{"product_id":"the-dialectic-of-the-spiritual-exercises-of-st-ignatius-of-loyola-by-gaston-fessard-s-j-9789004209091","title":"The Dialectic of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola: by Gaston Fessard S.J.","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGaston Fessard, S.J. (1897–1978), was a major mid-twentieth century French intellectual. He was a Hegel expert, but also wrote on issues of the day ranging from the Vichy regime to Christian-Marxist dialogue.  The product of several decades of reflection, Fessard’s work on the Dialectic of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola is the only one of its kind, a careful and penetrating study into the structure and tension of life-changing choices that Ignatius had in mind in his four week spiritual exercises. The Exercises insist on the way of making a spiritual Election, or choice in keeping with God’s will for oneself and for the Christian community at a particular moment in one’s existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThoughts on the Dialectic of the Spiritual Exercises    Oliva Blanchette and James Colbert      List of Figures      Preface      Postscript      Introduction      1 Division of the Exercises    1 How to Make the Four Weeks Coincide with the Three Ways?    2 Deduction of the Divisions of the Exercises      part 1: Before the Act of Freedom   2 Positing Non-being: Week One      3 Negation of the Positing of Non-being: Week Two    1 The Three Degrees of Humility      Part 2: Passage from the Before to the After   Introduction to Part 2      4 The Election    1 Preamble to the Election    2 Introduction concerning the Things about Which Election Must Be Made    3 The Three Times of the Election    4 Two Ways of Making Election in the Third Time (Numbers 178–188)    5 For the Amendment and Reform of One’s Own Life and Condition (Number 189)      Part 3: After the Act of Freedom   Introduction to Part 3      5 Exclusion of All Non-being: Third Week    1 The Growth of the Exclusion of Non-being    2 Passage from the Third to the Fourth Moment: Triduum Mortis    3 Application to the Act of Freedom      6 Positing of Being: Fourth Week    1 Application to the Act of Freedom    2 Growth of the Positing of the Being    3 The Disappearance of the Positing of Being: Ascension      Conclusion: The Contemplatio Ad Amorem Obtinendum    1 First Point    2 Second Point    3 Third Point    4 Fourth Point    5 Suscipe      Circularity of the Exercises and Circularity of Absolute Knowledge: From Ignatius to Hegel through Hölderlin   Afterword    1 Essay on Constructing a Geometrical Scheme of the Exercises    2 Division of the Exercises    3 Perspectives   Appendix: Rules for the Discernment of Spirits    1 Rules for the First Week (Numbers 313–327)    2 Rules for the Second Week (Numbers 328–336)   Further Study of the Ignatian Maxim    Haec sit prima agendorum regula: sic Deo fide, quasi rerum successus omnis a te, nihil a Deo ponderet; ita tamen iis omnem operam admove, quasi tu nihil, Deus omnia solus sit facturus    Section 1: Sources of the Traditional Maxim    Section 2: Structure of Maxim Number 2    Section 3: The Objections against the Traditional Maxim    Section 4: The Secret of These Objections   Figures    Figures 1–10    Figures 14–19    Figures 20–29    Elogium Sepulcrale   Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210625638743,"sku":"9789004209091","price":95.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-dialectic-of-the-spiritual-exercises-of-st-ignatius-of-loyola-by-gaston-fessard-s-j-9789004209091","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}