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Excerpt from The Testament of Ignatius Loyola: Being "Sundry Acts of Our Father Ignatius, Under God, the First Founder of the Society of Jesus Taken Down From the Saint's Own Lips by Luis Gonzales" As futile as to endeavour to bank out the tide with a toy-spade, but - whatever weak or ill-taught faith may fear - would be to shut the window in the face of God's light. In theology, in scriptural criticism, in asceticism, in hagiology, in every depart ment of the study of the Christian religion, history must and will have its say, and those who resist its legitimate authority, will deservedly be crushed by it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX. Of all the early Lives of St. Ignatius, the best known is that which was written by Father Ribadeneira at the command of St. Francis Borgia when General of the Society of Jesus. The first draft, which the author afterwards amplified, was completed before 1572, and was printed at Naples in that year. Ribadeneira dedicated the work to his religious brethren of the Society, prefixing a prologue, specially addressed to them, in which, after speaking of his own intimate personal acquaintance with the Saint, he makes reference to the other sources whence he had derived his knowledge, and more especially to that narrative of St. Ignatius himself, which is translated in the present volume. "In the second place," writes Ribadeneira, M we shall set forth those particulars which our Father himself, overcome by the constant solicitations of many years and by the importunity of nearly all our Fathers, disclosed to Father Louis Gonzalez concerning his early life, and that only in the year before he died, after long meditation and prayer to God. "For from the time that our Society was first founded, and the glorious radiance of all those virtues with which God had endowed the soul of His servant Ignatius had begun to burst forth and to shine abroad, all we his children were inspired with an earnest longing to learn everything that we could concerning his history and his manner of life--by what means in sooth God had called him out of the world, with what beginnings, what progress, what consummation He had purified, illuminated, and perfected his soul. For it seemed only meet and reasonable that those who were the stones of this spiritual edifice should know and thoroughly understand on what manner of foundation the...

The Baroque imagination has its roots in Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises (1547), which defined for the Counter-Reformation era the parameters in which Catholic believers must confront the Enemy and the temporal corruption he embodies in order to enter a state of grace and obtain salvation. Through complex interactions of different imaginative functions, Loyola's text is able to superpose a variety of simultaneous narrative levels. In order to reformulate the «greater narrative» (the Magisterium) of the Roman faith beyond what is revealed in Scripture, the Spiritual Exercises require their exercitant to become an active participant in this narrative through constant visual contact with «orders of corruption», that is, spaces in which virtue can be confronted with physical decay and sin. Through these spaces Counter-Reformation Rome (La Roma Ignaziana) would redefine the economy of salvation and diffuse the visual dynamics of the Spiritual Exercises throughout the Catholic world. In their writings, Spanish Golden Age authors Miguel de Cervantes and Baltasar Gracián use the rising modernity of the novel to transform Loyola's notion of «orders of corruption» by adapting it to the secular world. Their encoded criticism of Loyolan imagination contributed to the epistemological crisis that marks the Baroque age, but also prepared the way for the crucial debates that would take place during the Enlightenment (such as the deconstruction of the Catholic «greater narrative» reflected in Loyola). This book concludes with a discussion of the eventual negation of Loyolan imagination in the novels of the Marquis de Sade, which undermine the Roman faith by parodying the Baroque forms of spiritual visual experience and negate the Loyolan projection into «orders of corruption».

This refreshing re-evaluation of the so-called autobiography of Ignatius Loyola (c. 1491-1556) situates Ignatius's Acts against the backgrounds of the spiritual geography of Luke's New Testament writings and the culture of Renaissance humanism. Ignatius Loyola's So-Called Autobiography builds upon recent scholarly consensus, examines the language of the text that Ignatius Loyola dictated as his legacy to fellow Jesuits late in life, and discusses relevant elements of the social, historical, and religious contexts in which the text came to birth. Recent monographs by Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle and John W. O'Malley have characterized Ignatius's Acts as a mirror of vainglory and of apostolic religious life, respectively. In this study, John M. McManamon, S.J., persuasively argues that an appreciation of the two Lukan New Testament writings likewise helps interpret the theological perspectives of Ignatius. The geography of Luke's two writings and the theology that undergirds Luke's redactional innovation assisted Ignatius in remembering and understanding the crucial acts of God in his own life. This eloquent, lucidly written new book is essential reading for anyone interested in Ignatius, the early Jesuits, sixteenth-century religious life, and the history of early modern Europe.

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