Saints & Holiness

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Speaker Notes

Saints & Holiness

SAINTS ON SANCTITY

I.  Catholic

1. St. John of the Cross (all & anything)
2. St. Theresa of Avila, THE INTERIOR CASTLE
3. Thomas Dubay, THE FIRE WITHIN (on (1) & (2); best secondary source ever)
4. St. Francis of Assisi, THE LITTLE FLOWERS
5. St. Bernard of Clairvaux, ON THE LOVE OF GOD
6. St. Ignatius of Loyola, THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
7. St. Theresa of Lisleux, AUTOBIOGRAPHY (THE STORY OF A SOUL)
8. Dom deCaussade, ABANDONMENT TO DIVINE PROVIDENCE
9. Blessed John Henry Newman, SERMONS
10. St. Francis de Sales, INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVOUT LIFE
11. Thomas a Kempis, THE IMITATION OF CHRIST
12. Thomas Merton, THE ASCENT TO TRUTH (about St. John #1)

II. Protestant

1. W.H. Auden, ed., THE PROTESTANT MYSTICS
2. William Law, A SERIOUS CALL TO THE DEVOUT LIFE
3. Jeremy Taylor
4. Hudson Taylor – like St. Paul
5. John Wesley - Sanctity
6. Bunyan, PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
7. George MacDonald, SERMONS – Lewis’ Master
8. Jonathan Edwards, SERMONS – Puritan Way
9. Soren Kierkegaard, WORKS OF LOVE; TRAINING IN CHRISTIANITY – purity of heart

III. Anglican & Orthodox

1. John Donne, SERMONS

2. Fyodor Dostoyevski, THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV

3. Brother Lawrence, THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD

4. C.S. Lewis, MERE CHRISTIANITY
                        THE FOUR LOVES
                        REFLECTIONS ON THE PSALMS
                        LETTERS TO MALCOLM: CHIEFLY ON PRAYER
                        THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS
                        THE GREAT DIVORCE
                        “The Weight of Glory” – favorite sermon
                        “George Mcdonald Anthology”

Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at Boston College wikipedia personal website