A companion to Ignatius of Loyola
Subtitle: life, writings, spirituality, influence
By: edited by Robert Aleksander Maryks
Series: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition -- 52; Brill's companions to the Christian tradition -- 52.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9789004251137
Description: The Companion to Ignatius of Loyola' aims at placing Loyola's life, his writings, and spirituality in a broader context of important late medieval and early modern movements and processes that have been appreciated too little by historians who explored Ignatius more as the colossal icon of the so-called Counterreformation than as a man influenced by the dramatic and revolutionary period in which he lived. One book will be never able to cover all aspects of such rich and controversial a figure as Ignatius of Loyola but the fifteen chapters of this volume indicate important directions of current scholarship that reassesses the previous scholarship and suggests new angles of studies on this pivotal figure of early modern period.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-327) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the quest for the historical Ignatius  -- Robert Aleksander Maryks; title: Ignatius, women, and the Leyenda de los santos  -- Elizabeth Rhodes; title: Unwise paths: Ignatius Loyola and the years of Alcalá de Henares  -- Stefania Pastore; title: A saint under trial: Ignatius of Loyola between Alcalá and Rome  -- Sabina Pavone; title: Ignatius of Loyola and his first companions  -- Jose ́García de Castro Valdés; title: Ignatius of Loyola and the converso question  -- Robert Aleksander Maryks; title: The writings of Ignatius of Loyola as seminal text  -- Pierre-Antoine Fabre; title: Ignatius's governing and administrating the Society of Jesus  -- Markus Friedrich; title: Ignatius Loyola and Martin Luther: the history and basis of a comparison  -- William David Myers; title: Ignatius of Loyola and Juan de Ávila on the ascetic life of the laity  -- Rady Roldán-Figueroa; title: Defeating the infidels, helping their souls: Ignatius Loyola and Islam  -- Emanuele Colombo; title: The Jesuit instrument: on Saint Ignatius of Loyola's modernity  -- Christopher van Ginhoven Rey; title: Loyola's Spiritual exercises and the modern self  -- Moshe Sluhovsky; title: Attention and indifference in Ignatius's Spiritual exercises  -- David Marno; title: Ignatian spirituality and Buddhism  -- Javier Melloni Ribas; title: The Spiritual exercises: from Ignatian imagination to secular literature  -- Frédéric Conrod; title: Conclusion -- Robert Aleksander Maryks.