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Instruments of the Divinity
Providence and Praxis in the Foundation of the Society of Jesus
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English
Published/Copyright:
2014
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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.
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Christopher van Ginhoven Rey, Ph.D. (2010), New York University, is Assistant Professor of Language and Culture Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.
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‘’Food for thought about the mind and heart of a complex individual.’’
Paul F. Grendler, University of Toronto. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 4, Winter 2014, p. 1395.
Paul F. Grendler, University of Toronto. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 4, Winter 2014, p. 1395.
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October 24, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9789004260054
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Main content:
244
eBook ISBN:
9789004260054
Audience(s) for this book
All interested in Saint Ignatius of Loyola and the foundation of the Society of Jesus, Jesuit history, early modern Catholicism, the philoosphy of praxis and the theology of providence.
