{"id":23188,"date":"2022-07-05T16:50:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T14:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teresianum.net\/?page_id=23188"},"modified":"2022-09-15T20:25:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T18:25:51","slug":"ocst08-mystical-theology-and-the-gospel-of-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.teresianum.net\/en\/course-in-spiritual-theology-online-new\/study-plan\/ocst08-mystical-theology-and-the-gospel-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"OCST08 Mystical Theology and the Gospel of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-en\"> <p><em>Teacher:<\/em> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justification<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The course explores the question How can the mystics deepen, safeguard and empower the Church\u2019s vision of the dignity of humanity and the goodness of human life? The course thus aims to make both a pastoral and theological contribution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Objectives <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The aim is to bring the Christian mystical tradition, with special emphasis on the theology of deification, into dialogue with the Gospel summons to protect and promote life. This dialogue, between mystical theology and the Gospel of life, intends to deepen and widen the discourse about the implications of human dignity in today\u2019s world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contents <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) Foundations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The meaning of \u2018mystical theology\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>The meaning of \u2018the Gospel of life\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>New Testament light upon the relationship between spirituality and service.<\/li>\n<li>The theology of deification as criterion for what God wants and what humanity needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2) Applications<\/p>\n<p>Dialogue between the mystics, especially St Teresa and St John of the Cross, and<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the dignity of the human,<\/li>\n<li>human suffering,<\/li>\n<li>care for the earth,<\/li>\n<li>purification of motivation,<\/li>\n<li>ecclesial communion and mission,<\/li>\n<li>Christian hope.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Method\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The core language of the course will be ENGLISH, comprising lectures and interaction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Evaluation criteria <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Participation in the lessons; a piece of written work or a final oral examination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Work allocation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 12 lessons will consist in 6 double-lessons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bibliography <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope John Paul II Encyclical Letter <em>Evangelium Vitae <\/em>1995;<\/li>\n<li>Pope Benedict XVI Encyclical Letter <em>Deus Caritas Est <\/em>2005;<\/li>\n<li>Pope Francis Encyclical Letter <em>Laudato Si<\/em><em>\u2019 <\/em>2015<em>; <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Works<\/em> of St John of the Cross and of St Teresa, published by Institute of Carmelite Studies Washington;<\/li>\n<li>Pseudo-Dionysius <em>The Complete Works <\/em>Paulist Press 1987;<\/li>\n<li>Josef Ratzinger <em>The God of Jesus Christ<\/em> Ignatius 2008;<\/li>\n<li>Mark McIntosh <em>Mystical Theology <\/em>Blackwell 1998;<\/li>\n<li>Mary McCormack OCD <em>Upon this mountain prayer in the Carmelite Tradition <\/em>Teresian Press 2009;<\/li>\n<li>Iain Matthew <em>John of the Cross seasons of prayer <\/em>Teresian Press 2014;<\/li>\n<li>Catherine Meade\u00a0<em>Catherine of Siena to purify God\u2019s Church<\/em> St Paul\u2019s 2006;<\/li>\n<li>Robert Spaemann <em>Persons <\/em>Oxford 2017;<\/li>\n<li>Stacy Trasancos <em>Particles of Faith <\/em>Notre Dame Indiana 2016;<\/li>\n<li>Peter Tyler <em>St John of the Cross <\/em>Continuum 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher: \u00a0 &nbsp; Justification The course explores the question How can the mystics deepen, safeguard and empower the Church\u2019s vision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":20152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-courseinpiritualtheologyonline.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresianum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresianum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresianum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresianum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresianum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresianum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23433,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresianum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23188\/revisions\/23433"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresianum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresianum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}