How to See the Holy Spirit, Angels, and Demons
Overview
In Spiritual Exercises, Jesuit founder Ignatius of Loyola wrote sets of rules for discerning spirits He taught how the church can receive from God the gift to see otherwise invisible angels, demons, and the Holy Spirit. In How to See the Holy Spirit, Angels, and Demons, Gordon James Klingenschmitt explores Ignatius’ rules through interaction with contemporary scholars Karl Rahner, Hugo Rahner, Piet Penning de Vries, Jules Toner, and Timothy Gallagher. He then applies Ignatius’ principles to a study of ecclesial ethics in the narrative theology of Samuel Wells.
Applying Klingenschmitt’s method revolutionizes how we study ecclesiology, soteriology, missiology/world religions, liturgy, worship, Eucharist, hermeneutics, homiletics, pastoral counseling, church history, and politics.
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Consider checking out the work upon which this book is based, The Spiritual Exercises.
- Provides a method for discerning spirits
- Develops methods in Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises
- Interacts with contemporary philosophy and ethics
- Pre-Ignatian Influence Upon Ignatius of Loyola’s Discerning of Spirits
- Ignatius of Loyola on Rules for Discerning of Spirits
- Contemporary Analysis of Discerning of Spirits in Ignatius of Loyola
- Incorporating Discerning of Spirits into Contemporary Ecclesial Ethics
- Applying Ignatian Pneumato-Ethical Method to Ecclesiology
Top Highlights
“I argue that ecclesial ethics depends upon discerning of spirits as a foundational element. The following study will show that because non-human spirits influence, inspire, and manifest themselves within human morality, those spirits should be seen and tested before the church can fulfill its task as a place of ethical decision-making. Only when the two concepts of ‘discernment in ethics’ and ‘discerning of spirits’ are substantially linked, can a clear picture emerge of the pneumatological dimension of ecclesial ethics, and by extension, to the larger field of ecclesiology. Ignatius helps to provide the solution to our problem.” (Pages 1–2)
“Ethics are more than forensic, legal or willful human choices; they are also manifestations of living non-human spirits with intelligent agendas, invisible to our physical eyes but revealed to our spiritual eyes by the morality or immorality they cause to indwell us.” (Page 258)
“This strong connection between spirits and all ethical virtue, whether theological, cardinal, or moral, is the classic element of Ignatian discernment at the heart of this study.” (Page 9)
“non-human spirits expressing their good or evil personalities through human morality.” (Page 23)
“the [non-human] spirit is recognized by the fruits it develops in the [human” (Page 13)
Klingenschmitt offers a rare opportunity for the ecumenical community to renew the understanding and the practices of spiritual discernment in the church. The historical and theological context of Ignatius of Loyola anticipates many concerns of contemporary ecclesiology and ethics regarding the still uncharted pneumatological foundations of the way Christians can discern the spirits.
—Wolfgang Vondey, interim associate dean for academics and associate professor of systematic theology, Regent University, School of Divinity
- Title: How to See the Holy Spirit, Angels, and Demons: Ignatius of Loyola on the Gift of Discerning of Spirits in Church Ethics
- Author: Gordon James Klingenschmitt
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 290
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Demonology; Holy Spirit; Ignatius of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556
- ISBNs: 9781625644091, 9781498268790, 9781630870874, 1625644094, 149826879X, 1630870870
- Resource ID: LLS:HWSHLYSNGLSDMNS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:41:17Z
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