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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

@sarumcollege.bsky.social 's new series on 'Modern Mystics' begins next month. Three fantastic speakers on three fascinating 20th-century writers. Sign up with the QR codes below or here: www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course...

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The Sarum College research seminar starts this upcoming Wednesday. Accessible in person in Salisbury or via Zoom. Message me for more info.

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Delighted to be giving a talk on Clare of Assisi and Angela of Foligno at St Paul's Cathedral in London on Sunday 3rd May. The event is in person and tickets are free with the option to give a donation, and are available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/st-francis...

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

One week until our next series of webinars begins. Hosted by @churchtimes.bsky.social and @sarumcollege.bsky.social, we look at five English mystics from the 14th-20th centuries, and each webinar is led by an expert on the figure/text. Tickets still on sale here: www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course...

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Why is the Song of Songs part of the Hebrew Bible? How has it impacted its readers throughout history? And how might it be read and used today? Join us from 18th to 21st May at @sarumcollege.bsky.social to explore with a fantastic team of speakers. Booking here: www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course... /1

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

How did Christian spirituality come to flourish in the Middle Ages, and how can we access the lives and experiences of people as they practised their faith in that period? Join us at @sarumcollege.bsky.social from 20th-23rd April to explore these questions with a fantastic team of lecturers. /1

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Thanks, Scott. You might be interested in our webinar series on five English mystics next Spring. Julian was included in a similar series we did last Spring so we didn't include her in this one buy she'll be mentioned in a few.

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Very pleased to have had published -- in time for Christmas! -- my article on "Mariology, Mysticism and the Manger: the Christmas Crib in Bonaventure’s Theology" in the journal Archivum Franciscanum Historicum. /1

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Delighted to announce our Spring 2026 webinar series, hosted jointly by @sarumcollege.bsky.social and the @churchtimes.bsky.social will focus on the English mystics. /1

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Next Thursday at Sarum College, we are hosting a postgraduate seminar on the theme of "Spirituality and Human Flourishing." Alongside a keynote paper from James Woodward (@woodwardjames.bsky.social) we have three great student papers.

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The talk will be translated live into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Hindi, Tamil, and Italian, and the posters and information in those languages (including the respective time zones) are copied below.

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Next Saturday at 12 noon UK time, I'll be giving the 2025 Franciscan Global Vision Summit lecture online on "The Deification of the Fraternity and Sorority of All Creation: Insights from Bonaventure and Angela of Foligno." Sign up here (forms.gle/9hGCN1puVUQW...) or via the QR code in the poster.

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Had a lovely afternoon in Durham as this week's speaker at the Catholic Theology Research Seminar at the Department of Theology and Religion.

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Does Christian spirituality encourage (or allow for) human flourishing, health, and wellbeing? How do we measure 'health' and 'wellbeing'? Explore these and other questions in our MA module (open to external attendees) on "Spirituality, Health and Wellbeing" in four weeks' time at Sarum College. /1

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

On 4th November I'm hosting a webinar, 1-4 PM (UK time) on "Writing Julian of Norwich in the 21st Century." The webinar will feature Hannah Lucas (writer of Impossible Recovery: Julian of Norwich and the Phenomenology of Wellbeing) and Claire Gilbert (author of I, Julian). /1

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

CFP for our postgrad seminar on "Spirituality and Human Flourishing" in November at Sarum College and online. It is a great space for students to present their first (or one of their first) academic papers. Proposals to mhahn@sarum.ac.uk by the end of October.

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Honoured to be giving a talk for the Franciscan Vision Global Summit on Saturday 22nd November on "The Deification of the Fraternity and Sorority of Creation". The event is free and online but requires registering beforehand via this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The module is taught at MA level but is our introductory module, so is suitable both for those with and without previous theological training. Attendees can stay in Sarum College within the beautiful Cathedral Close. Booking and more infor here: sarum.ac.uk/short-course... /8 (end) #spirituality

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Gillian Ahlgren will bring our course to a close by looking at Julian of Norwich as an example of spirituality and the imitation of Christ at the end of the Middle Ages, before looking at spirituality in the Reformations, focusing particularly on Teresa of Avila. /7 #julianofnorwich #teresaofavila

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Tom O’Loughlin will run two sessions on Celtic spiritualities. The first looks at the concepts of sin and penitence in Celtic contexts. The second takes the Stowe Missal as an example of the influence of liturgical spirituality. /6 #celtic #celticspirituality

