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Christ the Vine |
1. REVIEW of HISTORICAL EPOCHS (Weeks 1-3; 6 hrs.) [1.1] 600-1000: Islam; the Diminishing Christian East; The Rise of Empire in the West; [1.2] 1000-1300 The Rise of the Papacy; [1.3] 1300-1500 Nationalism, Schism, & Attempted Reunion. 2. THEMES in MYSTICAL THEOLOGY [1 hr.] [2.1] Apophatic and Kataphatic Theology; [2.2] The Song of Songs; [2.3] The Transfiguration, Theosis, [2.4] The Cathedral (The Passion/Last Judgment). |
3. MODELS and METHODS of SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE [2 hrs.]
[3.1] Chrysostom; [3.2] Benedict; [3.3] Climacus; [3.4] Gregory I; [3.5] Bede; [3.6] Dhuoda; [3.7] Symeon N.Theol.; [3.8] Tract on Confessions; [3.9] Dante; [3.10] Friendship; [3.11] The Ministry of Anchoresses
4. PENANCE and RECONCILIATION [2 hrs.]
[4.1] Early Canons; [4.2] Monastic Spiritual Guidance; [4.3] The Celtic Contribution; [4.4] Penitential Manuals.
5. BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY [2 hrs.]
[5.1] Levels of Meaning; [5.2] Allegory and Commentaries; [5.3] Origen; [5.4] Cassian; [5.5] Gregory the Great; [5.6] Bede; [5.7] Bernard; [5.8] Aquinas and the Catena Aurea
6. LITURGICAL SPIRITUALITY [2 hrs.]
[6.1] Dionysius the Aereopagite; [6.2] Maximus Confessor; [6.3] Gregory the Great; [6.4] Germanus of Constantinople; [6.5] Gregorian Chant; [6.6] Gertrude the Great; [6.7] Marguerite d’Oingt and the Feast of Corpus Christi; [6.8] The Golden Legend
7. MONASTIC SPIRITUALITY
[7.1] Benedictines (Cluny, Suger, Trithemius), [7.2] Camaldolese, [7.3] Carthusians, [7.4] Cistercians (Bernard, Aelred).
8. PILGRIMAGE, CRUSADE, and the MONKS of WAR [2 hrs.]
[8.1] Christians under Moslem Rule; [8.2] The Rule of the Knights Templar; [8.3] The Rule of the Teutonic Knights; [8.4] The Leper-Knights of Lazarus; [8.5] The Carmelites.
9. THE CANONS [2 hrs.]
[9.1] Canons Regular, [9.2] Premonstratensians, [9.3] Victorine Spirituality; [9.4] Augustinians, [9.5] Brethren of the Common Life, [9.6] Staupitz and Luther
10. DOMINICAN SPIRITUALITY [2 hrs.]
[10.1] Albert the Great; [10.2] Thomas Aquinas, [10.3] Meister Eckhart, [10.4] Catherine of Siena
11. FRANCISCAN SPIRITUALITY [2 hrs.]
[11.1] Francis and Clare, [11.2] Third Order Rule, [11.3] Bonaventure
12.SPIRITUAL EXERCISES and POPULAR PIETY [2 hrs.]
[12.1] Medieval Spiritual Exercises, [12.2] Books of Hours and the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary; [12.3] The Rosary; [12.4] the Passion of Christ and the Last Judgment
13.THE CHRISTIAN EAST [2 hrs.]
[13.1] Liturgy as Heaven on Earth; [13.2] Monastery and Parish; [13.3] Mount Athos; [13.4] Hesychasm.
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