THE
SPIRITUALITY
of SAINT
BENEDICT
and HIS
DISCIPLES
Saint Benedict, Gherarducci
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SUGGESTED READING
1. SAINT BENEDICT and his RULE
Fry, T. (1980) RB-80: The Rule of St. Benedict in Latin and English. Collegeville. MN.
Casey, M., Strangers to the City: Reflections on the Beliefs and Values of the Rule of St. Benedict (Paraclete Press, 2005).
–– A Guide to Living in the Truth: St. Benedict's Teaching on Humility, (Liguori, 2001)
Delatte, P. Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict, (Wipf and Stock, 1983).
Holdaway, G., The Oblate Life, (Liturgical Press, 2000)
Steward, C., Prayer and Community: The Benedictine Tradition, (Orbis 1998)
Vogüé, A. (1983) The rule of Saint Benedict; a doctrinal and spiritual commentary. Collegeville, MN.
–– Reading Saint Benedict, Reflections on the Rule, (Cistercian Publications/Liturgical Press, 1994) .
–– Gregory the Great: The Life of Saint Benedict, Commentary by Adalbert de Vogüé, OSB (St. Bede's, 1993)
2. EARLY MONASTIC SPIRITUALITY
Brown, P. (1988) The body and society, men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity. New York.
Bamberger, J. (1970) Evagrius Ponticus; the Praktikos, Chapters on Prayer. Collegeville, MN.
Cemus, R. (2003) Historical atlas of eastern and western Christian monasticism. Collegeville, MN.
Chadwick, O. (1968) John Cassian. Cambridge.
Chitty, D. (1966) The desert a city. New York.
Dysinger, L. (2012) “Early Christian Monasticism”, in Wiley-Blackwell, Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Oxford.
–– Dysinger, L., (2019) “The Genre of Exegetical Sentences in Patristic Exegesis,” The Oxford Handbook of Early Biblical Interpretation, Oxford
–– Dysinger, L. “Are We Contemplatives - What is Our Future?,” The Proceedings of the American Benedictine Academy, 1990 (The A.B.A., 1991).
Gregg, R. (1979) Athanasius: the life of Antony and the letter to Marcellinus. Mahwah, NJ.
Knowles, D. (1969) Christian monasticism. New York.
Ramsey, B. (2000) John Cassian: the conferences. (1997) John Cassian: the Institutes. New York.
Rubenson, S. (1995) The letters of St. Antony: monasticism and the making of a saint. Minneapolis, MN.
Veilleux. A. (1980) Pachomian koinonia, 3 vols. Collegeville, MN.
Wagner, M. (1950) Saint Basil: ascetical works. Washington D.C.
Ward, B.(2003) The desert fathers: sayings of the early Christian monks. London.
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3. LECTIO DIVINA
Bianchi, E., (1998) Praying the Word: an introduction to Lectio Divina, Cistercian.
Casey, Michael (1996) Sacred Reading, Chicago.
Cassian, John, Conference 14, “The First Conference of Abba Nesteros - On Spiritual Knowledge”. The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, ser. 2 vol 11 (Grand Rapids, 1976) Available for free download at CCEL.org.
DeLubac, H., Medieval Exegesis, 3 vol.s (Grand Rapids, v.1 1998, v.2 2000, v.3 2009)
Funk, M.M., (2013), Lectio Matters, Liturgical Press, Collegeville.
Guigo II the Carthusian, The Ladder of Monks (Collegeville, 2004).
Hall, T. (1988) Too Deep for Words, Paulist,
Margrassi, M. (1998) Praying the Bible, Liturgical Press, Collegeville.
Robertson, D., Lectio Divina, the Medieval Experience of Reading (Collegeville, 2011)
4. MONASTIC PSALMODY
Gregg, R. (1979) Athanasius: the life of Antony and the letter to Marcellinus. Mahwah, NJ.
