The Dynamism of Desire: Bernard J. F. Lonergan, S. J. on The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. By James L. Connor

2009 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 536-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael McGuckian
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Exercises ◽  
Saint Ignatius Of Loyola ◽  
Ignatius Of Loyola

Desiring and Being Desired by Christ: Sebastian Moore’s Notion of Desire in Dialogue with Ignatian Spirituality

2018 ◽  
Vol 136 (3) ◽  
pp. 148-164
Author(s):  
Teresa Messias
Keyword(s):  
Human Person ◽  
The Self ◽  
Spiritual Exercises ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Saint Ignatius Of Loyola ◽  
Ignatian Spirituality ◽  
Second Moment ◽  
Ignatius Of Loyola ◽  
Human Desire

This article explores the Christian theological work of Sebastian Moore O.S.B. and his notion of human desire as the existential point of impact or subjective dynamics where a human being may discover a call to communion in Love, a presence of the Creating God himself as hidden source of joy and fulfilment, attracting a person to his or her ultimate meaning. Human desire is, in its deepest reality, the emergent presence of the Self as gift. This gift is attracted, oriented, healed and liberated by the presence of Jesus and the discipleship that he awakes in every one of those to whom he revels himself as the Loving other. Desire is, therefore, considered an ontological and theological via to access and undergo the transformative three-phased process of union to God or divinization, following Jesus’ destiny: an awakening, an emptying and a fulfilling of desire. A conscious and consented transformative union ( théosis) may occur, in desire, between God and a human person. Moore’s Christian spiritual itinerary of transformation of human desire is, in a second moment, paralleled with the experience of prayer and transformation that are the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. We draw attention to the fact that the Christian spiritual itinerary exposed in Moore’s theology of desire is strikingly interlocked with the structure and key theological moments of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises.

scholarly journals The Bhagavad Gita and the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

2021 ◽  
Vol 96 (377) ◽  
pp. 365-399
Author(s):  
Deepak Tirkey
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Exercises ◽  
Bhagavad Gita ◽  
Saint Ignatius Of Loyola ◽  
Authentic Happiness ◽  
Conscious Effort ◽  
The World ◽  
Ignatius Of Loyola ◽  
Vision Of God ◽  
Bhagavad Gītā ◽  
Heart And Mind

The Bhagavad Gita like the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola leading to spiritual enrichment points out of a meeting of heart and mind between two texts. The essence of the spirituality of the Bhagavad Gita, like the spirituality of Ignatius is the vision of God. Its spirituality is oriented towards God above the world as well as within it. Both texts offer a parallel insight for deep and authentic happiness building up a life towards God and in God. Even though the Bhagavad Gita and the Spiritual Exercises play different qualitative rolls in its own traditions, both agree that only those who have God above the visible world are able to experience God vice-versa. The quest to have God experience is an exercise involving conscious effort and constant attentiveness.

Personal Discernment and Dialogue. Learning from ‘the Other’

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Michael Barnes SJ
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Spiritual Exercises ◽  
The South ◽  
Ignatian Spirituality ◽  
Michel De Certeau ◽  
Personal Interactions ◽  
Ignatius Of Loyola

This article considers the theme of discernment in the tradition of Ignatian spirituality emanating from the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), the founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). After a brief introduction which addresses the central problematic of bad influences that manifest themselves as good, the article turns to the life and work of two Jesuits, the 16th C English missionary to India, Thomas Stephens and the 20th C French historian and cultural critic, Michel de Certeau. Both kept up a constant dialogue with local culture in which they sought authenticity in their response to ‘events’, whether a hideous massacre which shaped the pastoral commitment and writing of Stephens in the south of the Portuguese enclave of Goa or the 1968 student-led protests in Paris that so much affected the thinking of de Certeau. Very different in terms of personal background and contemporary experience, they both share in a tradition of discernment as a virtuous response to what both would understand as the ‘wisdom of the Spirit’ revealed in their personal interactions with ‘the other’.

Jesuit Theater and Drama

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin J. Wetmore
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Spiritual Exercises ◽  
Audience Member ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Educational Theater ◽  
Ignatius Of Loyola ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Didactic Theater

The historic Jesuit theater represents two centuries of didactic theater in which the Society of Jesus, following both the organizational instructions andSpiritual Exercisesof founder Ignatius of Loyola, used theater to inculcate virtue in both performer and audience member while teaching Latin, dance, poise, rhetoric, oratory, and confidence to the students who performed. Jesuit spirituality is inherently theatrical, and conversely Jesuit theater was intended to also be highly spiritual. The dramaturgy and scenography was spectacular and designed to draw audiences who would delight in them and learn the moral lessons the Jesuits hoped to teach while simultaneously drawing them away from a corrupt public theater. This essay considers Jesuit drama and theater in four key aspects: (1) Jesuit spirituality and performative practice; (2) the historic Jesuit educational theater of early modern Europe; (3) Jesuit drama in the missions outside of Europe; and (4) contemporary Jesuits involved in theater.

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