Articles - Further Reading

Academic and Other Articles for Further Reading

Whether you are a teacher, parishioner, involved in a ministry of some kind, a religious, priest, or just a person interested in spiritual formation - I hope that you will find some of these articles and reflections interesting. I have included about 50 articles including a 2nd copy of my latest CV if the reader is interested.

The documents which I have downloaded from my Google Drive cover the best I hope of what I have written over about 50 years of research, based on my BADipEd, and then the fruit of my theological studies - BTheol, MTheol, and DTheol (all explained in the initial "About Me" page above).

The articles range from more general reflections to more complex, blind-refereed, academic journal articles. Some of the topics addressed in these articles which might be of interest to you, the reader, are: 

• the Divine Pedagogy (the way God stretches us during life and education)

• Breathing meditation

• The Sabbath and the "Re-Souling" of daily life

• Spirituality of Oceans (Thalassic spirituality)

• Monasticism

• St Augustine

• Small group or family rituals (my first published article back in 1994)

• Threshold Concepts and the crossing of boundaries in RE and spirituality

• Leaving Home

• Sacred Space

• Meditative Reading of Scripture and 'Lectio Divina'

• Connected Knowing vs Separate Knowing

• Jesus as 'the Wise Fool'

• The Arts, RE, SF, and the way of the Artist

• Kataphatic (visible, wordful) vs Apophatic (hidden, wordless) forms of spirituality

• Pope Francis and 'opening doors'

• Richard Rohr and his spirituality

• Thomas Merton and his 'pedagogy'

• Haiku and how to write them

• Artificial Intelligence and Catholic Theology

• Contemplative Pedagogy

• the Catholic Liberal Arts and how to teach them

• the Way of Subtraction vs the way of Hubris (Pride)

• the proposal of a Spiritual Alphabet: an A to Z of spiritual formation terms; and many more. 

I trust that you will find something that interests you.

With best wishes. Enjoy. Peter.