THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The Symposim involved the study of writings of Dom Augustine Baker, the English Benedictine mystical writer. It celebrated the retirement of Dr James Hogg, the distinguished general editor of the Analecta Cartusians series, for which a number of Baker's works have been edited by Dr John Clark

09.00 - 10.00 The Spirituality of Sancta Sophia - Abbot Edmund Power Abbot of St Paul's-outside-the-Walls, Rome

10.10 - 11.10 either The Welsh Context of Augustine Baker - Michael Woodward

     or       Augustine Baker and the History of the English Benedictine Congregation - Barnaby Hughes

10.30 - 10.40 either Did Fr Baker compile the Cambrai nuns's first Constitutions? - Dame Margaret Truran

     or       Mortification in the teaching of Dom Augustine Baker - Dame Teresa Rodrigues

10.40 - 11.00 Mystical Writing as Theologis Mystica - Dr Peter Tyler

11.30 - 12.30 'On Being Loved': the Assurance of Divine Love in the works of Augustine Baker - Bishop Gordon Mursell Bishop of Stafford

14.00 - 15.00 Augustine Baker & the Mystical Canon - Dr Elizabeth Dutton & Victoria Van Hyning Worcester College, Oxford

15.10 - 15.30 Towards a Chronology of Fr Baker's writings - Revd Dr John Clark

15.30 - 15.40 Blosius & Baker - Dr Jan Rhodes

15.40 - 16.00 either Baker's Crtics - Abbot Geoffrey Scott Abbot of Douai

     or       Baker in the 19th century English Benedictine Congregation - Dom Alban Hood

16.30 - 17.30 The intellectual context of Dom Augustine Baker: comparisons and contrasts - Professor John Cottingham, University of Reading

For further information contact abbot@douaiabbey.org.uk

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