List of topics:

 

W. June 15

1. Diogenes and the Cynics CP

 

Th. June 16

2. Christian Asceticism

Kalistos Ware, Asceticism “The Way of the Ascetics: Negative or Affirmative?”, CP 51-57

and

E. Clark, “Asceticism in Late Ancient Christianity”, CP 58-73

 

M June 20

3. Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Thomas Merton)

 

Th. June 23

4. Byzantium: Life of Simeon the Fool of Emesa CP 122-142

 

M. June 27

5. Life of St. Andrew of Constantinople, CP 143-193

 

W. June 29

6. Eastern and Western Christianity

Meyendorff, “The Schism between East and West” CP 194-200

 

7. Western Monasticism: overview of monastic spirituality CP 84-111

Medieval Italy: historic overview; religious movements; religious orders

 

M. July 4

8. Writings of St. Francis of Assisi and Writings of St. Clare of Assisi

 

Th. July 7

9. Discussion of Saint Francis by Nikos Kazatzakis

 

Th. July 14

10. Modern Russian holy fools: St. John of St. Francisco

 

11. Holy fools in Russian literature: Tolstoi: The Holy Fool and Grisha, CP 276-280

Dostoevsky: from the Possessed, from the Brothers Karamazov, CP 281-286, 287-289

Turgenev, “A Strange Story,” CP 290-300

 

M. July 18

12. Svetlana Vasilenko’s “Little Fool”

 

W. July 20

13. Michel Foucault: “The Birth of the Asylum,” from his Madness and Civilization