spoke on Teresa of Avila at the "Agricola Seminar" of the University of Groningen. In 2017, McGinn spoke on John of the Cross for the Annual Candlemas Lecture at Boston College. Recognition Fellow of the Medieval Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship Lily Foundation Senior Research Fellowship (1993) Research fellowships for work at the Institute for Advanced Study at Hebrew University of Jerusalem Research fellowship at the Institute for Ecumenical and Culture Research at St. John's University Mellon Foundation Emeritus Grant Reviews Writing in The Christian Century, Lawrence S. Cunningham said, In terms of sheer scholarship, this series [the Presence of God] is the most important contribution to the field of theology in the past quarter century. McGinn takes readers from the biblical materials through the Western tradition to detect the ways in which classical spiritual texts give evidence of the experience of the presence of God. With four volumes in print and a fifth to come, McGinn's magisterial work is stunning in its sophisticated methodology and its close reading of texts. Both historical in approach and profoundly theological in presupposition, these volumes constitute a classic work that will not soon be overtaken. Mary Frohlich, of the Catholic Theological Union said of The Flowering of Mysticism: Men and Women in the New Mysticism--1200-1350, "The third volume of Bernard McGinn's history of western Christian mysticism is, as usual for McGinn's work, stellar. Drawing on his exhaustive knowledge of history and theology, McGinn provides a magisterial interpretation of the context and trends of the "new mysticism" that began to appear in the thirteenth century... Anyone in need of a concise but encyclopedic review of studies on aspects of mysticism during this period will do well to make this the first stop." She also noted, "...that this is most likely not the book to use as a course text in undergraduate or adult education settings. Its level of analysis and scholarship make it ideal for graduate courses, or as a recommended reference work for students researching specific figures or movements." A review of The Varieties of Vernacular Mysticism: 1350–1550 in Religion and Theology said, "Bernard McGinn's monumental series on the history of Western Christian mysticism continues, here reaching its fifth highly impressive volume...As in the previous volumes, the analysis is always lucid and extensive, a testament to McGinn's