The Spiritual Life

Joseph Koterski, S.J. (Ph.D., St. Louis University, 1982) is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Fordham University, where he has won both the Dean's Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching and the Graduate Teacher of the Year Award. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Philosophical Quarterly, and serves as chaplain and tutor in Fordham's Queens Court Residential College for Freshmen. He was ordained a priest of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus in 1992, after studies at the Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Course Number 038
12 lectures.

  1. Introduction
  2. Goals of Spiritual Life
  3. Christ. the Way, the Truth and the life
  4. Recapitulation by and in Christ
  5. Grace
  6. Conversion from Sin
  7. Progress Through Purification
  8. The Sacraments
  9. Further Reflection on Sacraments
  10. The Virtues
  11. Prayer
  12. Examination of Conscience & Discernment of Spirit



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