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• Contemporary Christian Mystics and Meditaiton Teachers - Selected Readings

Cardenal, Ernesto. To live is to love.
Culligan, Kevin, Mary Jo Meadow, and Daniel Chowning. Purifying The Heart: Buddhist Meditation for Christians.
De Mello, Anthony, SJ. Awareness ; A De Mello Spirituality Conference in His Own Words.
De Mello, Anthony, SJ. Sadhana.
Dunne, John S. Way Of All The Earth.
Finley, James. Merton's Palace of Nowhere.
Freeman, Laurence. Jesus: The Teacher Within.
Hays, Edward. Pray All Ways.
Keating, Thomas. Open Mind Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel.
Merton, Thomas. New Seeds of Contemplation.
Merton, Thomas. Thoughts in Solitude.
Nemeck, Francis Kelly, OMI, and Marie Theresa Coombs, Hermit. O Blessed Night!: Recovering from Addiction, Codependency, and Attachment Based on the Insights of St. John of the Cross and Pierre Teilhard De Char.
Nouwen, Henri J. M. The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry. Nouwen, Henri J. M. With Open Hands.
Nouwen, Henri J. M. The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society.
Roberts, Bernadette. The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey.
Rohr, Richard. Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. The Divine Milieu (Perennial Classics).
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. The Phenomenon of Man.
Vanier, Jean. From Brokenness to Community (Harold M. Wit Lectures).


• Classic Christian Mystics - a Beginning List

Chittister, Joan, OSB. The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages (Crossroad Spiritual Legacy Series).
Chittister, Joan, OSB.Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today.
Clarke, John, OCD, trans. Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux, Third Edition.
Colledge, Edmond, OSA, and James Walsh, SJ, trans. and introduction.Julian of Norwich: Showings (Classics of Western Spirituality).
De Caussade, Jean Pierre. Self Abandonment to Divine Providence.
De Caussade, Jean Pierre. Sacrament of the Present Moment, The.
Fox, Matthew. Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation.
Henry, Patrick, ed. Benedict?s Dharma: Buddhists Refl ect on the Rule of St. Benedict.
Kavanaugh, Kieran, OCD, and Otilio Rodriguez, OCD, trans. The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross.
Lawrence, Brother. The Practice of the Presence of God: With Spiritual Maxims.
Levko, John J. Cassian?s Prayer for the 21st Century.
Palmer, G. E. H., Philip Sherrard, and Kallistos Ware, ed. and trans. The Philokalia, Volume 1: The Complete Text; Compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain & St. Markarios of Corinth (Philokalia Vol. I).
Peers, E. Allison, trans. Interior Castle ? Saint Theresa of Avila.
Plattig, Michael, O. Carm. ?Freedom to Souls: Spiritual Accompaniment According to the Carmelite Tradition,? in Tending the Holy: Spiritual Direction Across Traditions, ed. Norvene Vest.
Radier, Beatrice, ed. The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works (Penguin Classics).
Toner, Jules J. Commentary on Saint Ignatius Rules for Discernment of Spirits: A Guide to the Principles and Practice (Hadronic Press Monographs in Mathematics). Ward, Benedicta, SLG, trans. The Sayings of the Desert Fathers. (Back to Top)


• Chrisitan Philosophy and Theology - A Beginning List

Fox, Matthew. Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality.
Funk, Robert W., Roy W. Hoover, and the Jesus Seminar. The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus.
Groeschel, Benedict J. Spiritual Passages: The Psychology of Spiritual Development.
Hick, John, and Paul F. Knitter, eds. The Myth of Christian Uniqueness: Toward a Pluralistic Theology of Religions.
Keenan, John P. The Gospel of Mark: A Mahayana Reading.
McBrien, Richard P. Catholicism.
Peck, M. Scott. People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil.
Swidler, Leonard, ed. Toward a Universal Theology of Religion.
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. The Divine Milieu.
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. The Phenomenon of Man.
Thompson, Helen, BVM. Journey Toward Wholeness: A Jungian Model of Adult Spiritual Growth.
Walsh, John. Evangelization and Justice: New Insights for Christian Ministry.


• On line Readings in Early Christian and Pre-Christian Writings

http://www.ccel.org (Christian Classic Ethereal Library)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com (Early Christian Writings)
http://www.maryjones.us/index.html (Mediveal Celtic texts, Celtic Encylopedia, and much more)