Dr Edward Howells

Lecturer in Christian Spirituality
Email: e.howells@heythrop.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7795 4217

Courses Taught

MA Courses
Foundational Issues in Christian Spirituality
The History of Christian Mysticism to the Reformation
The Spirituality of John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila

BA Courses
Spirituality in the Abrahamic Faiths

Research Interests

Mystical Theology, esp. John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, Meister Eckhart, Pierre de Bérulle
Medieval Theology
Theological anthropology and epistemology
 
Publications

Books

Editor, with Peter Tyler, Sources of Transformation: Revitalizing Christian Spirituality (London: Continuum, 2010)

John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila: Mystical Knowing and Selfhood (New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 2002)

Articles

‘Relationality and Difference in the Mysticism of Pierre de Bérulle’, Harvard Theological Review 102:2 (2009): 225-243

‘Mysticism and the Mystical: the Current Debate’, The Way Supplement 102 (2001): 15-27

Mystical Experience and the View of the Self in Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross’, Studia Mystica, vol. 18 (1997): 87-104

‘What is ‘mine’ in union with God? The theological anthropology of Meister Eckhart and John of the Cross’, Eckhart Review, no. 7 (1998): 42-54

Book Reviews

Recently for The Way and The Heythrop Journal
 
Current College positions

Convenor of MA in Christian Spirituality
Organiser of Theology Research Seminars

Religious Affiliation: Church of England