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Title

Life in faith and freedom : an essay presenting Gaston Fessard's analysis of the Dialectic of the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius / Édouard Pousset ; translated and edited by Eugene L. Donahue.

Author

Pousset, Édouard.

Publication

St. Louis : Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1980.

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Additional Authors

Donahue, Eugene L.

Description

xxviii, 238 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Modern scholarly studies about the Jesuits, in English translations. Series 2 ; no. 4

Subject

• Fessard, Gaston
• Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556

Note

• Translation of: La Vie dans la foi et la liberté.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• FREEDOM -- Invincible freedom -- Within duration and under conditions -- Are there decisive acts and definitive commitments? -- The absolute and the relative -- In search of unity -- A choice uniting the absolute and the relative
• THE FOUR WEEKS -- Note on "being" and "non-being"
• THE FIRST WEEK -- First exercise -- Sin of the angel -- Original sin -- The sin of any man whatever -- The comparison proposed by St. Ignatius -- Suggestions for presenting this exercise -- Second exercise -- Third and fourth exercises -- Fifth exercise -- End of the first week -- Practical note -- Note on the term "representation"
• THE SECOND WEEK -- Transition from the first to the second week -- The choice between good and evil -- Two men in me -- Panorama of the second week -- The kingdom -- The two standards -- Three classes of men -- The kingdom -- The two standards -- Three classes of men -- The evangelical mysteries -- Three kinds of humility -- Note on the application of the senses -- Practically speaking...
• THE CHOICE -- Introduction to making a choice of a way of life -- Matters about which a choice should be made -- Three times when a correct and good choice of a way of life may be made -- Two ways of making a choice in the third time -- Universalizing the ways of making a choice -- Note on the immediate relation between God and the creature -- This experience and time
• THE THIRD WEEK -- After the choice : logical summary of the third and fourth weeks -- The third week -- First contemplation : the last supper -- Seed of resurrection -- Death sentence -- Second contemplation : the agony -- The three special points of the third week -- Transition from teh third to the fourth moment : Christ's three days in the tomb -- Recapitulation of the first three weeks
• THE FOURTH WEEK -- Application to the act of freedom -- Growth in the positing of being -- The disappearing of the positing of being : ascension -- Note on the denouement of the dialectic of the exercises
• THE RULES FOR THE DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS -- The terrain of the spiritual life -- The rules for spiritual discernment -- Rules for the first week -- Rules for the second week

ISBN

• 0912422416 (pbk.) :
• 0912422394 (pbk.) :
• 0912422408 (Smyth sewan pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^79084200^

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Harvard Library