Instruments of the divinity : providence and praxis in the foundation of the Society of Jesus
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Instruments of the divinity : providence and praxis in the foundation of the Society of Jesus
（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 226）
Brill, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-239) and index
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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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
PART ONE: AD MODUM LABORANTIS: THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES OF SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA AND THE THEOLOGY OF USE
1. The Suspect Zone of Mysticism
2. From the Image to the Spiritual Passions
3. The Use of Things
4. Ad modum laborantis
PART TWO: THE PRAXIS OF PROVIDENCE: THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS AND THE THEOLOGY OF THE INSTRUMENT
5. Providence
6. The Jesuit Instrument
7. Sacramental Instrumentality
8. Instruction
9. World
PART THREE: THE DAMAGED INSTRUMENT: IGNATIUS' CRITIQUE OF ASCETIC IDEALS
10. The Ascetic Drive
11. The Rara Avisof Discernment
12. A Hermeneutic Instrumentality
13. A Community of Instruments?
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