Course Introduction — Start Here
Module 1
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Lecture 1 – Introductory Comments, Guiding Thesis, and Framework for Understanding the Inner Transformation of a Peacemaker (34:51)
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Video Clip — “God Sits and Looks at Me” with Met. Kallistos Ware (The Work of the People)
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Video Clip — "Together" with Phileena Heuertz (The Work of the People)
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Supplemental Reading — Andrew Klager: "An Apologia of Monasticism in an Age of Human Doings and the Idolatry of Achievements" (Clarion Journal)
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Supplemental Reading — Richard Rohr and Thomas Keating – "Healing Our Violence through the Journey of Centering Prayer" | "Healing Our Violence: Weekly Summary"
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Supplemental Reading — Richard Rohr and Thomas Keating – "Healing Our Violence through the Journey of Centering Prayer" | "Catching Violence at the Beginning"
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Glossary of Terms – The Inner Transformation of a Peacemaker
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Contemplative and Ascetic Resources
Module 2
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Lecture 2 – Helpful Applications and the Theological and Scriptural Basis for the Inner Transformation of a Peacemaker (43:29)
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Video Clip — "What is Contemplative Prayer and Why is it so Needed?" with Richard Rohr
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Video Clip — "Father Martin Laird on Contemplation" (PBS)
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Supplemental Reading – Mario Aguilar, “Introduction: Issues in Contemplation and Politics Today"
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Supplemental Reading — Richard Rohr and Thomas Keating – "Healing Our Violence through the Journey of Centering Prayer" | "Letting Go of the Pain-Body"
Module 3
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Lecture 3 – Apophasis and Loving Our Enemies: The Practical and Theological Implications of Unknowing (59:12)
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Video Clip — "Recovery and Spirituality: Silence" (The Work of the People)
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Video Clip — “The Fire in Us: How to Become a Christian and What Does It Mean to Follow Christ?” with Fr Seraphim Aldea
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Supplemental Reading – Phileena Heuertz, "Contemplation and Social Justice"
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Supplemental Reading — Richard Rohr and Thomas Keating – "Healing Our Violence through the Journey of Centering Prayer" | "Dom Helder Camara"
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Supplemental Reading — Richard Rohr and Thomas Keating – "Healing Our Violence through the Journey of Centering Prayer" | "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil: The Spiral of Violence"
Module 4
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Lecture 4 – The Practical Application of the Inner Transformation of a Peacemaker (51:16)
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Video Clip — “Union” with Phileena Heuertz (The Work of the People)
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Video Clip — "Seeking Aliveness: Spirit" with Brian McLaren (The Work of the People)
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Supplemental Reading — Jim Forest and Thomas Merton, "Letter to a Young Activist," "A Square in a Patchwork Quilt," "The Root of Sin is Fear," and "Contemplation in a World of Action"
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Supplemental Reading — Richard Rohr and Thomas Keating – "Healing Our Violence through the Journey of Centering Prayer" | "The Warrior Archetype"
Module 5
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Lecture 5: Betty Pries — Healing the Divide between Self and Other: Conflict Transformation and Contemplative Spirituality in Dialogue (31:08)
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Video Clip — "Hearing the Voice of Love" with Phileena Heuertz (The Work of the People)
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Video Clip — Thomas Merton – “Conjectures of A Guilty Bystander” (The Work of the People)
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Supplemental Reading — John Paul Lederach, "Spirituality and Religious Peacebuilding"
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Supplemental Reading — Richard Rohr and Thomas Keating – "Healing Our Violence through the Journey of Centering Prayer" | "A Nonviolent Reformation"
Module 6
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Lecture 6: Walter Thiessen — Radical Self-Acceptance and Individual/Communal Humility as the Basis for Nonviolent Love of Enemies (22:34)
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Video Clip — “Dualism and Identity" with Richard Rohr (The Work of the People)
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Video Clip — “A Contemplative Moment” with Barbara A. Holmes (The Work of the People)
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Video Clip — “Transforming through Love” (The Work of the People)
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Supplemental Reading — Ron Kraybill, "Transforming the Peacebuilder" and "Conflict as Spiritual Path"
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