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Instruments of the divinity : providence and praxis in the foundation of the Society of Jesus / by Christopher van Ginhoven Rey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rey, Christopher van Ginhoven.
- Series:
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 226.
- Brill's studies in intellectual history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Providence and government of God--Christianity.
- Providence and government of God.
- Jesuits.
- Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556. Exercitia spiritualia.
- Ignatius.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : BRILL, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Instruments of the Divinity , Christopher van Ginhoven Rey shows that an important reflection on God’s providential praxis animates the foundational documents of the Society of Jesus. Focusing on Saint Ignatius of Loyola’s conception of Jesuits as the instruments of a laboring God, the book explores the philosophical and theological roots of the metaphor of the instrument and its place in the social imaginary of the Jesuit order. Close readings of the Spiritual Exercises, the Jesuit Constitutions, and a selection of letters by Ignatius call attention to the existence of a rhetoric of instrumentality that provides the basis for the Society’s project of instruction, its loving affirmation of the world, and its attempts to differentiate itself from its monastic predecessors.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- 1. The Suspect Zone of Mysticism
- 2. From the Image to the Spiritual Passions
- 3. The Use of Things
- 4. Ad modum laborantis
- 5. Providence
- 6. The Jesuit Instrument
- 7. Sacramental Instrumentality
- 8. Instruction
- 9. World
- 10. The Ascetic Drive
- 11. The Rara Avis of Discernment
- 12. A Hermeneutic Instrumentality
- 13. A Community of Instruments?
- Postscript
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 90-04-26005-6
- OCLC:
- 862372751
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004260054 DOI
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