The English Spiritual Tradition B: The Modern Period (DS2142C)

Content

Each student will be expected to be familiar with a general overview of the English spiritual writers of this period and also to undertake the study of four specific writers from among them. The scope of the study will include authors: Thomas More, John Fisher, Austin Baker, Richard Challoner, Evelyn Underhill, C.S. Lewis; poets John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, G.M. Hopkins, T.S. Eliot and R.S. Thomas; and also some Australian poets including Judith Wright and Les A. Murray.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

30 points at Level 1 Christian Spirituality

Indicative Bibliography

• Countryman, L. William. The Poetic Imagination, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2000.
• Cunningham, Lawrence S. Christian Spirituality. Themes from the Tradition. New York: Paulist, 1996.
• Dryer, Elizabeth A., ed. Minding the Spirit. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2005.
• Dupré, Louis, and Saliers, Don E., eds. Christian Spirituality Post Reformation and Modern. New York: Crossroad, 1996.
• Flood, Gavin. The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Holder, Arthur. Christian Spirituality: The Classics. New York: Routledge, 2008.
• Ker, I. The Catholic Revival in English Literature. Indiana: Notre Dame University Press, 2003.
• Mursell, Gordon. English Spirituality. 2 vols. London: SPCK, 2001.
• Nichols, Aidan. Spirituality for the Twenty First Century. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor, 2003.
• Saint-Laurent, George E. Catholic Spirituality in Focus. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2007.
• Sheldrake, Philip. A Brief History of Spirituality. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.
• Wright, Wendy M. The Essential Spirituality Handbook. Liguori, MO: Liguori Publications, 2009.
• Woods, Richard, and Peter Tyler, eds. The Bloomsbury Guide to Christian Spirituality. London: Bloomsbury, 2012.

Assessment