Theological Studies

Douglas Burton-Christie Professor of Theological Studies Department of Theological Studies Loyola Marymount University 1 LMU Drive, Suite 3700 Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659, USA Office: University Hall, Suite 3700 Email:dburton@lmu.edu

Books
1993 The Word in the Desert: Scripture and the Quest for Holiness in Early Christian Monasticism (London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).

Editorial work
2001- Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality (Journal of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality): Founding editor.
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2000 The Christian Spirituality Bulletin: Founding editor.

Articles/Book Chapters
2007 “The Spirit of Place: The Columbia River Watershed and the Meaning of Community,” in Thomas O’Brien and Scott Paeth, eds. Religious Perspectives on Business Ethics (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007: 277-294.

2006 “The Work of Loneliness: Thomas Merton’s Experiments in Solitude,” Anglican Theological Review 88:1 (Winter 2006): 25-46.

“St. Antony’s Fire,” Weavings XXI: 2 (March/April 2006): 23-30.

“The Weight of the World: The Heaviness of Nature in Spiritual Experience,” in Bruce Lescher and Elizabeth Liebert, eds., Exploring Christian Spirituality (New York: Paulist, 2006): 142-160.

2005 “Nature,” In Arthur Holder, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005): 478-495.

“Simplicity, or the Terror of Belief: The Making and Unmaking of the Self in Early Christian Monasticisim,” Cistercian Studies Quarterly 40:4 (2005): 353-364.

+“Desert Spirituality,” in the Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality, Philip Sheldrake, ed. (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2005).

2003 “The Wild and the Sacred,” Anglican Theological Review 85:3 (Summer, 2003): 493-510.

“The Spirit of Place: The Columbia River Watershed Letter and the Meaning of Community,” Horizons 30: 1 (Spring, 2003): 7-24.

2002 “The Transforming Power of the Word: Asceticism and Hermeneutics in Early Christian Monasticism.” In The World of Religions: Essays on Historical and Contemporary Issues. Ed. By Garry W. Trompf and Gildas Hamel (Delhi: ISPCK, 2002), 43-68.

“Wisdom: The Hidden Face of God.” Weavings 17:4 (July/August 2002): 6-20.

2001 “Hearing, Reading, Praying: Orality, Literacy and the Shape of Early Monastic Spirituality,” Anglican Theological Review 83:2 (Spring, 2001): 5-25.

“Memory and Hope,” Portland Magazine 20:1 (Spring 2001): 30-34.

2000 “Words Beneath the Water: Logos, Cosmos and the Spirit of Place,“ in Christianity and Ecology. Edited by Dieter T. Hessel and Rosemary Radford Ruether. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000): 317-336.

“Christ in Ten Thousand Places: Cultivating the Art of Attention,” Cistercian Studies Quarterly35: 1 (January2000): 113-123.

“The Immense Call of the Particular: Czeslaw Milosz on Nature, History and Hope.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 7:1 (Winter 2000): 115-129.

“Into the Empty Places,” Weavings 15:1 (Jan/Feb 2000): 19-27.

1999 "The Sense of Place," The Way 39:1 (January, 1999): 59-72.

“Into the Body of Another: Eros, Embodiment and Intimacy with the Natural World,” Anglican Theological Review 81:1 (Winter, 1999): 13-37.

"The Place of the Heart: Geography and Spirituality in The Life of Antony," in Purity of Heart in Early Ascetical Literature. Edited by Harriet A. Luckman and Linda Kulzer (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1999):45-66.

“Living on the Edge of Eternity,” in The Best Spiritual Writing 1999. Edited by Philip Zaleski (San Francisco: Harper, 1999): 38-49.

1998 "The Call of the Desert: Purity of Heart and Power in Early Christian Monasticism," Pro Ecclesia 7: 2 (Spring, 1998): 216-234.

"Living on the Edge of Eternity," Weavings 13: 4 (July/August 1998): 15-24

"Desert Spirituality," Year-long series in Liguorian Magazine.

1997 "Oral Culture and Biblical Interpretation in Early Christian Monasticism," Studia Patristica XXX (Leuven: Peeters Press, 1997): 144- 150.

"Living Between Two Worlds: Home, Journey and The Quest for Sacred Place," Anglican Theological Review 79: 3 (Summer, 1997): 413-432.

"Biblical Interpretation and Asceticism in Early Greek Christianity" in Paul M. Blowers, ed. The Bible and the World of Greek Christianity (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997): 415-440.

"Into the Labyrinth: Walking the Way of Wisdom," Weavings XII: 4 (July/August, 1997): 19-28.

"The Word in the Desert: The Biblical Spirituality of Early Christian Monasticism," American Baptist Quarterly XVI: 1 (March, 1997): 69-80.

1996 "Nature, Spirit and Imagination in the Poetry of Mary Oliver," Cross Currents 46: 1 (Spring, 1996): 77-87.

"Learning to See: Epiphany in the Ordinary," Weavings 11: 6 (Nov/Dec. 1996): 6-16.

"Interlude: The Literature of Nature and the Quest for the Sacred," in The Sacred Place, ed. by W. Scott Olsen and Scott Cairns (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1996): 165-177.

"Fire and Silence," Orion Magazine 15: 4 (Autumn 1996): 65-67.

1995 "We Already Have All That We Seek: Prayer as Radical Simplicity,"

Weavings 10: 3 (May/June 1995): 14-23.

1994 "Mapping the Sacred Landscape: Spirituality and the Contemporary Literature of Nature," Horizons 21: 1 (Spring, 1994): 22-47.

"The Literature of Nature and the Quest for the Sacred," The Way Supplement 81 (1994): 4-14.

1993 "A Feeling for the Natural World: Spirituality and the Appeal to the Heart in Contemporary Nature Writing," Continuum 2: 2-3 (Spring, 1993).

"The Grace of Unknowing," Weavings 8: 5 (September/October, 1993).

"Scripture, Self-Knowledge and Contemplation in Cassian's

Conferences," Studia Patristica 25 (Leuven: Peeters Press, 1993).

1989 "Practice Makes Perfect: Interpretation of Scripture in the Apophthegmata Patrum," Studia Patristica 20 (Leuven: Peeters Press, 1989): 213-18.

"Rediscovering Love's World: Thomas Merton's Love Poems and the Language of Ecstasy," Cross Currents 39: 1 (Spring, 1989): 64-82.
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