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'''Classics of Western Spirituality [CWS]''' is an English-language book series published by Paulist Press between 1978 and the present, which offers an extensive library of historical texts on [[Christianity|Christian]] [[spirituality]] as well as a representative selection of works on [[Judaism|Jewish]], [[Islam|Islamic]], [[Sufism|Sufi]] and [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] spirituality. Each volume is critically selected and translated by one or more internationally recognized scholars and spiritual leaders, with scholarly introductions and carefully selected bibliographies of both primary and secondary materials. The series contains multiple genres of spiritual writing, including poems, songs, essays, theological treatises, meditations, mystical biographies, and philosophical investigations, and features works by famous authors such as [[Augustine of Hippo]] and [[Martin Luther]] as well as lesser known authors such as [[Maximus the Confessor]] and [[Moses de León]].
'''Classics of Western Spirituality [CWS]''' is an English-language book series published by Paulist Press between 1978 and the present, which offers an extensive library of historical texts on [[Christianity|Christian]] [[spirituality]] as well as a representative selection of works on [[Judaism|Jewish]], [[Islam|Islamic]], [[Sufism|Sufi]] and [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] spirituality. Each volume is critically selected and translated by one or more internationally recognized scholars and spiritual leaders, with scholarly introductions and carefully selected bibliographies of both primary and secondary materials. The series contains multiple genres of spiritual writing, including poems, songs, essays, theological treatises, meditations, mystical biographies, and philosophical investigations, and features works by famous authors such as [[Augustine of Hippo]] and [[Martin Luther]] as well as lesser known authors such as [[Maximus the Confessor]] and [[Moses de León]].

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Classics of Western Spirituality [CWS] is an English-language book series published by Paulist Press between 1978 and the present, which offers an extensive library of historical texts on Christian spirituality as well as a representative selection of works on Jewish, Islamic, Sufi and Native American spirituality. Each volume is critically selected and translated by one or more internationally recognized scholars and spiritual leaders, with scholarly introductions and carefully selected bibliographies of both primary and secondary materials. The series contains multiple genres of spiritual writing, including poems, songs, essays, theological treatises, meditations, mystical biographies, and philosophical investigations, and features works by famous authors such as Augustine of Hippo and Martin Luther as well as lesser known authors such as Maximus the Confessor and Moses de León.

CWS was originally planned by an editorial board of some thirty scholars to "[foster] more enlightened spiritual direction and fruitful meditation practices", and was projected to contain sixty volumes.[1] Today it comprises more than 130 volumes, and for ease of reference has been thematically subdivided below into pre-Reformation Christianity (57 volumes), Christianity after the Reformation (47 volumes) and Judaism, Islam and Native American religions (28 volumes).

The series was almost immediately "acclaimed as one of the most important religious publishing events of recent years."[2] An early reviewer remarked that "[t]he impression left by a preliminary contact with this courageous attempt to open the vast treasures of Western spiritual classics to present-day readers is one of astonished admiration. It is a triumph of editing and the printer's art."[3] More recently, in assessing the impact of the series as a whole, one scholar concluded that CWS has been responsible "not only in making the acknowledged classics of the tradition more available, accessible, and better known but also in the process . . . expanding and deepening the canon of classics and thereby both broadening and refining the definition of 'classics' and of 'spirituality' itself."[4]

