Philip Endean
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198270287
- eISBN:
- 9780191683961
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198270287.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Karl Rahner SJ, (1904–84), perhaps the most influential figure in 20th-century Roman Catholic theology, believed that the most significant influence on his work was Ignatius Loyola's Spiritual ...
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Karl Rahner SJ, (1904–84), perhaps the most influential figure in 20th-century Roman Catholic theology, believed that the most significant influence on his work was Ignatius Loyola's Spiritual Exercises. This book casts significant new light on Rahner's achievement by presenting it against the background of the rediscovery of Ignatian spirituality in the middle decades of the 20th century. It offers a fresh and contemporary theological interpretation of Ignatian retreat-giving, illuminating the creative new departures this ministry has taken in the last thirty years, as well as contributing to the lively current debate regarding the relationship between spirituality and speculative theology.Less
Karl Rahner SJ, (1904–84), perhaps the most influential figure in 20th-century Roman Catholic theology, believed that the most significant influence on his work was Ignatius Loyola's Spiritual Exercises. This book casts significant new light on Rahner's achievement by presenting it against the background of the rediscovery of Ignatian spirituality in the middle decades of the 20th century. It offers a fresh and contemporary theological interpretation of Ignatian retreat-giving, illuminating the creative new departures this ministry has taken in the last thirty years, as well as contributing to the lively current debate regarding the relationship between spirituality and speculative theology.
Christian M. Rutishauser, S.J.
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823228119
- eISBN:
- 9780823236985
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823228119.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter provides background on the life and religious activities of Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik, the spiritual mentor of so-called modern Jewish Orthodoxy in the United States. Soloveitchik's ...
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This chapter provides background on the life and religious activities of Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik, the spiritual mentor of so-called modern Jewish Orthodoxy in the United States. Soloveitchik's biography reflects the intellectual history of the twentieth century and its struggle with religion, which had to find a new standpoint in a secular world. Three cities influenced his religious exercise. These cities are Brisk in Lithuania where he was born in 1930; Berlin, Germany where he studied during the 1920s; and Boston, Massachusetts where he died in 1993. This chapter also discusses the similarity of religious practice with Ignatian spirituality.Less
This chapter provides background on the life and religious activities of Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik, the spiritual mentor of so-called modern Jewish Orthodoxy in the United States. Soloveitchik's biography reflects the intellectual history of the twentieth century and its struggle with religion, which had to find a new standpoint in a secular world. Three cities influenced his religious exercise. These cities are Brisk in Lithuania where he was born in 1930; Berlin, Germany where he studied during the 1920s; and Boston, Massachusetts where he died in 1993. This chapter also discusses the similarity of religious practice with Ignatian spirituality.
Peter McDonough and Eugene C. Bianchi
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520230552
- eISBN:
- 9780520930773
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520230552.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
The air of psychological penetration and fugitive stillness is often astonishing. In place of a reclusive style of spirituality, the kinetic Jesuits took up the humanist ideal of engagement in the ...
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The air of psychological penetration and fugitive stillness is often astonishing. In place of a reclusive style of spirituality, the kinetic Jesuits took up the humanist ideal of engagement in the world. Celebrated for their educational accomplishments, missionary exploits, and organizational inventiveness, the Jesuits became a model for many of the activist congregations founded after them. The dual feature of Jesuit spirituality—the combination of cura personalis and adaptability—suited the emerging individualistic culture of Renaissance Europe. Beneath the shifts—from visions of a tyrannical deity to the embrace of a compassionate savior, from cerebral appreciation of doctrine to more affective spiritualities, from acceptance of a prescribed tradition to the reconnoitering of alternative religious lineages—is an expanding respect for personal journeys, latent in Ignatian spirituality, which stretches and crashes up against the boundaries of Catholicism.Less
The air of psychological penetration and fugitive stillness is often astonishing. In place of a reclusive style of spirituality, the kinetic Jesuits took up the humanist ideal of engagement in the world. Celebrated for their educational accomplishments, missionary exploits, and organizational inventiveness, the Jesuits became a model for many of the activist congregations founded after them. The dual feature of Jesuit spirituality—the combination of cura personalis and adaptability—suited the emerging individualistic culture of Renaissance Europe. Beneath the shifts—from visions of a tyrannical deity to the embrace of a compassionate savior, from cerebral appreciation of doctrine to more affective spiritualities, from acceptance of a prescribed tradition to the reconnoitering of alternative religious lineages—is an expanding respect for personal journeys, latent in Ignatian spirituality, which stretches and crashes up against the boundaries of Catholicism.
Catharine Randall
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823232628
- eISBN:
- 9780823240449
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823232628.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
The Jesuit Relations, written by new world Jesuit missionaries from 1632 to 1673 back to their Superior in France, have long been a remarkable source of both historical knowledge and spiritual ...
