Course Description
The history of Catholic Spirituality from the 16th century to the 21st century is richly significant in the lives and teachings of the Church’s saints, in the Church’s missionary expansion, and in the Church’s witness in a world experiencing profound intellectual, scientific, and general cultural ferment. The purpose of this course will be to review the development of Catholic spirituality across these centuries with special emphasis on the new religious orders founded during this period, especially the (reformed) Carmelites and the Jesuits. It will consider also the continuing influence of monastic and mendicant spiritualities and the renewed interest in ‘spirituality’ in our own day.
Bibliography
AUMANN, OP, Christian Spirituality in the Catholic Tradition, Sheed and Ward, London, 1985.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA, Spiritual Exercises and Selected Works in The Classics of Western Spirituality, Paulist Press, New York, 1981.
JOHN of the CROSS, The Collected Words of St. John of the Cross, trans. Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD, Institute of Carmelite Studies Publications, Washington, D.C., 1981.
TERESA OF AVILA, The Life of Teresa of Jesus, trans. Allison Peers, Image Books, New York, 1960.
THERESE OF LISIEUX, Story of a Soul, trans. John Clark OCD, Institute of Carmelite Studies Publications, Washington, D.C., 1996.