Christian Spirituality
Christian Spirituality
Clement of Alexandria: 150-216 Greece
The Instructor 190-200 Practical Treatise on Christian Living
Miscellanies 190-200 Christian Gnosticism
Address to the Greeks
Origen: 185-254
Commentary on the Song of Songs 240
Cyprian (Caecilus Cyprianus) 200-258 Tunesia
The Dress of Virgins 249 Address on Ascetic Theology
The Unity of the Church
Athanasius: 298-373 Greece
The Life of Saint Anthony 357
On the Incarnation of the Word 320
Basil the Great: 330-379 Greece
The Long Rules 358
Gregory of Nyssa: 335?-395? Turkey
The Life of Moses 390 Scriptural commentary or Christian Perfection
Evagrius Ponticus: 345-399 Turkey
The Praktikos and Chapters or Prayer Late 4th Century
Jerome: 340-420 Italy
The Letters of Saint Jerome 370-419 Letters on Christian Living
John Cassian: 365-435 Turkey, Italy
The Conferences of John Cassian 420 Basic questions on the monastic life
The Twelve Books of the Institutes of the Coenobia
The Seven Books on the Incarnation of the Lord against Nestorius
Dionysius, the Pseudo Areopagite: 500 Greece
Mystical Theology 500
The Heavenly Hierarchy
The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy
The Divine Names
Benedict of Nursia: 480-550 Italy
Rule for Monasteries 525 A Monastic Rule
Gregory the Great: 540-604 Italy
Pastoral Care 590 Exhortations to the secular clergy
John Climacus: 579-649 Sinai
The Ladder of Divine Ascent 640 A directory of monastic spirituality
Maximus the Confessor: 580-662 Constantinople
The Four Hundred Chapters on Love 640 On unity with God
Commentary on the”Our Father” 640
The Church’s Mystagogy 625
Symeon the New Theologian: 949-1032 Constantinople
The Practical and Theological Chapters 11thCentury On divine contemplation
Anselm of Canterbury: 1033-1109 Italy, France, England
The Prayers and Meditations of Saint Anselm 1099
Proslogion 1070- 1080
Cur Deus Homo 1070- 1080
Hugh of Saint Victor: 1097-1141 France
Noah’s Ark 1125-1130 Spiritual Treatises involving biblical exposition
Didascalion Program of Study
De Sacramantis Doctrinal Treatise
Commentary on the Celestial Hierarchy
William of Saint Thierry: 1085-1149 Signy
The Meditations of William of Saint Thierry 1128-1136
Exposition on the Song of Songs
Golden Epistle
Bernard of Clairvaux: 1090-1153 France
On Loving God 1126-1141
Aelred of Rievaulx: 1110-1167
The Mirror of Charity 1143
Spiritual Friendship
Joachim da Fiori (Flora) 1131-1202
Harmony of the Old and New Testaments
Richard of Saint Victor: d1173
Benjamin Minor and Benjamin Major 1160 On contemplation
Bonaventura (Giovanni di Fidanza) 1221-1274 France
The Mind’s Road to God 1259
Retracing the Arts to Theology 1250
The Three Ways 1250
Mechtild of Magdeburg: 1210-1297?
