tesina de licenciatura the ignatian obedience and representation p. antony inigo devasagayam, sj

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FACULTAD DE TEOLOGÍA
INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE ESPIRITUALIDAD

TESINA DE LICENCIATURA

THE IGNATIAN OBEDIENCE AND REPRESENTATION

Presentado por:
P. ANTONY INIGO DEVASAGAYAM, SJ
Dirigido por:
PROF. DR. PASCUAL CEBOLLADA SILVESTRE, S.J.

MADRID, DICIEMBRE 2016

FACULTAD DE TEOLOGÍA
INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE ESPIRITUALIDAD

THE IGNATIAN OBEDIENCE AND REPRESENTATION

Visto Bueno del Director
Prof. Dr. Pascual Cebollada Silvestre, S.J.

Madrid – diciembre 2016

To everyone who is denied of the opportunity to listen to the interior motions
of the Holy Spirit and to represent.

To the voiceless marginalized
who are right in front, still unnoticed
may Christ in them command obedience from us
may the Holy Spirit in them create motions in us for representation.

Abbreviations

AA.VV Various Authors
AAS Acta Apostolicae Sedis, Roma 1909ss.
Ab Autobiografía
ActRSJ Acta Romana Societatis Iesu
AHSI Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu
AL Leonis XIII P. M. Acta, Roma 1891ss.
AL Amoris Laetitia
AR Acta Romana Societatis Iesu
Au Autobiograhpy
C General Congregation (in quotes from J. W. PADBERG, M. D. O’KEEFE & J. L.
MCCARTHY)
CD Collected Decrees of the GC 27
CIC Code of Canon Law (1983)
CIS Centrum Ignatianum Spiritualitatis
Co, Cons Constituciones
D. / d. Decree
DEI Diccionario de Espiritualidad Ignaciana
DHCJ Diccionario Histórico de la Compañía de Jesús
DV (Dei Verbum) Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation. Vatican II, 1965
EE Ejercicios Espirituales
FGC Formula of a General Congregation
FPG Formula of a Provincial Congregation
FN Fontes Narrativi
GC General Congregation of the Society of Jesus
GS (Gaudium et Spes) Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. Vatican
II, 1965
MHSI Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu
MIEpp. Monumenta Ignatiana, Epistolae
n. number
NC Complementary Norms (Normae Complementariae Constitutionum Societatis)
OT (Optatam Totius) Decree on Priestly Formation. Vatican II, 1965
PC (Perfectae Caritatis) Decree on the Adaptation and Renewal of the
Religious Life. Vatican II, 1965
Sp.Ex. Spiritual Exercises

Table of Content

Abbreviations .................................................................................................... i
General Introduction ...................................................................................... 1

Chapter 1

The Ignatian idea of the obedience ............................................................. 5
1. Obedience – Characteristic virtue ............................................................................... 6
2. Do we obey for Superior’s merits? .............................................................................. 7
3. The foundation - Christ................................................................................................. 8
4. Three degrees of obedience .......................................................................................... 9
5. The Perfect Obedience ................................................................................................ 12
6. Means to The Third Degree ........................................................................................ 14
7. Representation ............................................................................................................. 15
7.1 Representation is not confrontation .................................................................... 18
7.2 Example of St Ignatius ........................................................................................... 18
7.3 Representation is not democratization ............................................................... 19
8. Conclusion .................................................................................................................... 20
iv The Ignatian obedience and representation

Chapter 2

Obedience in the Bible .............................................................................. 21
1. In the Old Testament ................................................................................................... 22
1.1 God’s initiative ....................................................................................................... 23
1.2 To hear means to fulfill ......................................................................................... 23
1.3 Covenant demands obedience ............................................................................. 24
1.4 Law - Foundation of religion and ethics ............................................................. 25
2. Obedience in the New Testament ............................................................................. 26
2.1 Jesus – the continuity of the Old Testament ...................................................... 27
2.2 Obedience and early Christians ........................................................................... 28
2.3 Apostles and obedience ........................................................................................ 28
2.4 Obedience reflected as morality .......................................................................... 30
2.5 Obedience to Civil Authority ............................................................................... 31
2.5.1 Obedience in family ......................................................................................... 32
2.5.2 Jesus the model of authority ........................................................................... 32
3. Obedience, disobedience and representation ......................................................... 33
3.1 Representation in the pre-historic time .............................................................. 33
3.1.1 Sin enters humanity ......................................................................................... 34
3.2 The God of Abraham and representation .......................................................... 34
3.3 The God of Moses and representation ................................................................ 36
3.4 Representation and Mary ..................................................................................... 37
3.4.1 Representation and Jesus ................................................................................ 38
3.4.2 Gethsemane – Representation rejected? ....................................................... 39
4. Conclusion .................................................................................................................... 39