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Chapter 14 - Jesuit Life and Spirituality

from Part III - Religious, Theological, and Philosophical Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2025

By
Philip Endean
Edited by
Martin Dubois
Martin Dubois
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Summary

This chapter discusses the influence of Jesuit life and spirituality on Hopkins. It begins by sketching the history of the Jesuit order and of the English province more specifically in Hopkins’s time. The chapter proposes that while Hopkins’s Jesuit commitment shaped his daily life, and was rooted in a particular kind of relationship with God, it was not exclusive, and interacted with other factors. It goes on to observe that Hopkins’s Jesuit charism appears relatively marginal to his poetry, with the Ignatian spirituality that Hopkins is now often taken to exemplify only established in the twentieth century. What matters is instead Hopkins’s conviction that Jesuit life opened him to a particular kind of intimacy with God.

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Gerard Manley HopkinsJesuitSt Ignatius LoyolaIgnatian spiritualitySpiritual Exercises
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Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context , pp. 118 - 128
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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