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