Allowing the Creator to Deal with the Creature: An Approach to the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola

by William A. Barry

In his advice to spiritual directors, Ignatius of Loyola declares that directors should not steer, in one direction or another, those believers who face difficult life decisions. Rather, says... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809134659
• ISBN13: 9780809134656
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Masterful Insights Into The Spiritual Exercises

Barry is a very well known, highly respected and extremely experienced spiritual director, retreat director, and psychologist who writes this text out of that wealth of theoretical knowledge and pastoral experience for spiritual directors and primarily for directors of Ignatian retreats. The title affirms a faith that God deals directly with souls and the director's task is merely to facilitate that relationship, assisting retreatants to clarify their desires, be open to God's self-revelation, and understand their unique role in the divine plan using imaginative prayer, feeling, discernment and previous touchstone religious experience. These themes and more are developed in this masterful text that would be profitable not just to spiritual directors but to anyone whose spirituality is Ignatian or based in the Spiritual Exercises.