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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,...

most of it as an offering to God and to avoid vanity), and his Constitutions which govern the management of the Jesuits. Ignatius’ most important contribution to the focus of this study is his Rules for Discerning of Spirits, divided into Rules 1–14 for the First Week of the Spiritual Exercises, and Rules 1–8 for the Second Week, with only brief reference to his Autobiography and Spiritual Diary. Significant analysis of Ignatius’s words, meanings, and purpose concerning the gift of discerning of
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