Christianity - Notes

1. "The Exhortation to the Greeks," in Clement of Alexandria, trans. G.W. Butterworth (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1919), 215, 241, 243 and 257. Unless otherwise specified, all Christian authors referred to here are Catholic.

2. Gregory of Nyssa, "The Burning Bush," in La Vie de Moise (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1968), 123.

3. "The Confessions," in Basic Writings of St. Augustine, trans. Whitney J. Oates (NY: Random House, 1948), 101, 180, 231.

4. Pseudo-Dionysius, "Mystical Theology," in Paul Rorem, Pseudo-Dionysius: A Commentary on the Texts and an Introduction to their Influence (NY: Oxford University Press, 1993), 184-185.

5. In Phyllis Hodgson (ed.), The Cloud of Unknowing and Related Treatises (Devon: Catholic Records Press, 1982), 88.

6. In Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD (ed.), St. John of the Cross: Selected Writings, The Classics of Western Spirituality (NY: Paulist Press, 1987), 201-202.

7. Symeon: The New Theologian, trans. C.J. de Catanzaro. The Classics of Western Spirituality (NY: Paulist Press, 1980), 230, 365.

8. de Catanzaro, 298.

9. de Catanzaro, 300, 340, 120, 194-5.

10. de Catanzaro, 195, 303, 233, 363.

11. de Catanzaro, 198, 246.

12. Matthew Fox (ed.), Hildegard of Bingen: Book of Divine Works (Santa Fe: Bear & Co., 1987), 8, 15, 138, 106.

13. Fox, 349.

14. Fox, 212, 239.

15. Fox, 27, 86-87.

16. John Ruusbroek: The Spiritual Espousals and Other Works, trans. James A. Wiseman, OSB. The Classics of Western Spirituality (NY: Paulist Press, 1985), 160, 70, 147, 113-115.

17. "The Sixth State of Prayer," in The Autobiography of Venerable Marie of the Incarnation, trans. John J. Sullivan, SJ (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1964), 44.

18. In Catherine of Siena: The Dialogue, trans. Suzanne Noffke, OP. The Classics of Western Spirituality (NY: Paulist Press, 1980), 364-365

19. Gregory Palamas: The Triads, trans. Nicholas Gendle. The Classics of Western Spirituality (NY: Paulist Press, 1983), 33, 76.

20. Teresa of Avila: The Interior Castle, trans. Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD, and Otilio Rodriguez, OCD. The Classics of Western Spirituality (NY: Paulist Press, 1979), 136, 157, 39.

21. The Journal of George Fox, John L. Nickalls, ed. (Cambridge: The University Press, 1952), 33.

22. Journal, 225.

23. Journal, 309.

24. Journal, 155.

25. Journal, 176.

26. Journal, 303.

27. Journal, 296.

28. Jacob Boehme, The Aurora, trans. John Sparrow. (London: John W. Watkins & James Clarke Co. Ltd., 1960), 118.

29. Boehme, Aurora, 178-79.

30. Boehme, Aurora, 636.

31. Boehme, Aurora, 152.

32. W. Scott Palmer, ed., The Confessions of Jacob Boehme (London: Methuen, 1954), 5-6.

33. Palmer, ed., Confessions, 153.

34. Palmer, ed., Confessions, 23.

35. Boehme, Aurora, 133.

36. Boehme, Aurora, 136-37.

37. Boehme, Aurora, 34.

38. Boehme, "The Way to Christ," trans. Peter Erb. The Classics of Western Spirituality (NY: Paulist Press, 1978), 247.

39. Boehme, Aurora, 35.

40. Kavanaugh and Rodriguez, 88, 104, 127, 135, 141, 157.

41. Wiseman, 87-88, 132, 135, 146, 259.

42. Matthew Fox, 40, 117, 212, 217, 349.

43. de Catanzaro, 56, 201, 202, 229, 242, 246, 360, 364.

44. The Journal of George Fox, 309.

45. Journal, 284.

46. Journal, 283.

47. Journal, 60.

48. Boehme, Aurora, 59.

49. Boehme, Aurora, 74.

50. Palmer, ed., Confessions, 49, 57.

51. Boehme, Aurora, 157.

52. Palmer, ed., Confessions, 142.

53. Gendle, 38.

54. Noffke, 366

55. "The Seventh State of Prayer," in Sullivan, 158.

56. Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation (Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1949), 231-232

57. de Catanzaro, 45, 58-59, 252, 295.

58. de Catanzaro, 198, 231.

59. Gendle, 34, 36-37, 90.

60. Wiseman, 134, 147, 220-221, 45-46.

61. Kavanaugh and Rodriguez, 35.

62. Matthew Fox, 357.

63. The Journal of George Fox, 175.

64. Journal, 294.

65. Journal, 33.

66. Journal, 234.

67. Journal, 143.

68. Boehme, "The Way to Christ," 133.

69. Boehme, Aurora, 564.

70. Palmer, Confessions, 43-44.

71. Palmer, Confessions, 87.

72. Palmer, Confessions, 47