| CODE | MRT5003 | ||||||
| TITLE | Major Schools of Christian Spirituality | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Moral Theology | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit will illustrate to participants the major schools of Christian Spirituality, namely: 1. The Desert Fathers and Mothers, 2. The Monastic school, 3. The Francsican School, 4. The Domenican School, 5. The Carmelite School, 6. The Ignatian School, 7. The Salesian School. Beginning with the basic building blocks of Christian Spirituality, the study-unit considers the various Schools of spirituality and how their teaching has been brough to action. Study-Unit Aims: After having exposed, in the first year of the course, the rudiments of Spiritual Thology, this study-unit, accompanied by others of its sort in the second year, will implement the differentiation in thought and, simultaneously, merging of experiences with regards to the human experience of the spiritual quest through the ages. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - define what characterises a "school" of spirituality. - identify the major spiritual currents of the Christian tradition. - discuss and argue for a universal outlook on the spiritual experience. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - contextualise authors, places, and times in their respective and significant milieux that together form the diversity of Christian experience. - locate the roots of the present state of Christian experiences in Tradition. - practise dialogue and critical appraisal of other Traditions. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Text: - Tyler, P - Woods, R., The Bloomsbury Guide to Christian Spirituality, London: Bloomsbury 2012. Supplementary Readings: - Bergstrom-Allen, J., Climbing the Mountain: The Carmelite Journey, St. Albert's Press: Kent 2010. - Harmless, William, 2004, Desert Christians : an introduction to the literature of early monasticism, Oxford University Press. - John Bosco, Memoirs of the Oratory, trans., Daniel Lyons, with commentary by Eugenio Ceria, Lawrence Castelvecchi and Michael Mendl, 2nd ed., New Rochelle NY: Don Bosco Publications, 1989. - Leonhard Lehmann, Francesco. Maestro di Preghiera, Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, Roma 1993. - Tugwell, S., ed., Early Domenicans: Selected Writings (=Classics of Western Spirituality) Paulist Press: New Jersey 1982. - Warner, L., Journey with Jesus: Discovering the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, Intervarsity: Downersgrove/Illinois, 2010. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Qualifications: General Religious Knowledge | ||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Glen Attard Jonathan Farrugia Martin F. Micallef |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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