Notes from Day Two

The quote I mentioned from Eckhart is:

“they do him wrong who take God just in one particular way. They take the way rather than God”.

It is from Sermon 19. Eckhart is a Dominican who lived from around 1260 to 1328. His history is controversial, but his writings are profound.

The Orthodox podcast I recommended is Our Life in Christ. If you go to their archives page and look for Feb 2005 you’ll find a four part series on Prayers to the Saints. The rest of their output is well worth listening to.

Daily Prayers (services for Morning, Evening and Night Prayer) can be found at the Church of England website.

I was asked for some book recommendations on church history. There are very few one volume histories (2,000 years is a lot to fit into a few pages) but I would recommend:

• Mark Noll, Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity
• John McManners (ed), The Oxford History of Christianity

If you want to look in more detail at a particular period, there is an absolutely superb annotated Bibliography here.

For more online on Benedictine monasticism see the Order of Saint Benedict. For Franciscans in this country go here and look also at the Dominicans.

For plenty of historic texts go to the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. You’ll find St. Teresa of Avila here. A good discussion of her life and work is by Rowan Williams called, unsurprisingly, Teresa of Avila.

A good site for early texts is Early Christian Writings.

Finally, I have posted some book recommendations elsewhere for the third years which might also be of interest to you.