Pre-Reformation Christianity

Post-Reformation Christianity

  • Alphonsus de Liguori: Selected Writings, edited by Fredrick M. Jones (1999, ISBN: 0809137712)
  • Angelus Silesius: The Cherubinic Wanderer, translated by Maria Shrady (1986, ISBN: 0809127687)
  • Bérulle and the French School: Selected Writings, edited by William M. Thompson (1989, ISBN: 0809104261)
  • Cambridge Platonist Spirituality, edited by Charles Taliaferro and Alison J. Teply (2004, ISBN: 080910539)
  • Early Anabaptist Spirituality: Selected Writings, edited by Daniel Liechty (1994, ISBN: 0809104660)
  • Early Protestant Spirituality, edited by Scott H. Hendrix (2009, ISBN: 9780809142118)
  • Élisabeth Leseur: Selected Writings, edited by Janet Ruffing (2005, ISBN: 0809143291)
  • Emanuel Swedenborg: The Universal Human and Soul-Body Interaction, edited by George F. Dole (1984, ISBN: 0809125544)
  • The Emergence of Evangelical Spirituality: The Age of Edwards, Newton, and Whitefield, edited by Tom Schwanda (2016, ISBN: 9780809106219)
  • Fénelon: Selected Writings, edited by Chad Helms (2006, ISBN: 0809141515)
  • Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal: Letters of Spiritual Devotion, translated by Péronne Marie Thibert (1988, ISBN: 0809129906)
  • George Herbert: The Country Parson and the Temple, edited by John N. Wall Jr. (1981, ISBN: 0809122987)
  • Jacob Boehme: The Way to Christ, edited by Peter C. Erb (1978, ISBN: 0809121026)
  • John Baptist de La Salle: Spirituality of Christian Education, edited by Carl Koch, Jeffrey Calligan, and Jeffrey Gros (2004, ISBN: 0809141620)
  • Jeanne Guyon: Selected Writings, edited by Dianne Guenin-Lelie and Ronney Mourad (2012, ISBN: 9780809147182)
  • Jeremy Taylor: Selected Works, edited by Thomas K. Carroll (1990, ISBN: 0809104385)
  • Johann Arndt: True Christianity, translated by Peter C. Erb (1979, ISBN: 0809121921)
  • John and Charles Wesley: Selected Writings and Hymns, edited by Frank Whaling (1981, ISBN: 0809123681)
  • John Calvin: Writings on Pastoral Piety, edited by Elsie Anne McKee (2001, ISBN: 0809140462)
  • John Comenius: The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart, translated by Howard Louthan and Andrea Sterk (1998, ISBN: 0809137399)
  • John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers, edited by John Booty (1990, ISBN: 0809104350)
  • John Henry Newman: Selected Sermons, edited by Ian Ker (1994, ISBN: 0809104652)
  • John of Avila: Audi, filia–Listen, O Daughter, translated by Joan Frances Gormley (2006, ISBN: 0809142007)
  • John of the Cross: Selected Writings, edited by Kieran Kavanaugh (1987, ISBN: 080912839)
  • Jonathan Edwards: Spiritual Writings, edited by Kyle C. Stroebel, Adriaan C. Neele, and Kenneth P. Minkema (2019, ISBN: 0809106345)
  • Luis de León: The Names of Christ, translated by Manuel Durán and William Kluback (1984, ISBN: 0809125617)
  • Luther’s Spirituality, edited by Philip D. W. Krey and Peter D. S. Krey (2007, ISBN: 9780809105144)
  • Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi: Selected Revelations, translated by Amando Maggi (2000, ISBN: 0809139235)
  • Miguel de Molinos: The Spiritual Guide, edited by Robert P. Baird (2010, ISBN: 9780809146505)
  • Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain: A Handbook of Spiritual Counsel, translated by Peter A. Chamberas (1989, ISBN: 0809104199)
  • Nil Sorsky: The Complete Writings, edited by George A. Maloney (2003, ISBN: 0809138107)
  • The Pietists: Selected Writings, edited by Peter C. Erb (1983, ISBN: 0809125099)
  • The Pilgrim's Tale, edited by Aleksei Pentkovsky (1999, ISBN: 0809137097)
  • Quaker Spirituality: Selected Writings, edited by Douglas Steere (1984, ISBN: 0809125102)
  • Robert Bellarmine: Spiritual Writings, edited by John P. Donnelly and Roland J. Teske (1989, ISBN: 0809103893)
  • Scandinavian Pietists: Spiritual Writings for 19th Century Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland, edited by Mark A. Granquist (2015, ISBN: 0809106183)
  • Schleiermacher: Christmas Dialogue, The Second Speech, and Other Selections, edited and translated by Julia A. Lamm (2015, ISBN: 0809106078)
  • Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Meditations and Hymns, edited by Eric Lund (2011, ISBN: 9780809147298)
  • The Shakers: Two Centuries of Spiritual Reflection, edited by Robley E. Whitson (1983, ISBN: 0809123738)
  • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Writings, translated by Pamela Kirk Rappaport (2005, ISBN: 0809140128)
  • Søren Kierkegaard: Discourses and Writings on Spirituality, translated by Christopher B. Barnett (2019, ISBN: 9780809106486)
  • The Spirituality of the German Awakening, edited by David Crowner and Gerald Christianson (2003, ISBN: 0809141086)
  • Teresa of Avila: The Interior Castle, edited by Kieran Kavanaugh (1979, ISBN: 0809122545)
  • Theatine Spirituality: Selected Writings, edited by William V. Hudon (1996, ISBN: 0809104792)
  • The Theologia Germanica of Martin Luther by Bengt Hoffman (1980, ISBN: 080912291)
  • Valentin Weigel: Selected Spiritual Writings, translated by Charles Andrew Weeks (2003, ISBN: 0809142066)
  • Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marillac: Rules, Conferences, and Writings, edited by Frances Ryan and John E. Rybolt (1995, ISBN: 080910471)
  • William Law: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, the Spirit of Love, edited by Paul Stanwood (1978, ISBN: 0809121441)
  • Wycliffite Spirituality, edited by J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Stephen E. Lahey, and Fiona Somerset (2013, ISBN: 9780809106059)