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Julia Konstantiovsky will teach two sessions. The first looks at Evagrius Ponticus and pseudo-Dionysius and the early mystical traditions within a Patristic context. The second introduces Eastern Orthodox spirituality by focusing on Gregory Palamas. /5 #dionysius #patristics #apophaticism

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Jayme Reaves will introduce how the term “spirituality” was used in various Biblical contexts, and also how key biblical texts present important issues that become foundational for Christian spirituality such as the unknowability of God and images such as God as "mother hen". /4 #biblicalstudies

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

... and then at scholastic theologians and women mystics, and their shared approaches to Christian spirituality and to the divine-human relationship /3 #mystics #mysticism

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I will give introductory sessions on what “Christian spirituality” is and how (and why) we study it historically. I then teach two sessions on medieval spirituality in the West, looking at Benedict’s rule and monastic spirituality, ... /2 #Benedictines #monasticspirituality

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Want to know more about the history and development of Christian spirituality? From 13-16 October we have a brilliant 4-day course at Sarum College (@sarumcollege.bsky.social) in Salisbury with a stellar team of lecturers. The course is open to external attendees. More info and booking below. /1

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Happy Feast Day of St Clare of Assisi (d. 1253). Although often remembered by the title she gave herself "la pianticella" ("the little plant") of St Francis of Assisi, Clare is far more than just Francis's understudy. /1

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Very pleased to have this week submitted the manuscript of "A Companion to Angela of Foligno" to Brill. I sincerely hope that the book will help to bring the scholarship on Angela in English up to date. The book contains 10 chapters, a preface and an afterword /1 (of 2)

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

In Advent, I will lead a webinar from 10 AM to 1 PM on 10th December on Franciscan perspectives on the Nativity, focusing on Francis’s recreation of the Christmas crib and later theologians from the tradition. Booking here: sarum.ac.uk/short-courses/… 6/6

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

On 4th November from 1-4 PM (UK time), two great writers on Julian of Norwich, Hannah Lucas and Claire Gilbert, will run an online course in conversation on how we can draw from Julian’s insights for today. Booking here: sarum.ac.uk/short-courses/… 5/6

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Edith Stein (with Peter Tyler), Dag Hammarskjöld (with Roger Lipsey) and Dorothee Sölle (with Sue Yore). Booking here: sarum.ac.uk/short-courses/… 4/6

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

On 23rd July I will lead a day course (10-4, UK time) available via Zoom and in person (Salisbury) on Franciscan female theologians -- Clare of Assisi (d. 1253), Angela of Foligno (d. 1309) and Camilla Battista da Varano (d. 1524). Booking here: sarum.ac.uk/short-courses/… 2/6

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

At Sarum College, we have one final spirituality short course (hybrid – on Franciscan women) of this academic year, and then three great short courses on mysticism (all online) in the autumn. More info and booking below. 1/6

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Wonderful time in Antwerp (and Brussels) for the Mystical Theology Network's annual conference hosted by the Ruusbroec Institute. As always, great to see old and new faces. Now in Nijmegen for a colloquium on Spirituality as Process at the Titus Brandsma Institute.

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Returning to Evelyn Underhill and Lucy Menzies ahead of a talk next week. One delightful thing is that they both dedicated books to each other -- Menzies in her 1928 "Mirrors of the Holy" and Underhill in her 1932 "The Golden Sequence."

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

created a new and much more accurate picture of Angela and her theology, and my favourite passage from Menzies (the final image here) celebrates what these new editions contribute, with Menzies' book published in 1928.

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Menzies was a major (but unsung) contributor to the revival of interest in mysticism on both a popular and academic level in the early 20th century. She was a friend and collaborator of Evelyn Underhill who is much more well known, and to whom this book is dedicated. /2

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Delighted to receive today from eBay a wonderful copy of Lucy Menzies' "Mirrors of the Holy" a study of ten female mystical theologians from the 12th century Hildegard of Bingen to the late-19th and early-20th century Elizabeth Leseur. /1

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Michael Hahn @mshahn.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A reminder that you have one week left to submit your proposal for the Mystical Theology Network's annual conference, this year held in Antwerp from 4th to 6th June. The theme is 'Mystical Entanglements: Communities, Networks, and the (Relational) Self in the History and Study of Mysticism.'

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