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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,...

Ignatius of Loyola is one of the most significant figures for the history of Christian spirituality. Particularly influential are the Spiritual Exercises, a set of reflections, meditations, prayers, and mental exercises designed as a model for contemplative prayer, training, and spiritual discernment.1 Karl Rahner, Catholic theologian and admirer of Ignatius, has contended that Ignatius’ “relatively brief rules for the discernment of spirits provided a practical and formal systematic
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