SUGGESTED READING 

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Brown, P. (1988) The body and society, men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity. New York.

Cemus. R. (2003) Historical atlas of eastern and western Christian monasticism. Collegeville, MN.

Dysinger, L. (2012) “Early Christian Monasticism”, in Wiley-Blackwell, Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Oxford.

− “The Benedictine Foundations in Xishan and Chengdu, 1929-1952”, Mission and Monasticism, Studia Anselmiana 158, Analecta Monastica 13, (Sant’ Anselmo, Rome; EOS Verlag, Germany, 2013), pp. 185-195.

− “The Benedictine Missionary Movement (Gerard Van Caloen)”.

Farmer, D.H., Benedict's Disciples, Fowler Wright (1980).

Reese, D.,“The Benedictine Revival in the Nineteenth Century” in Farmer, Disciples.

Knowles, D. (1969) Christian monasticism. New York.

Louf, Teach us to Pray, (out-of-print)

Reese, Daniel, Consider Your Call: A Theology of Monastic Life Today, (Cistercian, 1978).

Rippinger, J., The Benedictine Order in the United States, An Interpretive History, (Liturgical Press, Collegeville, 1980).

Stewart, C. Prayer and Community, The Benedictine Tradition, (Orbis, 1998)

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Dysinger, L. “The Benedictine Foundations in Xishan and Chengdu, 1929-1952”, Mission and Monasticism, Studia Anselmiana 158, Analecta Monastica 13, (Sant’ Anselmo, Rome; EOS Verlag, Germany, 2013), pp. 185-195.

− “The Benedictine Missionary Movement (Gerard Van Caloen, Abbot Neve, Vincent Lebbe)”.

Nicolini-Zani, Matteo,  Christian Monks on Chinese Soil: a history of monastic missions to China, (Collegeville, Minnesota,  Liturgical Press, 2016).

(1) “The Belgian Benedictines: Prophets of a Chinese Monasticism,” pp. 190-243;

(2) Appendix 2, “‘The Monastery Will Be a Chinese House:’ Three Texts of Jehan Joliet:” “A Project for a Chinese Monastery” (1922) 321-325; “A Monastic Task" (1928) pp. 325-328 “Monastic Formation in China” (1930) pp. 328-333.

− “‘The Monastery Will Be a Chinese House:’ The Inculturation of the Church in China from the Perspective of the History of Catholic Monasticism,” Religions & Christianity in Today's China, Vol. VII, 2017, No. 3, pp. 41-53.

Endres, David, “The Legacy of Thaddeus Yang”, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, vol. 34, no. 1 Jan 2010, pp. 23-28

Vincent-Martin, “Mainland China Revisited”.

Yong An-Yuen, Thaddeus, (autobiographical essays) “From Buddha to Benedict”
− “The Chinese Adventures of an Indonesian Monk”
− “China’s Premier Catholic Monk (Liu Tseng-Tsiang)”.  ”

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Bamberger, J. (1970) Evagrius Ponticus; the praktikos, chapters on prayer. Collegeville, MN.

Chadwick, O. (1968) John Cassian. Cambridge.

Chitty, D. (1966) The desert a city. New York.

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.

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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7. lectio divina

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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

Casey, Michael, Sacred Reading, (Chicago, 1996).

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)

Guigo II the Carthusian, The Ladder of Monks (Collegeville, 2004).

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.