Jerome Nadal’s Apologia for Interreligious. Spiritual Exercises and its Contemporary Implications
This article argues that the Jesuit Jerome Nadal’s Apologia for the Spiritual Exercises (c. 1555) provides a positive yet limited precedent for giving the Spiritual Exercises interreligiously. Responding to criticisms that the Exercises’ election process requires a quasi-Lutheran certainty regarding...
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| Language: | English |
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Ed. Pontificia Univ. Gregoriana
2020
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Gregorianum
Year: 2020, Volume: 101, Issue: 4, Pages: 849-869 |
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B Erin Cline B Ignazio di Loyola B Roger Haight B Jerónimo Nadal B Natura B Esercizi Spirituali B William Reiser B Interreligioso |
| Summary: | This article argues that the Jesuit Jerome Nadal’s Apologia for the Spiritual Exercises (c. 1555) provides a positive yet limited precedent for giving the Spiritual Exercises interreligiously. Responding to criticisms that the Exercises’ election process requires a quasi-Lutheran certainty regarding the exercitant’s state of grace, Nadal replies that the Exercises could be extended to those in whom sanctifying grace cannot be safely presumed, especially Jews and Muslims. He recommends distilling various exercises to their natural-law principles while waiting for a probable sign, in the form of spiritual consolation, of the operation of supernatural charity in the exercitant. Nadal’s position on giving the Exercises interreligiously thus differs from the strategies proposed in the contemporary Anglophone conversation, as evident in the writings of Reiser, Haight, and Cline. |
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