Classical Works

The following are the books that will be discussed in the Dominican Center's Spiritual Formation Program, Phase I, but they are also interesting reads for those not enrolled!

• Athanasius: The Life of Anthony and the Letter To Marcellinus  
• Wisdom of the Desert (New Directions Paperback)  
• The Forgotten Desert Mothers: Sayings, Lives, and Stories of Early Christian Women  

• A Life Pleasing to God: The Spirituality of the Rules of St. Basil
• St. Basil the Great: On the Holy Spirit
• The Fathers Speak: St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory of Nazianzus, St. Gregory of Nyssa

 St. Augustine of Hippo (October)

• Confessions by St. Augustine, introduction by R. S. Pine-Coffin

• Contemplative Prayer by Thomas Merton (Image Books)

St. Benedict and St. Scholastica (Benedictine Spirituality) (November)

• The Rule of St. Benedict
• Scholastica, Twin Sister of Benedict (available free online)

• Pseudo Dionysius: The Complete Works
• Angelic Wisdom: The Cherubim and the Grace of Contemplation in Richard of St. Victor
• Angelic Spirituality: Medieval Perspectives on the Ways of Angels
• Bonaventure: The Soul's Journey into God, the Tree of Life, the Life of St. Francis

St. Francis and St. Clare: Franciscan Spirituality (December)

• Francis of Assisi: Early Documents. Volume I: The Saint
• Francis and Clare: The Complete Works (The Classics of Western Spirituality)
• Clare of Assisi: Early Documents

• Catherine of Siena: The Dialogue (Classics of Western Spirituality)
• Meister Eckhart: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises, and Defense (Classics of Western Spirituality)
• Meister Eckhart: Teacher and Preacher (Classics of Western Spirituality)

• Hadewijch: The Complete Works (Classics of Western Spirituality)
• Mechthild of Magdeburg: The Flowing Light of the Godhead (Classics of Western Spirituality)
• Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls

The Cloud of Unknowing (February)

• Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counseling (Johnson)
• The Loving Search for God: Contemplative Prayer and the Cloud of Unknowing by William Meninger

• Listening Hearts: Discerning Call in Community by Suzanne Farnham, et al.
• Faithful Listening: Discernment in Everyday Life by Joan Mueller
• Silent Presence: Discernment as a Process and Problem by Ernest Larkin

• The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila
• The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross

• Luther's Works. Devotional Writings
• Martin Luther: Selections from His Writings
• Luther's Prayers
• The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Johann Arndt: True Christianity (Classics of Western Spirituality) by Johann Arndt
• The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• John Calvin: Writings on Pastoral Piety (Classics of Western Spirituality)
• Letters of John Calvin

• A Wesleyan Spiritual Reader by Rueben Job

• The Mystics of the Church
• The Spiritual Life: Great Truths for Everyday Life

• New Seeds of Contemplation

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