Consequently, Ong subsequently accentuated sensory cognitive processing in his mature work from the early 1950s onward. In his 1958 book Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason (Harvard University Press), he writes extensively about the aural-to-visual shift in cognitive processing in Western culture (for specific page references, see the "Index" [page 396]).
In Ong's 1967 book The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History (Yale University Press), the expanded version of Ong's 1964 Terry Lectures at Yale University, he writes extensively about the sensorium and shifts in the sensorium (for specific page references, see the "Index" [page 356]).
For further discussion of Ong's account of sensory phenomenology, see my lengthy OEN article "Walter J. Ong's Philosophical Thought" (dated September 20, 2020):
Joseph F. Conwell, S.J., on Ignatian Spirituality
Now, St. Ignatius Loyola and his early companions (and co-founders) exemplified how the discernment process works in Ignatian spirituality when they interpreted obstacles that they met with to mean that they should give up one certain course of service to the church in the Holy Land and search out another course of action for them to take with their fledgling religious institute, which eventually emerged as the Society of Jesus.
Their crucial group discernment is part of the founding of the Society of Jesus that the American Jesuit spiritual director and scholar Joseph F. Conwell (1919-2014) recounts in his admirably accessible and learned 1997 scholarly book Impelling Spirit: Revisiting a Founding Experience: 1539: Ignatius of Loyola and His Companions: An Exploration into the Spirit and Aims of the Society of Jesus as Revealed in the Founders' Proposed Papal Letter Approving the Society, mentioned above. For the record, let us note here that Conwell turned 78 in 1997, the year in which his remarkably learned and admirably accessible book was published.
The impelling Spirit referred to in the book's title is the Holy Spirit, the Third Person in the Divine Trinity in Roman Catholic trinitarian theology, as we noted above. No doubt the subtle personal experience of consolation is an important factor in discerning the work of the Holy Spirit in one's psyche. But Conwell is silent about the subtle personal experience of consolation in one's psyche in his 1997 book.
Conwell's 1997 book Impelling Spirit includes a usefully detailed "Chronology of Principal Events" (pages xxix-xxxii), learned "Endnotes" (pages 427-531), an impressive categorized "Select Bibliography" (pages 533-560), and an admirably detailed "Index" (pages 561-585).
In the "Chronology of Principal Events" (pages xxix-xxxii), Conwell notes that Ignatius Loyola was seriously wounded in battle in Pamplona in 1521, the year in which he turned thirty. He was carried to his Loyola home where he recuperated, during which time he experienced a profound religious conversion and left his Loyola home. According to Conwell, Ignatius Loyola began to write the Spiritual Exercises in 1522.
In 1534, Alessandro Farnese was elected Pope Paul III.
In 1539, Ignatius Loyola and his younger companions work on the text of the Formula of the Institute and draft a cover letter for Pope Paul III to send them approving their Institute.
In 1540, on September 27, Pope Paul III officially approves the Society of Jesus with the bull Regimini militantis Ecclesiae.
In 1548, Pope Paul III approves the Spiritual Exercises.
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