In this unit, students will explore how the three interconnected elements of Ignatian spirituality — identity, vocation and mission — play out in their lives. Students will be guided to address such fundamental questions as: Who am I before God? What are my deepest desires? With whom am I called to be? Where do I belong? What am I called to do? How am I generative in my life? Answers to these questions will be informed by the Christian vision of the world rooted in the experience and writings of the sixteenth-century Basque saint, Ignatius of Loyola. He documents his encounter with God is these writings particularly in the Spiritual Exercises. The dynamic of the Spiritual Exercises will be used as a template for spiritual growth.
Unit code: DS9109J
Unit status: Archived (New unit)
Points: 24.0
Unit level: Postgraduate Elective
Unit discipline: Spirituality
Delivery Mode: Face to Face
Proposing College: Jesuit College of Spirituality
Show when this unit is running1. | Analyse use of the graces prayed for in the four “Weeks” of the Spiritual Exercises as a guiding matrix |
2. | Describe the Ignatian understanding of the interplay between imagination, desire and mission |
3. | Outline the development of a discerned sense of missional identity as informed by prayer and spiritual conversation |
4. | Synthesise their lived experience with the identity, vocation, mission dynamic of the Spiritual Exercises |
Prohibited combinations: Old code: DS9110J
Lectures, seminars, tutorials, facilitated interaction in small groups.
Type | Description | Word count | Weight (%) |
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Essay | 6000-word integrative essay |
6000 | 100.0 |
Unit approved for the University of Divinity by John Capper on 19 Oct, 2017
Unit record last updated: 2019-10-03 11:34:42 +1000