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How to See the Holy Spirit, Angels, and Demons: Ignatius of Loyola on the Gift of Discerning of Spirits in Church Ethics is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Spiritual Exercises, Jesuit founder Ignatius of Loyola wrote sets of rules for discerning spirits He taught how the church can receive from God the gift to see otherwise invisible angels, demons, and the Holy Spirit. In How to See the Holy Spirit, Angels, and Demons, Gordon James Klingenschmitt explores Ignatius’ rules through interaction with contemporary scholars Karl Rahner, Hugo Rahner,...

intertwined and interdependent. We, as a church, cannot properly discern or define right from wrong ethically, unless we are first able to discern the Spirit of God from the Devil, pneumatologically. And, unless we properly discern ecclesial ethics, knowing right from wrong morally, we will fail to discern the Holy Spirit from a demon, pneumatologically. Non-human spirits and human morals reveal each other, each helping us to properly discern the other. In this study, I have explained the gift of
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