A compendium of the progress of spiritual formation
Can anyone suggest some resources that track the progress of spiritual formation/holiness/sanctification (insert your own word).
For example, the order of salvation in Chrysostom, Augustine’s Confessions or Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises
Including the Western church, Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox
- Excluding the NT texts but including:
- The Apostolic Fathers
- The Church Fathers/Mothers.
- mm.
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Recognizing your exclusions, my favorites are a serious reading of Didache, and Clement of Alexandria (two stages, post-NT).
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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John Climacus
The books of Bernard McGinn will provide bibliographies to keep you busy for years.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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What do you think of his Foundations of Mysticism series? Worth it's weight in gold?
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Absolutely - he is the best contemporary scholar on the topic AND is quite readable.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Thanks. I have his first 7 volumes in his Foundation series. My goal is to read them in order. Little by little.
thanks, again. 😀
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