La primera imagen del examen de conciencia en la espiritualidad ignaciana: orar con el Via vitae Aetemae (1620) de Antonius Sucquet SJ: The first image of the examination of conscience in Ignatian spirituality: praying with the Via vitae Aetemae (1620) by Antonius Sucquet SJ.
This year, it will be 400 years since the publication of the bestselling Via vitae aeternae (1620), by Flemish Jesuit Antoon Sucquet. Striking in its engravings, they no longer occupy the "composition of place" when meditating the life of Christ as in Nadal's posthumous Imagines (1593...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Institution of Catholic Studies
2020
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Archivum historicum Societatis Iesu
Year: 2020, Volume: 89, Issue: 178, Pages: 313-335 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CE Christian art KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history |
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B Meditation B Reconciliation B Jesuits B Jesus Christ |
| Summary: | This year, it will be 400 years since the publication of the bestselling Via vitae aeternae (1620), by Flemish Jesuit Antoon Sucquet. Striking in its engravings, they no longer occupy the "composition of place" when meditating the life of Christ as in Nadal's posthumous Imagines (1593), but rather situate readers within the imagined space, as a pilgrim in the process of configuration with Christ, from meditation over contemplation to action. These images remarkably "narrate" visually and spatially the interior life with Christ. The image that represents the examination of conscience, which in fact is the first known of this theme, ingeniously combines both the particular and the general exam. It proposes an anagogical way towards the reunion with God, a laborious process of reconciliation before Christ, the merciful Judge. Because many engravings of this celebrated example of a 17th-century Ignatian lay spirituality influenced the first illustrated edition of the Spiritual Exercises (1649), it is all the more surprising that the engravings of both the particular and the general exam (the well-known "mnemotechnical hand") have little to do with this noticeable anagogical image. (English) |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Jesuiten, Archivum historicum Societatis Iesu
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