Ignatian spirituality

Finding God in All Things – Ignatian Spirituality Spirit is derived from the Hebrew word ruach, meaning wind. What is Spirituality? The definition of spirituality that I most prefer “is that which animates a person’s life of faith to greater depths and perfection.” God calls, we respond. There are many examples of call-response accounts throughout the Old and New Testaments. In Exodus 3:10, God calls Moses to lead his chosen people out of Egypt, Moses responds. God called Moses to something greater, Moses responded and became known as the Lawgiver of Isreal. In Matthew 4:18-22, Jesus calls Simon to “Follow me”, Simon responds. Jesus called Simon, he responded and became “a fisher of men.” God calls, we respond; this is the fundamental…

The active, written, discursive pursuit of the incomprehensible established in Rahner’s writing acts as a form of spirituality. In this way, self-reflexivity grounded in tradition develops as spiritual theology. Evident in Ronald Modras’ Ignatian Humanism: A Dynamic Spirituality for the 21st Century, Patrick Byrne’s “The Passionateness of Being: The Legacy of Bernard Lonergan”, and Bernard Lonergan’s “Method in Theology” and “Healing and Creating in History”, I will focus on how…

front of us. In the Second Week of the Spiritual Exercises, we accompany Jesus through his life by imagining scenes from the Gospel stories. We are like watching a movie but we also involve ourselves in the movie scenes. We are encouraged to bring all the senses into work – seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling and feelings of the event in order to be part of the Gospel story. This is done in order we have a vivid imaginative encounter with Jesus in an authentic way. O’Brien says that…

Since I can remember, I have wanted to be a nurse. Not just a regular Register Nurse but a Pediatrician Oncology Nurse. That is why I have decided to write this paper on how children with cancer use religion in their lives at such a critical time, how their parents use spirituality to cope, and spiritual distress. In the article, Seminars in Oncology Nursing, it states “Spiritual integrity is a basic human need, the perceived spirit within each individual as a driving force giving mean to life…

Visual Analysis Most cultures believe in something that brings tradition, happiness and upholds a sense of community, despite what it is. According to some cultures, artwork is a belief that replaces normal religious practices. This piece of art i am depicting is hosted at UCLA Fowler Museum and was illustrated by Ezeki Ngwo. This mask identifies itself with the Igbo people, a southeastern Nigeria culture that performs spiritual rituals that manifest themes of mystery and supernatural power. The…

Wilfred Smith in his book The Meaning and End of Religion traces the development of the concept of religion and demonstrates that it is a word attributed to the Western world used to describe traditions as mutually exclusive systems of belief. This process is known as reification, “mentally making religion into a thing, gradually coming to conceive it as an objective systematic entity” (Smith, 51). This has proved damaging because to say that religion is reified is to claim that something…

A person’s worldview is made up of a person’s values and beliefs. Some people worldviews include a God or multiple Gods, while others do not believe in any Gods. Through out this essay I will be discussing what the possible various meanings of spirituality are and the seven basic worldview questions. My personal worldview and options will also be included. Pluralism, or the ability to discuss and accept another’s beliefs and not just tolerating them, is an important trait of today’s time (Eck,…

Robin’s Sylvans purpose in this book appears to be to prove that contemporary western music should considered more often in the study of musicology because it greatly embodies the spirituality in today’s western cultures. Through the process he used to prove his thesis, described previously, he achieves this goal. What makes Traces of the spirit different from other books who have made this argument is the diversity in the material being discussed. Instead of just exploring one type of popular…

During our time in the world, Christians often find themselves in close contact with skeptics- agnostics, atheists, or those people who simply don’t care about a spiritual life, who all have their own reasons to distrust the church and the Bible as a whole. The questions these people pose are not simple ones, not questions that can be answered by a simple “John 3:16” or a “Jeremiah 29:11.” How then should we, as a part of the body of Christ, react to and answer those people who desire more…

Faith, Theology, and Evangelization. These words are heard often in our Catholic faith. What do each of these words mean? How are they different? Also, how are they the same? I have been able to experience each of these words both academically and personally. Let 's start with faith. It has become apparent to me that there is more than one meaning of faith. The first is a noun, the type of Faith which is the "revelation of God." It 's also known as the "Deposit of Faith." This kind of faith is…