Spiritual Development and Contemporary Psychology

 Spiritual Development and Contemporary Psychology

The first section presents articles on either St Teresa or St John of the Cross and contemporary psychology. They use the findings of such established twentieth-century psychologists as Rollo May, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers and Carl Jung and apply them to Teresa and John’s descriptions of spiritual development. 


The second part contains just two articles. Blessed John Paul II’s summary of his thesis “The Question of Faith in St. John of the Cross” published in the Warsaw theological journal called Collectanea Theologica after he returned to his homeland from his studies in Rome. The second article examines the vein of Carmelite spirituality long held in esteem by the Order, namely, devotion to Mary the Queen Beauty of Carmel.



Christian Freedom and the Nights of St John of the Cross

by David Centner, OCD

Teresa, A Self-Actualized Woman

by J. Ruth Aldrich, PhD

Toward a Contemporary Model of Spiritual Direction: A Comparative Study of St John of the Cross and Carl Rogers

by Kevin Culligan, OCD

A Jungian Approach to Forgetting and Memory in St John of the Cross

by Russell Holmes, OCD

The Question of Faith in St John of the Cross

by Father Karol Wojtyla, STD (Blessed John Paul II)

Mary, the Bees of the Exsultet and the Carmelites

by John Sullivan, OCD



“In contemplation the soul attains that perfection of supernatural union with God which St. John of the Cross calls ‘transformation.’ ” 


Fr. Karol Wojtyła (Blessed John Paul II)