Judaism

  • Abraham Isaac Kook: The Lights of Penitence, the Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, Essays, Letters, and Poems, translated by Ben-Zion Bokser (1978, ISBN: 080912159)
  • Abraham Miguel Cardozo: Selected Writings, translated by David J. Halperin (2001, ISBN: 0809140233)
  • The Classic Midrash: Tannaitic Commentaries on the Bible by Reuven Hammer (1995, ISBN: 0809104679)
  • The Early Kabbalah, edited by Joseph Dan (1986, ISBN: 0809127695)
  • Elijah Benamozegh: Israel and Humanity, edited by Maxwell Luria (1995, ISBN: 0809135418)
  • Hasidic Spirituality of a New Era: The Religious Writings of Hillel Zeitlin, edited by Arthur Green (2012, ISBN: 9780809147717)
  • Isaiah Horowitz: The Generations of Adam, edited by Miles Krassen (1996, ISBN: 0809135906)
  • Jewish Mystical Autobiographies: The Book of Visions and the Book of Secrets, translated by Morris M. Faierstein (1999, ISBN: 0809105047)
  • Menahem Nahum of Chemobyl: Upright Practices, the Light of the Eyes, translated by Arthur Green (1982, ISBN: 0809123746)
  • Nahman of Bratslav: The Tales, translated by Arnold Band (1978, ISBN: 0809121034)
  • Philo of Alexandria: The Contemplative Life, The Giants, and Selections by Philo of Alexandria, translated by David Winston (1981, ISBN: 0809123339)
  • Rabbinic Stories, translated by Jeffery L. Rubenstein (2002, ISBN: 0809105330)
  • Safed Spirituality: Rules of Mystical Piety, The Beginning of Wisdom, translated by Lawrence Fine (1984, ISBN: 0809126125)
  • The Talmud: Selected Writings, translated by Ben-Zion Bokser (1989, ISBN: 0809131145)
  • Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment, translated by Daniel Chanan Matt (1983, ISBN: 0809123878)

Islam

  • Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari: Songs of Love and Devotion, translated by Lourdes Maria Alvarez (2009, ISBN: 9780809145942)
  • Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur’an, Mi’raj, Poetic and Theological Writings, edited by Michael A. Sells (1996, ISBN: 0809104776)
  • Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes, translated by William C. Chittick and Peter L. Wilson (1982, ISBN: 080912372)
  • Farid ad-Din Attar’s Memorial of God’s Friends: Lives and Sayings of Sufis, translated by Paul Edward Losensky (2009, ISBN: 9780809145737)
  • Ibn 'Abbad of Ronda: Letters on the Sufi Path, translated by John Renard (1986, ISBN: 080912730)
  • Ibn Al 'Arabi: The Bezels of Wisdom, translated by R. W. J. Austin (1980, ISBN: 0809123312)
  • Ibn ‘Ata’ Illah Iskandari/Kwaja Abdullah Ansari: The Book of Wisdom/Intimate Conversations, translated by Victor Danner and Wheeler M. Thackston (1978, ISBN: 0809121824)
  • Knowledge of God in Classical Sufism: Foundations of Islamic Mystical Theology, translated by John Renard (2004, ISBN: 0809140306)
  • Nizam Ad-Din Awliya: Morals for the Heart, translated by Bruce B. Lawrence (1992, ISBN: 0809104512)
  • Sharafuddin Maneri: The Hundred Letters, translated by Paul Jackson (1980, ISBN: 0809122294)
  • Umar Ibn al-Farid: Sufi Verse, Saintly Life, translated by Thomas Emil Homerin (2001, ISBN: 0809105284)

Native American Spirituality

  • Native North American Spirituality of the Eastern Woodlands: Sacred Myths, Dreams, Visions, Speeches, Healing Formulas, Rituals and Ceremonials, edited by Elizabeth Tooker (1979, ISBN: 0809122561)
  • Native Meso-American Spirituality: Ancient Myths, Discourses, Stories, Doctrines, Hymns, Poems from the Aztec, Yucatec, Quiche-Maya and Other Sacred Traditions, edited by Miguel León-Portilla (1980, ISBN: 0809122316)

References

  1. ^ Quoted in Slade, H.E.W. (1980). "The Classics of Western Spirituality". Theology 83: 228–29.
  2. ^ (October 1978). "Briefly Noted". Worldview 21: 57–58.
  3. ^ Slade, H.E.W. (1980). "The Classics of Western Spirituality". Theology 83: 228–29.
  4. ^ Schneiders, Sandra M. (2005). "The Impact of the Classics of Western Spirituality Series on the Discipline of Christian Spirituality". Spiritus 5: 97–102.
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