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The Jesuit Relations, written by new world Jesuit missionaries from 1632 to 1673 back to their Superior in France, have long been a remarkable source of both historical knowledge and spiritual inspiration. They provide rich information about Jesuit piety and missionary initiatives, Ignatian spirituality, the Old World patrons who financed the venture, women's role as collaborators in the Jesuit project, and the early history of contact between Europeans and Native Americans in what was to become the northeastern United States and Canada. The Jesuits approached the task of converting the native peoples, and the formidable obstacles it implied, in a flexible manner. One of their central values was inculturation, the idea of coming in by their door, to quote a favorite saying of Ignatius, via a creative process of syncretism that blended aspects of native belief with aspects of Christian faith, in order to facilitate understanding and acceptance. The Relations thus abound with examples of the Jesuits' thoughtfully trying to make sense of native- and female-difference, rather than eliding it. The complete text of the Jesuit Relations runs to 73 volumes. This book makes selections from the Relations, some of which have never before appeared in print in English. These selections are chosen for their informative nature and for how they illustrate central tenets of Ignatian spirituality. Rather than provide close translations from 17th-century French that might sound stilted to modern ears, this book offers free translations that provide the substance of the Relations in an idiom immediately accessible to 21st-century readers of English. An introduction sets out the basic history of the Jesuit missions in New France and provides insight into the Ignatian tradition and how it informs the composition of the Relations. The volume is illustrated with early woodcuts, depicting scenes from Ignatius's life, moments in the history of the Jesuit missions, Jesuit efforts to master the native languages, and general devotional scenes.Less
The Jesuit Relations, written by new world Jesuit missionaries from 1632 to 1673 back to their Superior in France, have long been a remarkable source of both historical knowledge and spiritual inspiration. They provide rich information about Jesuit piety and missionary initiatives, Ignatian spirituality, the Old World patrons who financed the venture, women's role as collaborators in the Jesuit project, and the early history of contact between Europeans and Native Americans in what was to become the northeastern United States and Canada. The Jesuits approached the task of converting the native peoples, and the formidable obstacles it implied, in a flexible manner. One of their central values was inculturation, the idea of coming in by their door, to quote a favorite saying of Ignatius, via a creative process of syncretism that blended aspects of native belief with aspects of Christian faith, in order to facilitate understanding and acceptance. The Relations thus abound with examples of the Jesuits' thoughtfully trying to make sense of native- and female-difference, rather than eliding it. The complete text of the Jesuit Relations runs to 73 volumes. This book makes selections from the Relations, some of which have never before appeared in print in English. These selections are chosen for their informative nature and for how they illustrate central tenets of Ignatian spirituality. Rather than provide close translations from 17th-century French that might sound stilted to modern ears, this book offers free translations that provide the substance of the Relations in an idiom immediately accessible to 21st-century readers of English. An introduction sets out the basic history of the Jesuit missions in New France and provides insight into the Ignatian tradition and how it informs the composition of the Relations. The volume is illustrated with early woodcuts, depicting scenes from Ignatius's life, moments in the history of the Jesuit missions, Jesuit efforts to master the native languages, and general devotional scenes.
Albertus Budi Susanto
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780823267309
- eISBN:
- 9780823272334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823267309.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Kethoprak—a popular form of the performing arts in Indonesia—is both subversive and satirical. It looks to the social, political, and religious elites and holds up, before them, a funhouse mirror of ...
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Kethoprak—a popular form of the performing arts in Indonesia—is both subversive and satirical. It looks to the social, political, and religious elites and holds up, before them, a funhouse mirror of post-modern distortion that, not without irony, often exposes their shortcomings and failures to the wider public. More than this, however, kethoprak is about an interior orientation, about a way of subjectively perceiving and processing the external world. It is about the methodological practice of attuning oneself, and one’s audience, to seeing things differently. In this way, kethoprak becomes a popular form of participatory democracy. It also shares many characteristic elements with Ignatian Spirituality via Roland Barthes interpretation of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Susanto identifies in both kethoprak and Ignatian Spirituality a process whereby one learns to see more clearly and to attend to one’s surroundings more critically. As a result, both kethoprak and Ignatian Spirituality tap into the internal movements, and the external experiences, of not only the performers and audiences at a show, but of all Indonesians whose lives take place outside the elite circles of power.Less
Kethoprak—a popular form of the performing arts in Indonesia—is both subversive and satirical. It looks to the social, political, and religious elites and holds up, before them, a funhouse mirror of post-modern distortion that, not without irony, often exposes their shortcomings and failures to the wider public. More than this, however, kethoprak is about an interior orientation, about a way of subjectively perceiving and processing the external world. It is about the methodological practice of attuning oneself, and one’s audience, to seeing things differently. In this way, kethoprak becomes a popular form of participatory democracy. It also shares many characteristic elements with Ignatian Spirituality via Roland Barthes interpretation of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Susanto identifies in both kethoprak and Ignatian Spirituality a process whereby one learns to see more clearly and to attend to one’s surroundings more critically. As a result, both kethoprak and Ignatian Spirituality tap into the internal movements, and the external experiences, of not only the performers and audiences at a show, but of all Indonesians whose lives take place outside the elite circles of power.