The Flowing Light of the Godhead 1265
Gertrude the Great 1256-1302 Germany
The Exercises of St. Gertrude
The Legatus Divinae Pietis
The Liber Specialis Gratiae
Johannes Eckhardt: 1260-1328 Germany
The Sermons and Treatises of Meister Eckhardt 1300-1327 On unity with God
Henry Suso: 1295-1366 Germany
The Little Book of Eternal Wisdom 1328 Meditation on Christ’s humanity
Parable of the Pilgrim
Unknown: from an oral tradition by Brother Ugolino di Monte Santa Maria (1270-1340)
The Little Flowers of St Francis 1330 Tales and Legends of St Francis
Richard Rolle: 1300?-1349 England
The Fire of Love 1343
The Mending of Life
The Melody of Love
Jan van Ruysbroeck: 1293-1381 Belgium
The Sparkling Stone 1350
The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage 1346
The Book of Supreme Truth
Unknown: Germany
Theologica Germanica 1350
Rulman Merswin and the Community of the Friends of God 1307-1382
The Book of the Nine Rocks (about 1352)
The Latin Memorial 1367
The Great
The Small German Memorial
The Book of the Letters
John Tauler: 1300-1361 Germany
The Sermons of John Tauler 1330-1361
Catherine of Sienna: 1347-1380 Italy
The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Sienna 1370 Report of mystical experience
Walter Hilton: 1340-1396 England
The Ladder of Perfection 1390
Toward a Perfect Love
Julian of Norwich: 1342-1423 England
Revelations of Divine Love 1393
Unknown:
The Cloud of Unknowing late 14th Century:
The Book of Privy Counseling
Epistle of Prayer
Denis’ Hid Divinity
Gerard Groote and The Brethren of the Common Life 1340-1384
Thomas a Kempis? 1380-1471 // Gerard Groote
The Imitation of Christ 1418
Margery Kempe: 1373-1440 England
The Book of Margery Kempe 1432-1436 spiritual biography
Nicholas of Cusa: 1401-1464 Germany
The Vision of God 1453
Universal Reconciliation 1433
The Learned Ignorance 1440
Marsilio Ficino (aka Marsilius) 1433-1499
Defensor Pacis
Selected Letters
Plato’s Doctrine of the Immortality of Souls
Desiderius Erasumus: 1469-1536 Germany, France
Enchiridion Militis Christiani 1503 An ethical rule for Christian Life
The Praise of Folly 1511
Colloquies 1519
On Free Will 1524
Henry Nicholas aka Niklaes (and the Family of Love) 1506-1570
The Prophecy of the Spirit of Love
A Publishing of the Peace on Earth
Giovanni Pico of Minandola 1463-1494 Italy
Apologia
John Wycliffe 1320-1384
Summa in Theologica 1378
Twelve Theses on the Eucharist 1381
Gregory (Founder of the Bohemian Brethren/Moravian Brethren)
Seven Letters to Roxyczana 1468-1470
Tractate on the Holy Church 1470
Treatise on the Narrow Way of Christ 1470
Of Two Kinds of Work 1471
Johann Reuchlin 1455-1522 Germany
De Arte Predicandi 1503 Preaching Reform
De Verbo Mirifico
De Arte Cabbalistica 1517
Girolamo Savonarola 1452-1498 Italy
The Triumph of the Cross
Sermons
Juan de Valdes (aka John Valduso or Valdesso) 1500-1541
The Christian Alphabet
The Hundred and Ten Divine Considerations
Johann Bunderlin
For what cause God has become incarnate in Christ 1529
A general consideration of the scriptures 1529
Christian Entfelder
On the Many Separations which have this year arisen in belief 1530
On True Salvation 1530
On the Knowledge of God and Jesus Christ 1533
Caspar Schwenckfeld b1489
Corpus Schwencffeldianorum
Sebastian Franck 1499-1542
Seven Sealed Book 1539
Valentine Weigel 1533-1588
On the Life of Christ or True Faith &c. 1648
Astrology Theologised, German Theology
Martin Luther: 1483-1546 Germany
The Freedom of a Christian 1520
An Appeal to the Christian Nobility 1520
The Pagan Servitude of the Church 1520
Francisco de Osuna: 1492-1541? Spain
The Third Spiritual Alphabet 1527 Experiential description of mystical prayer
Thomas More: 1478-1535 England
A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation 1534-1535
