(2) CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHERS as SPIRITUAL GUIDES

Ilsetraut Hadot, “The Spiritual Guide”. Three pre-Christian models of the “Soul-Guide” or psychopomp: (1) Philosopher;  (2) Angel;  (3) Ancestor. Galen, On the Traditions of Plato and Hippocrates and On the Passions and Errors of the Soul. Porphyry, The Life of Plotinus. Plotinus, Enneads;

(3) BIBLICAL MODELS of SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE

The biblical significance of the terms: (1) TEACHER / διδάσκαλος; DISCIPLE / μαθητής ; INSTRUCTOR / παιδευτή ; (2) CONSOLER / παράκλητος; ADVISOR / σύμβουλος ; HELPER / βοηθός ; (3) SHEPHERD / ποιμήν ; GUIDE / ὁδηγός ; ANGEL / ἄγγελος ; (4) HEALER / ἰατρός; TRANSFORM. / μεταμορφωσις; RENEWAL / ἀνακαίνωαις; RESTORATION / ἀποκατάστασις.

(4) MARTYRS and VISIONARIES as SPIRITUAL GUIDES: Intercessors and Ministers of Reconciliation

Christ’s Descent into Hell and the Apokatastasis; Polycarp of Smyrna; The Shepherd of Hermas; The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity; Cyprian of Carthage.

(5) ECCLESIASTICAL LEADERSHIP as SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE (Part 1)

The Apostle Peter as model; Clement of Rome; Ignatius of Antioch; Irenaeus of Lyons; Athanasius. [Textbook: Demacopoulos, 21-50 (“Athanasius of Alexandria and Ambivalence Regarding Spiritual Direction”)]

(6) CONTEMPLATIVE EXEGESIS as SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE

Philo of Alexandria; Cyprian; Clement of Alexandria; Origen/Gregory Thaumaturgus; Guigo II (the Carthusian), Lectio Divina as a window into the soul.

(7a) CHRISTIAN ASCETICS as SPIRITUAL GUIDES, (Part 1): Early Abbas and Ammas

Athanasius, The Life of Antony; the Apophthegmata (Sayings) of the Desert Fathers; St. Syncletica; St. Macrina. [Textbook: Demacopoulos, 51-82 (“Gregory Nazianzen’s Sturggle for Synthesis” )].

(7b) CHRISTIAN ASCETICS as SPIRITUAL GUIDES, (Part 2): Evagrius Ponticus

“Introduction to the Life and Thought of Evagrius Ponticus”; Praktikos and the spiritual journey; Gnostikos and spiritual guidance. [Textbook: Byrne, pp. 3-15, (Benedicta Ward, S.L.G., “Spiritual Direction in the Desert Fathers”)].

(7c) CHRISTIAN ASCETICS as SPIRITUAL GUIDES, (Part 3): Evagrius Ponticus and John Cassian

Evagrian spiritual direction; Antirrhesis; Exegesis; John Cassian on discernment; John Cassian on friendship and anger. [Textbook: Demacopoulos, 107-126, (“John Cassian and The Spiritual Direction of the Ascetic Community” )]

(8) SPIRITUAL DIRECTION as MUTUAL SERVICE: Models of Spiritual Guidance in Ascetical Communities

John Chryssavgis “From Egypt to Palestine: Discerning a Thread of Spiritual Direction”; Basil the Great on lay ascetical communities; Augustine of Hippo; Barsanuphius and John.  [Textbook: Demacopoulos, 83-106, (“Augustine of Hippo and Resistance to the Ascetic Model of Spiritual Direction”)]

(9) EARLY MANUALS of SPIRITUAL (SELF-) DIRECTION

Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Benedict (RB-80, Appendix 2 “The Abbot”). Irenee Hausherr, S.J., “The Monastic Theology of St. John Climacus”; John Climacus, The Ladder; The Syriac Liber Graduum (Book of Steps); Dhuoda, Manual for William. [Textbook: Demacopoulos, 51-82. (“Gregory Nazianzen’s Sturggle for Synthesis”)]

(10) ECCLESIASTICAL LEADERSHIP as SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE (Part 2)

Basil of Caesarea on Canonical Penances; Ambrose of Milan (On the Sacraments); Augustine of Hippo; Gregory the Great, Dialogues, Regula Pastoralis. [Textbook: Demacopoulos, 127-164 (“Pope Gregory and the Asceticizing of Spiritual Direction”)]

(11) FROM SECRET-KEEPER TO SOUL-FRIEND: Classical, Celtic, and Medieval Models of Friendship and Spiritual Guidance

The biblical significance of the terms: FRIEND / φίλος; FRIENDSHIP / φιλία. Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Ambrose, and Gregory the Great on friendship;  Aelred of Rievaulx, The Mirror of Charity and On Spiritual Friendship. [Textbook: Byrne, pp. 30-42, (Diarmuid O’Laoghaire, S.J., “Soul-Friendship”)]

(12) CHARISMATIC GUIDES and UNCREATED LIGHT, Prayer and Liturgy as Bases of Spiritual Direction

Cyril of Jerusalem; Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite; Symeon the New Theologian; Gregory Pallamas and hesychasm.

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