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- Title
Understanding the Early Jesuit Context of "Our Way of Proceeding".
- Authors
Flowers, Thomas
- Abstract
The phrase "our way of proceeding," ubiquitous in internal Jesuit communication and scholarship on the Society alike, can easily appear too elastic to be useful in understanding the Society's charism. Yet the context in which Ignatius of Loyola and the other founding members of the Society employed the phrase indicates its utility in establishing and delimiting the contribution to the work of the Church that the earliest Jesuits hoped to make. It was a phrase, above all, meant to evoke the freedom Jesuits were supposed to have to serve wherever the need was greatest in the Church. As an indication of an embodied, rather than a defined, notion of what it meant to be a Jesuit the phrase's use among the first companions offers a lens through which to examine the Society prior to the major process of institutionalization begun with the writing and promulgation of the Constitutions.
- Subjects
JESUITS; COMMUNICATION; CHARISMA; PROMULGATION (Canon law); CONSTITUTIONS
- Publication
Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2021, Vol 90, Issue 180, p253
- ISSN
0037-8887
- Publication type
Article