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R9 Spiritual Traditions

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Spiritual Traditions Weekend

What is this Weekend all about?
Useful resources for Spiritual Traditions Weekend
The Student Spot
R9 Programme

Resources Addition Form
Contributions to this page

Welcome to the R9 Spiritual Traditions Weekend web page. This page is designed to provide useful resources relating to topics covered in R9 with WEMTC. If you have found useful resources or have questions you would like ask, please do contribute. This weekend is linked to the R8 Spirituality and Self module and the R4 Retreat module

What is this Weekend all about?

This residential gives students the opportunity to experience and reflect in depth on one strand of Christian Spirituality within the context of other major approaches to prayer and in groups and through lectures to discern its relevance and purpose within the contemporary Church community.

The Spiritual Traditions weekend usually occurs in December and is a reflective style weekend.

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Useful resources for R9

Books

The following are indicative books for this weekend:

De Waal, E. Seeking God The Way of St Benedict Collins 1984
Hebblethwaite, M. Finding God in all Things Collins 1987
Mursell, G. English Spirituality: from the early days to 1700 SPCK 2001
Short, W. Poverty and Joy: The Franciscan Tradition DLT 1999
Spearing, E.Trans. The Revelations of Divine Love of Julian of Norwich Penguin Classics 1998
Wakefield, G. Methodist Spirituality SCM 1999

For more detailed bibliographies see our Spiritual Traditions Booklists.
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R9 Spiritual Traditions Web Resources

You may find the following web sites helpful for the Spiritual Traditions. Material on the net has no quality control making tutors very wary - and rightly so! Nevertheless there is a growing amount of first class work on line particularly coming from Religious Studies Departments of good Universities. Treat with care and you'll find it very useful.

The Internet is not 100% reliable and documents move, disappear and change their names. If you find a link does not work, try again in an hour, a day, or a week. But do feel free to email us to report a link doesn't work. Don't forget to tell us the name of the link!

Resources Generally
There is much out there but I haven't had the time to go browsing yet. See the general religion links as a starting point for your own searching

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The Student Spot

This spot is for contributions from those who are doing or have done R9. It needs your contributions - books that have been helpful, questions you would like answered, adverts for things related to the module etc. Content is monitored by the webmaster with reference to the tutors and class reps if necessary. Click here to submit something for the page.

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A sample R9 Weekend Programme

Please note that programmes are constantly being revised and the actual content of your weekend may look rather different.

Programme

Friday
6:30 Arrive
9:00 Dinner
8:00 Session 1 - The Roots of our Spirituality
9:30 Night Prayer

Saturday
8:00 Worship
8:30 Breakfast
9:15 Session 2 - Roots laid bare
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Session 3 - Living out the Roots
1:00 Lunch
2:15 Session 4 - Living out the Roots cont.
3:00 Free
4:00 Tea
4:30 Session 5 - Reflections
6:00 Worship
6:30 Dinner
7:30 Session 6 - Spiritual Classics.

Sunday
8:30 Breakfast
9:15 Session 7 - Epistles cont
10:30 WEMTC Forum
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Worship
1:00 Lunch

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Contribution to this Page

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The Full Module Description for R9 Spiritual Traditions

Code and title

R9 Spiritual Traditions

Tutor

Keith Crouch, Elizabeth Harper

Brief description

Level and Credits

Contributes to F101 Ministerial Formation or V101 Vocational Discernment

Status

Core for Ordinands

Type

Standard

Prerequisites

Nil

Recommended prior study

Prepared Reading

Restrictions

Open to Ordinands and Methodist Foundation Students only

Content summary

This weekend will cover:

Broad outline of the spiritual traditions and movements which have come to shape Western Christianity and contemporary spirituality
At least three major strands of the spiritual tradition, e.g. Benedictine, Franciscan, Ignatian, Methodist, Evangelical, Charismatic, .
A Quiet day experiencing one of the more contemplative approaches to prayer and the opportunity to reflect and compare the day in groups
Reflection on the contribution of Spiritual Traditions to the denominations to which students belong
Brief introduction to resources in Spiritual classics and how they relate to contemporary culture

Learning outcomes

By the end of these weekends students should:

a) Knowledge and Understanding

Have experienced/lived out one major tradition
Have a greater awareness of the major traditions of spirituality
Be able to compare and contrast major strands of the tradition
Have greater knowledge of spiritual classics

b) Skills

Broadened their approach to prayer and spirituality
Be better able to explore a particular tradition for themselves and others in prayer and living
Formed a basic framework for working with others in spiritual counsel
Be able to discern classical roots of prayer and spirituality in their own denominations and traditions

Teaching and learning

10 hours
7 hours class contact
3 hours personal study (prior reading, self reflection, discussion in Formation Groups and with Tutor)

Assessment

A self-reflection exercise in prescribed format

Indicative resources

De Waal, E. Seeking God The Way of St Benedict Collins 1984
Hebblethwaite, M. Finding God in all Things Collins 1987
Mursell, G. English Spirituality: from the early days to 1700 SPCK 2001
Short, W. Poverty and Joy: The Franciscan Tradition DLT 1999
Spearing, E.Trans. The Revelations of Divine Love of Julian of Norwich Penguin Classics 1998
Wakefield, G. Methodist Spirituality SCM 1999

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