Medieval Theology (REL 721)

Primary Texts
Augustine, Confessions: Introduction and Text, with Introduction and
Commentary by James J ODonnell, Oxford: Univ. Press, 1994 (or: tr. Maria
Boulding, New City Press, 2002)
OR:
St. Augustine, Confessions, tr. Henry Chadwick (Oxford: Univ. Press,
1992).
Augustine, The Trinity, tr. Edmund Hill OP, New York: New City Press, 1994
The Pseudo-Dionysius: the Complete Works, trans. Colm Luibheid, New
Jersey: Paulist Press, 1987
Bernard of Clairvaux
, Sermons on the Song of Songs, trans. Killian Walsh
and Irene Edmonds, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Fathers Series, vol. I, 1977
William of St Thierry, The Golden Epistle, trans. T. Berkeley OCSO, Cistercian
Publications: Kalamazoo, 1980
Guigo II: The Ladder of Monks, A letter on the Contemplative Life and Twelve
Meditations, trans. and introd. Edmund Colledge and James Walsh,
Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1981
*Anselm: Monologion and Proslogion, in Anselm of Conterbury, The Major
Works, ed. and introd. Brian Davies and GR Evans, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1998
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Blackfriars edition, vol 1, 2, 8,
published by Eyre and Spottiswoode (republished in paperback format by
Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Albert and Thomas, Selected Writings, trans., ed. and introd. Simon Tugwell
OP, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1988, pp. 527-585
Bonaventure, The Journey of the Soul into God, ed. and trans., Philotheus
Boehner OFM and Sr M. Frances Laughlin SMIC, New York: The Franciscan
Institute, 1990 (out of print)
OR:
*Bonaventure, The Journey of the Soul into God, New Jersey: Paulist Press,
1978
*Dante: The Divine Comedy I, Inferno, tr. Robin Kirkpatrick, London: Penguin
Classics, 2006, and Purgatorio, 2007 (Tr. John D Sinclair for Paradiso)

Dante: De Vulgari Eloquentia, ed. Steven Botterill, Cambridge Medieval

Classics, Cambridge, 2004
Marguerite Porete, Mirror of Simple Souls, ed and trans., Amy Hollywood,
New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1993
*Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings, trans. and ed. Oliver Davies, London:
Penguin Classics, 1995
Meister Eckhart, The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and
Defense, trans. and ed. Edmund Colledge and Bernard McGinn, New Jersey:
Paulist Press, 1981
*Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love; Cloud of Unknowing: trans. AC
Spearing, London: Penguin Classics, 2002
(or: Julian of Norwich: Showings, Edmund Colledge, James Walsh and Jean
Leclerq, New Jersey: Classics of Western Spirituality, 1977, which includes
both the Short and Long texts)
General Background Sources and Particular Studies
*Denys Turner, Eros and Allegory, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1995
Denys Turner, The Darkness of God, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1995
*Andrew Louth, The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1993
*Andrew Louth, Denys the Areopagite, New York: Continuum, 2002
Bernard McGinn, The Presence of God, A History of Western Christian
Mysticism, New York: Crossroad, 1991, 1994, 1998 and 2005
vol 1: The Foundations of Mysticism;
vol 2: The Growth of Mysticism;
vol 3: The Flowering of Mysticism,
vol 4, The Harvest of Mysticism in Medieval Germany,
Beryl Smalley, The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, Blackwell: Oxford,
1984
Jean Leclercq, The Love of Learning and the Desire for God, New York: Fordham University Press, 1982

Bernard McGinn, ed., Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Movement, New York:
Continuum, 1994, especially part II.
Bernard McGinn, The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart: The man from
whom God hid nothing, Herder and Herder, 2003

Marion Glasscoe, ed., Julian of Norwichs a Revelation of Love, Exeter

Medieval Texts and Studies, Exeter, 1993

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