Utopia 1516
Ignatius of Loyola: 1491-1556 Spain
The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola 1548
Menno Simons (1492-1559)
The Beautiful & Fundamental Doctrine of the Word of God 1537
The Evident Doctrine of the Word of the Lord Concerning
the Spiritual Resurrection and the New Heavenly Birth
Fray Luis Ponce de Leon: 1527-1591 Spain
The Names of Christ 1583-1585
The Book of Job 1591
John of the Cross: 1542-1591 Spain
Ascent of Mount Carmel and Dark Night of the Soul 1587
Living Flame of Love 1585
Spiritual Canticle 1578-9
Theresa of Avila: 1515-1582 Spain
Interior Castle 1588
Way of Perfection 1565
Foundations 1573
Benedict of Canfield: 1562-1611 England
The Rule of Perfection 1608
Johann Arndt: 1555-1621 Germany
Four Books on True Christianity 1605-1610
Francis of Sales: 1567-1622 France
Introduction to the Devout Life and On the Love of God 1609, 1616
John Donne: 1572-1631 England
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions 1624
George Herbert: 1593-1633 England
The Temple 1633 Spiritual Poetry
Thomas Browne: 1605-1682 England
Religio Medici 1642-1643 Humanity’s place in the creation
Luca Pinelli
The Mirror of Religious Perfection 1618
Achilles Galliardi
An Abridgement of Christian Perfection 1625
Lancelot Andrews: 1555-1626 England
Private Devotions 1648
Francis Rous 1579-1659 Scotland
Mystical Marriage 1635
The Heavenly Academy 1638
The Great Oracle 1641
Jean Bernieres-Louvigny 1602-1659
Living with Christ in God 1684
Harry Vane 1612-1662
An Epistle to the Mystical Body of Christ on Earth 1661
A Retired Man’s Meditations 1655
A Pilgrimage into the Land of Promise 1664
Richard Baxter: 1615-1691 England
The Saints Everlasting Rest 1650
The Reformed Pastor 1656
The Call to the Unconverted 1657
Reliquiae Baxterianae 1696
Thomas Goodwin 1600-1680 England
Exposition of Ephesians
An Exposition of the Book of Revelations
A Brief History of the Kingdom of Christ
A Child of Light walking in Darkness (about 1640)
Giles Randall 1600?- 1650+?
Single Eye or the Vision of God 1646
Theologia Germanica
The Bright Star
Divinity and Philosophy Dissected
Unknown
The Life and Light of a Man in Christ Jesus, London, 1646
Jeremy Taylor: 1613-1667 England
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living and Holy Dying 1650
Blaise Pascal: 1623-1662 France
Pensees 1670 Spiritual Diary
Phillip Jacob Spener: 1635-1705 Germany
Pia Disideria 1675 Call to piety and renewal
John Bunyan: 1628-1688
The Pilgrim’s Progress 1675
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners 1667
Juan Falconi 1596-1638
Alphabet
Jean Joseph Surin 1600-1665
Desmarets de Saint Sorlin 1595-1676
Will Ames (possibly written by Peter Balling)
The Light on the Candlestick (Lucerna super Candelabrum) 1662
Trans. into English by Benjamin Furley
Henri Marie Boudon 1624-1702
Alonso Rodriguez
The Practice of Christian & Religious Perfection (3 vols) 1697
Francois Malaval 1627-1719
Contemplation
Antoinette Bourignon 1616-1680,France
Brother Lawrence aka Nicholas Herman 1610-1691 France
The Practice of the Presence of God 1692
Maxims
George Fox & The Early Friends or Quakers
Jonathan Edwards: 1703-1758 America
A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections 1746
Freedom of the Will 1754
The Great Christian Doctrine of Original Sin Defended 1758
The Nature of True Virtue 1765
The Life of David Brainerd 1749
The Religious Affections 1746
Nicholaus Ludwig Count von Zinzendorf: 1700-1760 Germany
Nine Public Lectures 1748
George Peck
The Scripture Doctrine of Christian Perfection 1842
W.P. Pope
A Compendium of Christian Theology 1879
Bede Griffiths:
River of Compassion: A Christian Commentary of the Bhagavad Gita
Universal Wisdom: A Journey Through the Sacred Wisdom of the World
The Golden String