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Christian Spirituality: A Framework


Lecture Description

Rev. Brian Daley, S.J., Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, describes some of the basic disciplines of the Christian life, a life of discipleship. In the process, he discusses some of the main features of Christian spirituality as ways of responding to the Gospel that integrate praise, reverence and service. Rev. Daley's lecture provides the perfect starting point for a discussion of Christian spirituality and its accompanying disciplines. This lecture was originally released on September 29, 2001 as part of a STEP videoconference series.

Meet the Developer

Rev. Brian E. Daley, S.J.

Rev. Brian E. Daley, S.J.

Fr. Daley is a historical theologian, who specializes in the study of the early Church, particularly the development of Christian doctrine from the fourth to the eighth centuries. He has prepared a critical edition of the works of the sixth-century Greek theologian Leontius of Byzantium, which is to appear in the series "Corpus Christianorum," and has written a number of articles for scholarly journals on ancient Christology, Trinitarian theology and eschatology. His most recent books are The Hope of the Early Church, (1991) and On The Dormition of Mary: Early Patristic Homilies, (1997), Gregory of Nazianzus (2006) [in the series, The Early Chuch Fathers], and translated Hans Urs von Balthasar's book, Kosmische Liturgie, as Cosmic Liturgy: the Universe According to Maximus the Confessor (2003). Presently he is working on a commentary on the Book of Psalms drawn from Patristic exegetical sources. In January and February, 2002, he delivered the annual D'Arcy Lectures in the University of Oxford, a series entitled: God Visible: Patristic Christology Reconsidered. The lectures should appear as a book before long. A past president of the North American Patristic Society, he is an editor of the scholarly journal Traditio, and also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Early Christian Studies. He has been a trustee of Le Moyne College, Boston College, Georgetown University and Fordham University, and is executive secretary of the Orthodox-Roman Catholic Consultation in North America.

B.A., Fordham University (1961); B.A., University of Oxford (1964); M.A., Oxford (1967); Ph.L., Loyola Seminary, Shrub Oak, NY (1966); Lic.theol., Hochschule Skt. Georgen (Frankfurt, Germany, 1972); D.Phil., University of Oxford (1978)

 




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