Outline John of the Cross’ major paradigm for the spiritual journey, providing some significant detail around the blockages in each dark night and how these veils are stripped.

1. How is eros the basis of the spiritual life? 5%
2. What is mysticism? 5%
3. Outline John of the Cross’ major paradigm for the spiritual journey, providing some significant detail around the blockages in each dark night and how these veils are stripped. 20%
4. What is the “privative” harm and what is the “positive” harm that comes to us from “inordinate affectivity”? 5%
5. From Chapters 11-13 in the Ascent, Book I, outline John’s method for entry into the Dark Night of the Senses. 5%
6. What does John mean by the line: “I went out unseen”? 5%
7. The “passive night of the senses” helps purify us from the “imperfections of beginners”. What are those imperfections? 5%
8. What are John’s criteria to tell a religious crisis (a “dark night of the soul”) from an emotional crisis or from moral laxity? Gives some elaboration on each criterion. 10%
9. What are the major characteristics of someone in the state of “proficiency”? 5%
10. For John, why can faith be called a “darkness”? 5%
11. For John, how does one enter the “dark night of the spirit”? 5%
12. What does the “dark night of the spirit” purify within us? 5%
13. Outline some of John’s principles in regards to extraordinary religious experience? 5%
14. Outline the six stages of love, prayer, and service, as outlined by John of the Cross. 10%
15. What do you judge to be the most important new insight you gained from John? 5%

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