The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius: Saint Ignatius' Profound Precepts of Mystical Theology (Image Classics)

by Ignatius of Loyola, Pedro de Ribadeneyra, St. Ignatius

Book Overview

Is it time to take your spiritual pulse, re-orient yourself to your Creator, and seek His guidance to live your faith more seriously? The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola outline the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385024363
• Release Date: February 1964
• Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.6" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

very satisfied

This book is the ultimate authentic guide for using the spiritual exercises of Ignatius within the context of a retreat. I am planning on doing just that.

A Real Workout

Let me start off by saying this is not an easy step by step guide to spiritual enlightenment. The exercises are to be done over several weeks and there are specific exercises to be performed each week and at specific times of the day. It's more like a workout plan, but some of the details are omitted and/or assumed. If you've never done the exercises under someone else's guidance and you expect to be able to follow them easily, then you have your work cut out for you. However, the quality and benefits of the exercises themselves is unquestionable. Even if you can't follow the whole "program" or if you don't fully grasp all of the exercises and you can only do one of the exercises, you will benefit greatly. In this hectic paced world, these exercises help you to look inward and improve your relationship with God.

SJ

A guide to the inner soul. This is not a work that is easy to grasp, which makes it all the more a blessing.

Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

Book was very interesting when I reviewed it. Need more time to get more into it.

A worthwhile buy, but not without some problems

George E. Ganss S.J. has produced a nice, modern, readable translation of St. Ignatius Loyola's 'Spiritual Exercises' that the ordinary reader should be comfortable with. In particular, I found the endnotes (Ganss prefers endnotes to footnotes so as not to distract the reader from the flow of the text) most helpful in understanding what St. Ignatius meant in some rather obscure portions of the Exercises. The introductory biography of St. Ignatius also helps place the Exercises in their proper historical and practical context. The one area where the translation is problematic is in the use of inclusive language. While this works for the large part (e.g. in using gender neutral terms when referring to the reader/retreatant - the original text assumes the person making the Exercises is male), it does become theologically problematic when applied to God (e.g. using 'the Divine Majesty' instead of 'His Divine Majesty'). As long as the reader is mindful of such changes, the translation should not present a problem. Overall, a worthwhile buy whether you are simply seeking spiritual growth or as a starting point into Ignatian research.