Descripción
We find ourselves, as did Ignatius of Loyola, in a cultural moment where the Church, concerned for the dignity of the human person, would do well to affirm this narrative capability and to offer, yet again, her liberating narrative of Christ as a model – Christ who is both image and guide, both the horizon and the help that makes hope possible. This project is divided into four parts. Part I is an attempt to define terms, to lay the basic foundation for what an ‘Ignatian narrativity’ might imply. Part II is a general reading of the Spiritual Exercises in light of the narrativity suggested in the first part. Part III serves as a bridge between the foundational argument about narrativity and some characteristics of what might be considered an Ignatian narrative theology. And Part IV presents three essential components of such a theology – an Ignatian perspective on selfhood, knowledge, and experience of God (i.e. anthropology, epistemology, and mystagogy).