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The Ignatian Tradition THE IGNATIAN TRADITION Spirituality in History Series The Ignatian Tradition Kevin F. Burke, s.j. Eileen Burke-Sullivan Phyllis Zagano, Series Editor LITURGICAL PRESS Collegeville, Minnesota www.litpress.org Cover design by Ann Blattner. Saint Ignatius Writing the Constitutions by Jusepe de Ribera (1565–1652). Used with permission from The Institute of Jesuit Sources, Saint Louis, Missouri. Scripture texts in this work are taken from the New American Bible with Revised New Testament and Revised Psalms © 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, DC, and are used by permission of the copyright owner. All Rights Reserved. No part of the New American Bible may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner. © 2009 by Order of Saint Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, microfilm, mi- crofiche, mechanical recording, photocopying, translation, or by any other means, known or yet unknown, for any purpose except brief quotations in reviews, without the previous written permission of Liturgical Press, Saint John’s Abbey, PO Box 7500, Collegeville, Minnesota 56321-7500. Printed in the United States of America. 123456789 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Ignatian tradition / Kevin F. Burke, Eileen Burke-Sullivan, Phyllis Zagano, editors. p. cm.—(Spirituality in history series) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-8146-1913-1 1. Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491–1556. Exercitia spiritualia. 2. Spirituality— Catholic Church. 3. Catholic Church—Doctrines. 4. Spiritual exercises. I. Burke, Kevin F. II. Burke-Sullivan, Eileen. III. Zagano, Phyllis. BX2179.L8I495 2009 271'.53—dc22 2009021208 In memory of Fr. James M. Burke, S.J. (1921–1995) Contents Acknowledgments ix Preface xv Introduction xvii The Ignatian Tradition xxi I. Foundations 1 Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) 3 Mary Ward (1585–1645) 16 II. Contemplation in Action 25 Jerome Nadal (1507–1580) 26 Pierre Favre (1506–1546) 33 III. Mission 43 Francis Xavier (1506–1552) 44 Roberto de Nobili (1577–1656) 48 Antonio Ruiz de Montoya (1585–1652) 53 IV. Citizenship and Prophecy 61 Edmund Campion (1540–1581) 62 Alfred Delp (1907–1945) 67 Ignacio Ellacuría (1930–1989) 74 V. Scholarship 81 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955) 82 Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984) 88 Karl Rahner (1904–1984) 93 vii viii The Ignatian Tradition VI. Imagination 99 Daniel Seghers (1590–1661) 100 Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) 104 William F. Lynch (1908–1987) 111 VII. Renewal 121 Pedro Arrupe (1907–1991) 123 George Ganss (1905–2000) 129 Josée Gsell (1925–1999) and the Christian Life Communities 134 General Congregations 32 and 34 (1975, 1995) 140 Afterword 149 Notes 154 Acknowledgments Excerpts from A Pilgrim’s Journey: The Autobiography of Ignatius of Loyola. Trans- lated by Joseph N. Tylenda. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1985. Copyright Ignatius Press, San Francisco, CA. Reprinted with permission. Excerpts from The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius: A Translation and Commen- tary. Translated by George E. Ganss. St. Louis, MO: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1992. Used with permission: © The Institute of Jesuit Sources, St. Louis, MO. All rights reserved. Excerpts from The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus. Translated by George E. Ganss. St. Louis, MO: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1970. Used with permission: © The Institute of Jesuit Sources, St. Louis, MO. All rights reserved. Excerpts from Till God Will: Mary Ward Through Her Writings. Edited by M. Em- manuel Orchard. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1985. Reprinted with permission. Excerpt from Instructions on Prayer. Unpublished manuscript from MHSI. Trans- lated by Martin O’Keefe. Vol. 4. St. Louis, MO: The Institute of Jesuit Sources. Used with permission: © The Institute of Jesuit Sources, St. Louis, MO. All rights reserved. Excerpt from Joseph Conwell, Walking in the Spirit. St. Louis, MO: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2003. Used with permission: © The Institute of Jesuit Sources, St. Louis, MO. All rights reserved. Excerpt from Thomas Clancy, The Conversational Word of God. St. Louis, MO: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1978. Used with permission: © The Institute of Jesuit Sources, St. Louis, MO. All rights reserved. Excerpts from Joseph DeGuibert, The Jesuits: Their Spiritual Doctrine and Practice. Edited by George Ganss. Translated by William Young. St. Louis, MO: The ix x The Ignatian Tradition Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1964. Used with permission: © The Institute of Jesuit Sources, St. Louis, MO. All rights reserved. Excerpts from The Spiritual Writings of Pierre Favre. Edited by Martin Palmer. Introduction by Edward Murphy and John Padberg. Memoriale translated by Edward Murphy. Letters translated by Martin Palmer. St. Louis, MO: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1996. Used