The Mysticism of St. Ignatius Loyola

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Taught by one of the world’s leading experts on Christian mysticism, this stunning course reveals the powerful mysticism that inspired St. Ignatius and the charism he introduced.

Your award-winning professor, Boston College’s Fr. Harvey D. Egan, S.J., earned his theology doctorate under Karl Rahner. St. Ignatius the Mystic is the apex of his 50-year scholarly and devotional exploration of Christian mysticism. You will find this 12-lecture audio course both highly informative and spiritually uplifting.

Fr. Egan will take you beyond Ignatius’s pragmatic successes in asceticism and spirituality, reminding you of Ignatius’s forgotten contributions to the Christian mystical tradition. Setting aside the general view of Ignatius as a man of action, a reformer, and a man of organizational genius, you will also come to see him as a mystic of breathtaking profundity.

For Fr. Egan, the notion of a mystical Ignatius is deep-seated and highly personal. As a young Jesuit, he had a transformative retreat experience with the Exercises. Later, as a doctoral student of Karl Rahner, he wrote a dissertation that translated the mystical wisdom of Ignatius of Loyola into a contemporary framework. Today, Fr. Egan cites Ignatius of Loyola as “the mystic whom I know best and who has most influenced my life.”

Now, it is your turn to discover the beautiful ideas that  mark Ignatius as a mystic in the long and sumptuous Christian tradition. Through melodic meaningful words, this series demonstrates that his apostolic successes are the enigmatic expressions and sacramental embodiments of his radical mysticism, communicated to all dimensions of human existence. You will treasure this course.

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