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Monastic StudiesMONS 402 Monastic History I: Pre-Benedict. (3)The rise of monasticism within the early Church of East and West to the time of Benedict. Cross-listed with HHTH 413. MONS 404 Monastic History II: Benedict to the Reformation. (3)The development of Western monastic life and reform movements from the early Middle Ages through the fifteenth century. Cross-listed with HHTH 415. MONS 406 Monastic History III: Reformation to the Present. (3)The decline of Western monasticism in the sixteenth century through its revival in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Cross-listed with HHTH 417. MONS 410 Rule of Benedict. (3)The Rule and its sources; exegesis of the text; issues of interpretation. MONS 412 Monastic Structures. (1)The history of Benedictine monastic structures of governance, including individual monasteries and congregations. The present laws governing monasteries. The rights and obligations of monastics. Visions for the future. MONS 421 Monastic Liturgy. (3)The origins of the Liturgy of the Hours and its development in the monastic tradition. The liturgical codes of the Rules of the Master and Benedict. Contemporary forms of the monastic office. Eucharistic and communion rites in monastic settings. Liturgies of profession, reconciliation and burial. MONS 423 Monastic Formation. (3)The formation of the Christian in the context of the faith-giving community. Conversatio, stability and obedience. Conveying and supporting faith in the monastic context through eagerness for the work of God, for obedience and for humble service. Special emphasis on lectio divina. Examination of the ways monasticism has traditionally realized community: common prayer, common meals, common decision-making and common support of work. MONS 434 Monastic Spiritual Theology. (3)The Christian monastic tradition from the perspective of monastic classics. Cross-listed with SPIR 434. MONS 435 Christian Asceticism. (3)Christian asceticism is centered upon a discernment of motivations, influences, and goals conducted within a relationship of spiritual accompaniment by an experienced guide. The psychological and spiritual insights of many early Christian writers, especially monastic ones, are a valuable but rarely used resource for spiritual directors, pastors, counselors, and persons seeking spiritual guidance. This course will be a study of Classical, early Christian and relevant later texts which bear on issues of spiritual growth and pastoral guidance. Cross-listed with SPIR 435. MONS 436 Bible and Prayer. (3)This course will examine early Christian and monastic attitudes toward the biblical text and the interplay between the Bible and forms of prayer. Topics will include: methods of interpreting the Bible; ways of encountering the Bible (reading, memorization, meditation), kinds of early monastic prayer and their biblical basis. There will also be some attention to the subsequent history of those traditions and a consideration of present-day implications. Cross-listed with SPIR 436. MONS 437 Desert Ammas. (3)Fourth century Christianity gave birth to a spirituality which called women out of conventional understandings of wife, courtesan, and/or mother into lives of prayer, service, and the founding of communal households and monasteries. An exploration of writings by and about such foremothers on the monastic movement as Macrina, Melania, Paula, Eustochium, Marcella, Syncletica, Mary of Egypt, and Egeria, their social and historical realities, and their influence then and now. MONS 468 Topics in Monastic Studies. (1-3)MONS 470 Independent Study. (1-3)
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