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THE CLASSICS
OF WESTERN SPIRITUALITY
THE CLASSICS
OF WESTERN SPIRITUALITY
Donated by Dr.
Joseph
F. Kelly
THE CLASSICS OF WESTERN SPIRITUALITY A Library of the Great Spiritual Masters
President and Publisher Lawrence Boadt, C.S.P.
EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-Chief
Bernard
McGinn —Naomi
Shenstone Donnelly Professor of Historical The-
ology and the History of Christianity, Divinity School, University of Chicago, Chicago,
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Editorial Consultant
Ewert H. Cousins
—Professor of Theology, Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y.
John E. Booty— Professor of Anglican
Studies, School of Theology, University
of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.
Joseph
Dan— Professor of Kabbalah,
Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew
University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Louis Dupre —T. L. New Haven, Conn.
Riggs Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Yale University,
Rozanne Elder— Executive Vice-President,
Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo,
Mich.
Michael Fishbane
—Nathan Cummings Professor, Divinity School, University
of Chicago, Chicago,
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Anne Fremantle —Teacher, Karlfried Froehlich
Editor, and Writer,
New York,
N.Y.
—
Professor of the History of the Early and Medieval Church, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J.
Arthur Green
—Professor of Jewish Thought, Brandeis University, Waltham,
Mass.
—
Stanley S. Harakas Archbishop lakovos Professor of Orthodox Theology, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Seminary, Brookline, Mass.
Moshe Hebrew
Idel
— Professor of Jewish Thought,
Department of Jewish Thought,
University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Bishop KallistOS of Diokleia— Fellow
of Pembroke College, Oxford, Spald-
ing Lecturer in Eastern Orthodox Studies, Oxford University, England.
George A. Maloney— Spiritual Writer and Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Lecturer, Seal Beach, Calif.
—Professor of Islamic
Studies,
George Washington
University, Washington, D.C.
Raimon Panikkar— Professor
Emeritus, Department of Religious Studies,
Universit)' of California at Santa Barbara, Calif.
Jaroslav Pelikan University,
Sandra
— Sterling Professor of History and Religious Studies, Yale
New Haven,
M.
Conn.
Schneiders
— Professor of New Testament Studies and
Spirituality,
Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, Calif.
—
Michael A.
Sells Emily Judson Baugh and John Marshall Gest Professor of Comparative Religions, Haverford College, Haverford, Penn.
Huston Smith —Thomas J. Watson Universit}', Syracuse,
Professor of Religion Emeritus, Syracuse
N.Y.
John R. Sommerfeldt— Professor
of History, University of Dallas, Irving,
Tex.
David Steindl-Rast— Spiritual
Author, Benedictine Grange, West Redding,
Conn.
—Greeley Professor of Roman Catholic Studies, Divinity School,
David Tracy
University of Chicago, Chicago,
The Most Canterbury.
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Rev. and Rt. Hon.
Rowan D. Williams—Archbishop
of
riil
SorsKy
THE COMPLETE WRITINGS EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY
GEORGE A. MALONEY, S.J. PREFACE BY
JOHN L MINA
m PAULIST PRESS
NEW YORK • MAHWAH, N.J.
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