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Presents new translations of works by Loyola.
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.
"What is recovered by Professor de Nicolas in his work is the radical flavor of the original sense of the Spiritual Exercises … There is a lifetime of experience with the Spiritual Exercises behind this witty, poetic, and brilliant work." — from the Foreword by Patrick A. Heelan, S.J.
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Neural Connection
Biographical Data
Abbreviations
Part I The Text of Imagining
1. The Native, General Background of Ignatius de Loyola
2. Imagining: Primary Text, Primary Technology
3. A Text for Reading, A Text for Deciding
4. Imagining and the Public Domain
5. Consequences of Hermeneutics
Part II A Plurality of Texts in Translation
Spiritual Exercises
Contents
Translator's Note
Exercises
Spiritual Diary
Contents
Translator's Note to the Spiritual Diary
Translator's Note for Elections on Income or Poverty
Election on Income or Poverty
Diary
Autobiography
Contents
Translator's Note
Preface of Father Nadal
Preface of Father Luis G. da Camara
Text
Letters
Introduction
Translator's Note to Letter on Obedience
Letter on Obedience
Letters
Notes
Bibliography on Hermeneutics
Bibliography on Ignatius
Index