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Zkušenost s duchovním doprovázením v perspektivě ignaciánské spirituality
Experience of Spiritual Direction in the Perspective of Ignatian Spirituality

Author(s): František Hylmar
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: Spiritual Direction; Ignatian Spirituality; Spiritual Exercises; Examen; Spiritual Discernment

Summary/Abstract: After a brief presentation of basic forms of spiritual direction and after stressing the importance of personal spiritual experience, the article describes Ignatian concept of human being in relation with God and God’s adversary and gives an overview of Ignatian spiritual exercises as a general dynamic of human spiritual journey. On this basis, the paper presents fundamental elements of spiritual direction from the perspective of Ignatian spirituality: attitude of openness, awareness of external events and interior movements, sharing of interior life, contemplative prayer, discernment of interior movements, recognition of one’s own weakness and of God’s acceptance, finding one’s way in the following of Christ. The article regards the particularity of the Ignatian approach to spiritual direction in the interconnection of these seven elements, in their dynamics and in the importance of the examen and discernment.

  • Issue Year: V/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 215-231
  • Page Count: 17