JESUIT STUDIES IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY HISTORY

The three main articles featured in Jesuit Spirituality-a Now and Future Resource were originally presented at the ignatian Charism Days held at Loyola University of Chicago, June 1989, for Chicago Province Jesuits. The happy reception of the papers, authored by three well-known Jesuits-John O'Malley, John Padberg, and Vincent O'Keefe led to this publication by Loyola University Press. Commentaries on the O'Keefe paper by Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, and by Sister Carol Frances Jegen, B.V.M., are included.

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Fr. O'Malley describes the Jesuit experience over the first founding years, 1540 through 1615. As against a sometimes idealized picture, he writes: "... to leave the impression that what was distinctive of Jesuit spirituality was that it adopted and adapted all that was best in the age and left the dross behind........ would be nonsense, of course.... We need read only a few sources to realize that the early Jesuits were just human beings-energetic, committed, agile of mind, intensely devout, willing to learn from their mistakes but like us, creatures of their own time and place."