SUGGESTED READING 

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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).

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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.

Dysinger, Luke, “The Genre of Exegetical Sentences in Patristic Exegesis” in The Oxford Handbook of Early Biblical Interpretation, (Oxford, 2019)

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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. “The Logoi of Providence and Judgment in the Exegetical Writings of Evagrius Ponticus,” Studia Patristica 37 (2001) pp. 462-471.

Dysinger, L., (2019) “The Genre of Exegetical Sentences in Patristic Exegesis,” The Oxford Handbook of Early Biblical Interpretation, Oxford

Dysinger, L. “Exegesis and Spiritual Guidance in Evagrius Ponticus,” Studia Patristica 47 (2010) pp. 462-471.

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.

Ward, B.(2003) The desert fathers: sayings of the early Christian monks. London.

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Gregg, R. (1979) Athanasius: the life of Antony and the letter to Marcellinus. Mahwah, NJ.

Dysinger, L., “The Significance of Psalmody in the Mystical Theology of Evagrius Ponticus,” Studia Patristica 30, (1997), pp. 176-182  

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) 

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Fry, T. (1980) RB-80: The Rule of St. Benedict in Latin and English. Collegeville. MN.

Vogüé, A. (1983) The rule of Saint Benedict; a doctrinal and spiritual commentary. Collegeville, MN.

Wagner, M. (1950) Saint Basil: ascetical works. Washington D.C.

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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

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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)

Dysinger, L. (1990) Accepting the Embrace of God, The Ancient Art of Lectio Divina (a how-to-do-it article).

Dysinger, L. (2008) Lectio Divina, in Collegeville Handbook for Oblates (a more theoretical and historical article) Collegeville, MN.

Dysinger, L. (2017) The Modern Recovery of Lectio Divina, in The The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

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)

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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

Dysinger, L. (2019)“Theosis/Deification in Benedict of Nursia and Gregory the Great: Contemplating Christ in The Other and in The Self,” in  Deification in the Latin Patristic Tradition, ed. Jared Ortiz, Chapter 13 (Catholic University of America Press) pp. 253-271.

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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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.

–– “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)