Powers of Imagining: Ignatius de Loyola: A Philosophical Hermeneutic of Imagining through the Collected Works of Ignatius de Loyola

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State University of New York Press, 1986 M06 30 - 416 pages
This book presents a new translation of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius de Loyola, of his Spiritual Diary, of his Autobiography, and some of his letters. These translations are introduced by a hermeneutical commentary laying out the theory and practices of the decision-making power of imagining.

Ignatius proposed in his Spiritual Exercises a form of decision-oriented mysticism, and through their use, gathered around him a group of associates who became the first members of the Jesuit Order. Under the control of later, doctrinally oriented theologians, the practical, decision-oriented mystical character of the original Exercises was gradually replaced by a more theoretical and devotional character.

Antonio T. de Nicolas recovers in his translations and through his critical apparatus the original decision-oriented thrust of Ignatius.
 

Contents

The Native General Background of Ignatius de Loyola
3
Primary Text Primary Technology
31
A Text for Reading A Text for Deciding
47
Imagining and the Public Domain
61
A Plurality of Texts in Translation
95
Translators Note
101
PRESUPPOSITION
110
The First Second and Third Sin
116
Third Oblation
195
Transparent Clarity
201
God Wishes for Mass to Continue Offering His Election
207
Confirmation of this New Attitude with Many Thanks
213
Autobiography
239
Introduction
301
Letters
311
NOTES
353

Four Observations on Penance
122
Second Day
128
Spiritual Diary
175
Election and Offering
189
BIBLIOGRAPHY ON HERMENEUTICS
374
INDEX
388
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Antonio T. de Nicolas is the author of Avatara: The Humanization of Philosophy Through the Bhagavad Gita; Meditations through the Ṛg Veda: The Four Dimensional Man; and Platero and I, Juan Ramon Jimenez (translation). Dr. de Nicolas is Professor of Philosophy at State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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