Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
The Spiritual Exercises and the Ignatian Mystical Horizon, Hardback Book

The Spiritual Exercises and the Ignatian Mystical Horizon Hardback

Hardback

Out of stock

Description

This book is a revision and condensation of a doctoral dissertation which its author wrote under the direction of the well-known Father Karl Rahner at the University of Munster.

It focuses on the importance of St. Ignatius' small book, the Spiritual Exercises, as a source of theological investigation.

Thus it stems from Rahner's own ""conviction,"" as he states in his foreword, ""that the real theological (and not only the spiritual) significance of Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises . . . presents a non-yet accomplished task to today's theology.""Absorbing, synthesizing, and completing past studies on the Exercises, Father Egan summarizes the finding of modern scholars such as Przwara, Fessard, Karl Rahner, Hugo Rahner, Marxer, Cusson, Gil, Bakker, and Gonzalez de Mendoza--all hitherto relatively unavailable in English--and then presents his own fresh viewpoint.

His quest is for Ignatius' mystical horizon, ""the lived internal unity, . . . the roots of all of Ignatius' experiences, knowledge, and love.""Applying the contemporary methodology in theology to the study of the Ignatian Exercises, the author offers a penetrating and comprehensive treatment of Ignatius' ""consolation without previous cause,"" of the ""Three Times of Election,"" including intellectual and affective discernment, the trinitarian dimensions of the Exercises, and other important Ignatian themes. The book is scholarly and extensively documented and seems to be the most comprehensive and up to date theological commentary in English on the Exercises.

One experienced critic has called it ""one of the greatest contributions to the present commentary on the Exercises.""

Information

Other Formats

Save 7%

£37.00

£34.15

Out of stock
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information