Classics of Western Spirituality
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published by Paulist Press


 











 








 








 







 

Paulist Press Publishers, run by the Paulist Fathers at Mahwah, NJ has published the "Classics of Western Spirituality" Series, which you will probably find in every Franciscan and/or Dominican library and Seminary. I have three of these books, and have read several more, and I've really enjoyed reading them over the years. They are full of knowledge, detail and solid Catholic Spirituality. I've made a list of some of the books that may be of interest to serious readers. Since books are quite expensive these days, you may try to find used books. In my town, there is a large book center which has tons of used books, and every once in a while one of the "Classics of Western Spirituality" shows up. The one I found the other day was on the writings of Catherine of Siena, a Dominican and a Doctor of the Church.

Augustine of Hippo: Selected Writings
translated and introduced by Mary T. Clark

Albert and Thomas: Selected Writings
edited and translated by Simon Tugwell, OP

Angela of Foligno: Selected Writings
translated with an introduction by Paul Lachance, OFM

Athanasius: The Life of Antony and The Letter to
Marcellinus. translated and introduced by Robert C. Gregg

Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works
translated and with a foreword by G.R. Evans;

Birgitta of Sweden: Life and Selected Writings
edited with a preface by Marguerite Tjader Harris;
translation and notes by Albert Ryle Kezel

Bonaventure: The Soul's Journey into God, The Tree of
Life, The Life of St. Francis
translated and introduced by Ewert Cousins

Catherine of Genoa: Purgation and Purgatory, The
Spiritual Dialogue
translated with notes by Serge Hughes

Catherine of Siena: The Dialogue
translated and introduced by Suzanne Noffke, OP

Cloud of Unknowing, The
edited and introduced by James Walsh

Early Dominicans: Selected Writings edited with an introduction by Simon Tugwell, OP

Francis and Clare: The Complete Works
translation and introduction by Regis Armstrong, OFM Cap, and Ignatius C. Brady, OFM

Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal: Letters of Spiritual
Direction
selected and introduced by Wendy M. Wright and Joseph F. Power, OSFS

Francisco de Osuna: The Third Spiritual Alphabet
translated with an introduction by Mary E. Giles

Gregory of Nyssa: The Life of Moses
translated with introduction and notes by Abraham J. Malherbe and Everett Ferguson

Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias
translated by Mother Columba Hart and Jane Bishop

Johannes Tauler: Sermons
translated by Maria Shrady; introduced by Josef Schmidt

John Henry Newman: Selected Sermons
edited with an introduction by Ian Ker

John of the Cross: Selected Writings
edited with an introduction by Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD

Meister Eckhart: Teacher and Preacher
edited by Bernard McGinn et al

Teresa of Avila: The Interior Castle
translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD, and Otillo Rodriguez, OCD

Mechthild of Magdeburg: The Flowing Light of the Godhead
translated and introduced by Frank Tobin

Jacopone da Todi: Lauds
translated by Serge and Elizabeth Hughes

Henry Suso: The Exemplar, with Two German Sermons
preface by Bernard McGinn; translated and edited by Frank Tobin

Alphonsus de Liguori: Selected Writings
edited by Frederick M. Jones, CSsR, et al

Julian of Norwich: Showings
translated and introduced by Edmund Colledge, OSA, et al

John Baptist de La Salle: The Spirituality of Christian Education
edited and introduced by Carl Koch, et al

Norbert and Early Norbertine Spirituality
Selected and introduced by Theodore J. Antry, OPraem, et al

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