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1) Apophatic and Kataphatic Theology: The Spirituality of the New Testament
Week 1: Introd.; theosis, apophatic and kataphatic theology; NT and OT texts.
The Transfiguration of the Lord; (the Descent into hell; St. Paul as Visionary and Mystic).
2) Jewish and Ancient Mediterranean Spirituality
Week 2: What is the Vision of God? Plato, Philo, Enoch [prophet],
Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Philo of Alexandria, The Book of Enoch, selections.
3) Prayer and Mystical Vision in the Persecuted Church
Week 3: Perpetua [prophet/virgin/martyr], monastic founders' visions; Ignatius; Didache on new role of clergy [successors of prophets/teachers] Irenaeus' mystical theology
Ignatius of Antioch; The Didache; Irenaeus; Polycarp of Smyrna; The Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and Felicity; Tertullian; Cyprian. READINGS: Tyson, pp. 54-68; Tugwell 1-12.
4) Christian Neo-Platonism and the Beginnings of Mystical Theology
Plotinus; Clement of Alexandria; Origen. READINGS: Tyson, pp. 69-79.
5) Christological Controversies and the meaning of “Theosis”
Athanasius; Macrina; Basil, Gregory Nazianzen; Gregory of Nyssa. READINGS: Tyson, pp. 86-97.
6) Early Monastic Spirituality
Antony; Pachomius; Evagrius; The Sayings (Apophthegmata) and Lives of the Desert Fathers; Sulpicius Severus; Martin; (Pseudo-)Macarius; John Cassian; Benedict. READINGS: Tyson, pp. 86-87; 113-118; 124-125. Tugwell 13-36.
7) Syrian Christianity
Aphraates of Persia; Ephrem the deacon; Isaac of Ninevah. READINGS: Tyson, pp. 69-79; Tugwell 47-58.
8) Excursus: Getting Out of Hell – the Apokatastasis
Origen; Gregory of Nyssa; Evagrius; Isaac of Ninevah; Justinian.
9) The Latin Mystical Tradition
Ambrose; Jerome, Augustine; Gregory the Great. READINGS: Tyson, pp. 99-111; Tugwell 37-46, 59-92.
10) Liturgical Mysticism and Apophatic Theology
Cyril of Jerusalem; Eucherius of Lyons; Dionysius the Areopagite; Maximus Confessor; Suger of St. Denis; Books of Hours; The Golden Legend (on the Mass) READINGS: Tyson, pp. 120-136.
11) Byzantine Spirituality: Hesychasm and Icons
Diadochus of Photike; John Damascene; John Climacus; Barsanuphius and John of Gaza; Symeon the New Theologian; Gregory of Sinai; Gregory Pallamas. READINGS: Tyson, pp. 137-138.
12) Celtic Spirituality
Patrick; Columbanus; the Irish Penitentials.
13) Monastic Reform Movements
Anselm; Benedict of Aniane; Smaragdus; Amalarius of Metz; Bruno; Romuald; Peter Damian; Bernard of Clairvaux. READINGS: Tyson, pp. 140-149.
14) Medieval Monastic Spirituality
Aelred; Peter the Venerable; Hildegard; Gertrude; Mechtild. READINGS: Tyson, pp. 153-158, 168-171; Tugwell 93-124.
15) The Spirituality of the New Orders
Norbert; Francis; Clare; Bonaventure, Dominic; Thomas Aquinas; Catherine of Sienna; Julian of Norwich, Meister Eckhart. READINGS: Tyson, pp. 159-167; 172-187; Tugwell 125-151.
16) Late Medieval Spirituality: The Devotio Moderna and the Brethren of the Common Life
Thomas a’ Kempis; Florence Radewijns; Gerhard Groote; Ludolph of Saxony; Catherine of Genoa. READINGS: Tyson, pp. 188-203; Tugwell 152-207.
17) Christian Humanism and the Philosophia Christi
Erasmus of Rotterdam; John Colet; Thomas More. READINGS: Tyson, pp. 217-222.
18) Spirituality of the Protestant Reformers
Martin Luther; Jean Calvin; Ulrich Zwingli; Thomas Cranmer. READINGS: Tyson, pp. 211-216, 222-235, 240-244.
19) Spirituality of the Catholic and Counter Reformations and the Reorientation of Religious Life
Ignatius Loyola; Teresa of Avila; John of the Cross; Augustine Baker. READINGS: Tyson, 206-210, 244-269.
20) Early-Modern Spirituality
George Herbert; Francis De Sales; Jean-Pierre de Coussade, Blaise Pascal; John and Charles Wesley; Jonathan Edwards;. READINGS: Tyson, 270-335; Tugwell, 208-232.
21) Refoundation and Romantic Renewal
Gueranger; Placid and Maurus Wolter; John Henry Newman; Soren Kierkegaard; Therese of Lisieux. READINGS: Tyson, 354-369; Tugwell, 208-232.
22) Contemporary Spirituality
Evelyn Underhill; Columba Marmion; Edith Stein; C.S. Lewis; Vatican II; Mother Teresa; Pope John Paul II. READINGS: Tyson, 376-462.