–– Dysinger, L. (2015) Evagrius Ponticus: the Psalter as a Handbook for the Christian Contemplative in The Harp of Prophecy: Early Christian Interpretation of the Psalms, ed. Daley and Kolbet, (Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2015)
5. GREGORIAN CHANT
Leclercq, J., The Love of Learning and the Desire for God, A Study of Monastic Culture, (New York, 1982)
Berry, M. (1979) Plainchant for Everyone, An Introduction to Plainsong, London
6. CONTEMPLATIVE EXEGESIS (of Sacred Scripture and the Self)
Leclercq, J., The Love of Learning and the Desire for God, A Study of Monastic Culture, (New York, 1982)
Louth, Andrew, Discerning the Mystery, (Eighth Day Press, 2007). See esp. the last section on allegory.
De Lubac, H. Medieval Exegesis, 3 vol.s Eerdmans 1998.
–– The Sources of Revelation, (Herder, 1968).
Dysinger, L. An Exegetical Way of Seeing: Contemplation and Spiritual Guidance in Evagrius Ponticus,” Studia Patristica 57, (“Papers Presented at the Sixteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held at Oxford, 2011,” ed. M. Vincent, Vol. 5: Evagrius Ponticus on Contemplation, ed. M. Tobon), Peeters, 2013, pp. 31-50.
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7. CONTEMPLATION in the HISTORY of CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
Aumann, Jordan, Spiritual Theology, (Sheed and Ward, 1980).
Louth, Andrew, The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition from Plato to Pseudo-Dionysius, (Oxford University Press, 2007)
McGinn, B. Christian Spirituality: Origins to the Twelfth Century (World Spirituality, No 16) (Crossroad, 1987).
–– Christian Spirituality : High Middle Ages and Reformation (World Spirituality, No 17) (Crossroad, 1988).
–– The Foundations of Mysticism, The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism, vol 1, (SCM Press, 1992).
–– The Growth of Mysticism The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism, vol 2, (Crossroad/Herder & Herder, 1994) .
–– The Flowering of Mysticism: Men and Women in the New Mysticism (1200-1350), The Presence of God, vol 3, (Crossroad/Herder & Herder. 2001).
McGrath, A. Christian Spirituality (Blackwell, 1999).
Sheldrake, P. A Brief History of Spirituality, (Blackwell Publishing, 2007).
Tanquerey, Adolphe, The Spiritual Life, A Treatise on Ascetical and Mystical Theology, (Desclee, New York, 1930)
Tyson, J. Invitation to Christian Spirituality, An Ecumenical Anthology, (Oxford U. Pr., June 1999).
8. MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATIONS
Hamburger, Jeffrey F, “Encounter: The Rothschild Canticles.” Gesta 53 (2) (2014): 125–127.
9. MONOLOGISTIC PRAYER / THE JESUS PRAYER
Anonymous, (1952) The Way of the Pilgrim, multiple publishers, New York, etc.)
Ware, K. (1986) “The Origins of The Jesus Prayer, 5th – 9th cent.”, “The Hesychasts”, and “The Hesychast Renaissance” in Yarnold, E., The Study of Spirituality, Oxford.
Chumley, N, (2011) Mysteries of the Jesus prayer : experiencing the presence of God and a pilgrimage to the heart of an ancient spirituality, New York.
Spidlik, T. (2005) Prayer: The Spirituality of the Christian East, Volume 2, Cistercian.
10. THEOSIS / DIVINIZATION / SANCTIFICATION
Christensen, J & Wittung, J., (2007) Partakers of the Divine Nature, The History and Development of Deification in the Christian Tradition, Baker Academic
Collins, P. (2019) Partaking in Divine Nature, T & T Clark
Finlan and Kharlamov, (2006 & 2011) Theosis, Deification in Christian Theology, volumes 1 & 2, Pickwick.
Keating, D., (2007) Deification and Grace, Sapientia Press.
Krill, P. (2010) Life in the Trinity, A Catholic View of Communion and Deification (self-published, incl. personal reflections and unique interpretations).
Meconi, D & Olson, C. (2016) Called to Be Children of God, The Catholic Theology of Human Deification, Ignatius.
Russell, N. (2004) The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition, Oxford.
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