with permission: © The Institute of Jesuit Sources, St. Louis, MO. All rights reserved. Excerpts from The Letters and Instructions of Francis Xavier. Introduction and translation by M. Joseph Costelloe. St. Louis, MO: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1992. Used with permission: © The Institute of Jesuit Sources, St. Louis, MO. All rights reserved. Excerpts from Preaching Wisdom to the Wise: Three Treatises by Roberto de Nobili, S.J., Missionary and Scholar in 17th-Century India. Introduction and translation by Anand Amaladass and Francis X. Clooney. St. Louis, MO: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2000. Used with permission: © The Institute of Jesuit Sources, St. Louis, MO. All rights reserved. Excerpts from Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, The Spiritual Conquest. Introduction and translation by John P. Leonard and Martin E. Palmer. St. Louis, MO: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1993. Used with permission: © The Institute of Jesuit Sources, St. Louis, MO. All rights reserved. Excerpts from Alfred Delp, S.J.: Prison Writings. Introduction by Thomas Merton. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004. Reprinted with permission. Excerpt from Escritos Teológicos, Vol. I, by Ignacio Ellacuría. Translated into En- glish by Kevin F. Burke. San Salvador: UCA Editores, 2000–2002. Reprinted with permission. Excerpts from Escritos Teológicos, Vol II, by Ignacio Ellacuría. Translated into En- glish by Kevin F. Burke. San Salvador: UCA Editores, 2000–2002. Reprinted with permission. Excerpt from Ignacio Ellacuría, Freedom Made Flesh: The Mission of Christ Through His Church. Translated by John Drury. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1976. Re- printed with permission. Excerpts from Ignacio Ellacuría and Jon Sobrino, eds., Mysterium Liberationis: Fundamental Concepts of Liberation Theory. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1994. Reprinted with permission. Excerpts from The Divine Milieu by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Copyright 1957 by Editions de Seuil, Paris. English translation copyright 1960 by Wm. Collins Sons & Co., London, and Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., New York. Renewed Acknowledgments xi 1988 by Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. Reprinted by permission of HarperCol- lins Publishers. Excerpts from The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Translated by Bernard Wall. Introduction by Julian Huxley. Copyright 1955 by Editions de Seuil. Translation and Introduction copyright 1959 by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. and Harper & Brothers; copyright renewed 1987 by Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Excerpt from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Toward the Future. Translated by René Hague. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Reprinted with permission. Excerpt from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Hymn of the Universe. New York: Harper & Row Publishers Inc., 1965. Reprinted with permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. Excerpt from The Making of a Mind: Letters from a Soldier-Priest, 1914–1919 by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Copyright ©1961 by Editions Bernard Grasset. En- glish translation Copyright © 1965 by William Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., London, and Harper & Row, Inc., New York, p. 57. Reprinted with permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., for Editions Bernard Grasset. Excerpts from Insight: A Study of Human Understanding by Bernard Lonergan. Fifth Edition. Toronto, CN: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Reprinted with permission. Excerpts from A Second Collection by Bernard Lonergan. Edited by William F. J. Ryan and Bernard J. Tyrrell. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1974 (reprinted with permission for USA); Toronto, CN: University of Toronto Press, 1993 (re- printed with permission for Canada). Excerpt from “Ignatius of Loyola Speaks to a Jesuit Today,” by Karl Rahner. Unpublished translation by J. Matthew Ashley. The German is found in Schriften zur Theologie XV, Wissenschaft und christlicher Glaube. Zürich: Benziger, 1984. Reprinted with permission. Photo reproductions of the Daniel Seghers, s.j., painting Madonna and Child with Garlands (seventeenth century; oil on canvas) used with permission: © The Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. All rights reserved. Excerpt from Images of Faith: An Exploration of the Ironic Imagination by William F. Lynch. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1973. Reprinted with permission. Excerpts from Images of Hope: Imagination as Healer of the Hopeless by William F. Lynch. Baltimore, MD: Helicon Press, Inc., 1965. © New York Province of the Society of Jesus. Reprinted with permission. xii The Ignatian Tradition Excerpts from Christ and Prometheus: A New Image of the Secular by William F. Lynch. Notre Dame, IN: University
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