10. Theologia Germanica
The Theologia Germanica of Martin Luther. Trans., Intro. and Commentary by
NY: Paulist Press, 1980.
See also:
Jones, Rufus. Studies in Mystical Religion. London: Macmillan, 1909.
Bengt Hoffman.
Finley, Mitch. Catholic Spiritual Classics. Kansas City, MO: Sheed and Ward, 1987, pp. 1-6.
11. Reformation:
Martin Luther
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Dillenberger. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1961, 42-85.
Luther, Martin. "A Simple Way to Pray." Vol. 43 of Luther's Works. Ed. Gustav Wiencke.
Philadelphia: Fortress, 1968, 193-211.
See also:
Althaus, Paul. The Theology of Martin Luther. Trans. Robert C. Schultz. Philadelphia: Fortress
Press, 1966.
Bainton, Roland. Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther. NY:Abingdon, 1950.
Denef, Lawrence. "Praying the Catechism:Spirituality as Luther Envisioned It." Lutheran Forum
19/4 (1985), pp. 17-19.
Reinke, Darrell. "Martin Luther: Language and Devotional Consciousness." In, Rozanne Elder,
Ed. The Spirituality of Western Christendom. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, Inc. 1978
(1976), pp. 152- 168.
Wicks, Jared, Ed. Luther and His Spiritual Legacy. Wilmington, Del.: Mich ael Glazier, Inc., 1983.
_____. "Martin Luther: The Heart Clinging to the Word." In Annice Callahan, R.S.C.J. Spiritualities
of the Heart. New York: Paulist, 1990, pp. 79-96.
Wood, Arthur Skevington. "Spirit and Spirituality in Luther." The Evangelical Quarterly 61
(October 1989), pp. 311-333.
Senn, Frank., Ed. Protestant Spiritual Traditions. NY:Paulist, 1986.
12. John Calvin
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indexed by Ford Lewis Battles. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press 1960.
_____. Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life . Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1952.
Battles, Ford Lewis, Trans.& Ed. The Piety of John Calvin . Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1978,
Grundler, Otto. "John Calvin: Ingrafting into Christ." In, Rozanne Elder, Ed. The Spirituality of
Western Christendom. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, Inc. 1978 (1976), pp. 169-187.
Kessler, Diane. "The Forms of Protestant Spirituality: Reclaiming our Roots." Ecumenism 116 (Dec.
1994): 30-35. A helpful overview.
Leith, John H. John Calvin's Doctrine of the Christian Life. Philidelphia: Westminster, 1989.
Richard, Lucien Joseph. The Spirituality of John Calvin. John Knox Press,
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13. Ignatius Loyola
Ignatius Loyola. The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola. Trans. Elisabeth Meier
Tetlow. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987.
_____. The Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola. Trans.Parmananda R. Divarkar. Ignatius
Loyola. Ed. George E. Ganss. New York: Paulist Press, 1991, 66-111.
Bangert, William, S.J. A History of the Society of Jesus. 2nd. Edition. St. Louis:
Jesuit Sources, 1986.
Institute of
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171-188.
Evenett, H. Outram. The Spirit of the Counter-Reformation. Notre Dame:
Dame, 1970.
University of Notre
Egan, Harvey S.J. "Ignatius of Loyola: Mystic at the Heart of the Trinity, Mystic at the Heart of
Jesus Christ." In Annice Callahan , R.S.C.J. Spiritualities of the Heart. New York: Paulist, 1990, pp.
97-113.
14. John of the Cross
John of the Cross. The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross. Trans. Kieran
Kavanaugh,
O.C. D. and Otilio Rodriguez, O.C. D. Washington,DC: Institute of Carmelite Studies, 1979.
See also:
Dicken, Trueman. The Crucible of Love. NY: Sheed&Ward, 1963.
Egan, Keith." The Symbolism of the Heart in John of the Cross." In Annice
R.S.C.J. Spiritualities of the Heart. New York: Paulist, 1990, pp. 130-142.
Callahan,
Hardy, Richard. Search for Nothing: The Life of St. John of the Cross. NY:Crossroad, 1982.
Kavanaugh, Kieran. John of the Cross: Selected Writings. NY:Paulist Press, 1987.
15. Teresa of Avila
Teresa of Avila. The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila.Vol. II. Trans.
Kieran Kavanaugh,
O.C. D. and Otilio Rodriguez, O.C. D. Washington,DC: Institute of Carmelite Studies, 1980.
See:
Brennan, Margaret. "Teresa of Avila...'Undaunted Daughter of Desire.'" In Annice
Callahan, R.S.C.J. Spiritualities of the Heart. New York: Paulist, 1990, pp. 114-129.
Burrows, Ruth. Fire Upon the Earth.St.Teresa's Teaching on the Life of Deep Union
Interior Castle Explored. Denville, NJ: Dimension, 1981.
with God:
Green, Deirdre. Gold in the Crucible: Teresa of Avila and the Western Mystical
Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element, 1989.
Tradition .
Haneman, Sr. Mary Alphonsetta. The Spirituality of St. Teresa of Avila .
Paul, 1983.
Boston: Daughters of St.
Weber, Alison. "The Way of Perfection and the Rhetoric of Irony." Teresa of Avilan and the Rhetoric of
Femininity. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990, pp. 77-97. (bx4700.t4w45)
16. Baxter, Richard.
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Baxter, Richard.The Saints Everlasting Rest. Abridged with an Introduction by John Wilkinson.
London: Epworth Press, 1962 (version used).
Cohen, Charles Lloyd. God's Caress, The Psychology of Puritan Religious Experience. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1986.
Ladell, A.R. Richard Baxter: Puritan and Mystic . London: SPCK, 1925.
Martin, Hugh. Puritanism and Richard Baxter. London: SCM Press, Ltd., 1954.
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