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Wisdom Spiritualities
- Introduction
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- Of all the sections of scripture, the wisdom tradition is perhaps
most like what we think of when we imagine the term "spirituality"
today. This is the corpus most interested in the individual, in
finding the good or virtuous life, in forming character. This
is the corpus that gives us teachings-beatitudes, parables, aphorisms,
proverbs. But what ancients thought the good life looked like
is at times a little different from our own views. What can the
wisdom literature teach us about character formation?
- Notes
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- Reading
- Scripture: Job 1-14; 38-42; Ecclesiastes 6; Matthew
5-7; 13:1-50
- Secondary: Brown, Character in Crisis, 1-21, 50-119
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- Notes
- Under construction.
- Bibliography
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Crosby, Michael H. Spirituality of the Beatitudes: Matthew’s
Challenge for First World Christians. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1981.
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Girard, Rene. Job, the Victim of His People, trans. Yvonne
Freccero. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987.
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Jung, Karl. Answer to Job, trans. R. F. C. Hull. Cleveland:
World, 1967/1963.
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Kushner, Harold S. When Bad Things Happen to Good People.
New York: Schocken Books, 1981.
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McKenna, Megan. Parables: The Arrows of God. Maryknoll:
Orbis, 1994.
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Norris, Kathleen. The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy
and "Women’s Work," Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality.
Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist, 1998
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- Palmer, Parker J. "All the Way Down: Depression and the Spiritual
Journey." Weavings: A Journal of the Christian Spiritual
Life 13 (1998) 30-41.
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Russell, Mary Doria. The Sparrow. New York: Fawcett, 1997.
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