The English Spiritual Tradition B: The Modern Period (DS9142C)

Postgraduate, 24.0 points

Content

Each student will be expected to be familiar with a general overview of the English spiritual writers of the modern period and also to undertake the study of five specific writers from among them. The scope of the study will include: 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.

Unit code: DS9142C

Unit status: Approved (Major revision)

Points: 24.0

Unit level: Postgraduate Elective

Unit discipline: Spirituality

Proposing College: Catholic Theological College

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Learning outcomes

1.

Situate each of the authors in his/her context
2.

Evaluate the extent to which each has been influenced by his/her religious and social context
3.

Analyze the extent to which a particular author relates to the overall development of theological and spiritual understanding
4.

Critically evaluate the abiding value of the author’s work
5.

Demonstrate a capacity to research a specific topic in a critically rigorous, sustained and self-directed manner.

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.
  • Holder, Arthur. Christian Spirituality: The Classics. New York: Routledge, 2008.
  • 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

Type Description Word count Weight (%)
Journal

Weekly seminar notes (equivalent of 1,500 words for the semester)

 1500 20.0
Essay

5500 word essay

 5500 80.0
Approvals

Unit approved for the University of Divinity by Prof Albert Haddad on 16 Aug, 2022

Unit record last updated: 2022-08-16 17:19:49 +1000