Table of Contents
Foreword Michael N. McGregor vii
Editor's Prologue xi
Preface xix
Lecture 1 The Aim of This Course 1
Lecture 2 Mystical Theology in St. John's Gospel 12
Lecture 3 Martyrs and Gnostics (Ignatius, Irenaeus, Clement, and Origen) 21
Lecture 4 Divinization and Mysticism (The Cappadocian Fathers) 40
Lecture 5 Evagrius Ponticus 57
Lecture 6 Contemplation and the Cosmos (Maximus the Confessor) 71
Lecture 7 The Dionysian Tradition 79
Lecture 8 Western Mysticism: The Influence of St. Augustine 88
Lecture 9 St. Bernard of Clairvaux 99
Lecture 10 St. Bernard's Sermons on the Song of Songs 118
Lecture 11 Fourteenth Century Mysticism: The Béguines, Eckhart, Tauler 141
Lecture 12 Spanish Mysticism: St. Teresa of Avila and Others 161
Lecture 13 St. John of the Cross: Dark Nights and Spiritual Crises 184
More Sources and Readings 209
Group Discussion Topics and Questions 220
Editor's Notes 229
Index 231