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More Americans Should Live Heroic Lives of Virtue (Review Essay)

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Loyola, Ignatius. The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius [Loyola]: A Translation and Commentary by George E. Ganss, S.J. St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1992.

Ignatius Loyola's book titled Spiritual Exercises is a classic designed for use by orthodox Christians. Have you ever read a cookbook from cover to cover? If you have not, then you probably should not undertake to read Ignatius Loyola's short book titled Spiritual Exercises from cover to cover. Like a cookbook, Loyola's book contains recipes or instructions for doing something. The recipes or instructions are instructions for doing something, for practicing as it were. As confusing as it sounds, the instructions are for doing what are referred to as "spiritual exercises." So we might say that the book title represents truth in advertising because the title accurately advertises the contents of the book. Nevertheless, it can sound confusing when we speak of write. Are we referring to the book title (Spiritual Exercises), or are we refer to specific contents (spiritual exercises)? For this reason, the scholarly convention is to italicize the book title, but not to italicize references to book contents (plural references or singular). In any event, the spiritual exercises in the book are for doing, for practice. To do the spiritual exercises as the instructions call for them to be done, one engages in using one's imagination. In its optimal form, this kind of use of one's imagination is what C. G. Jung means by active imagination. Concerning Jung's understanding of active imagination, see C. G. Jung, Encountering Jung on Active Imagination, edited and with an Introduction by Joan Chodorow (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997).

 

May, James M. Trials of Character: The Eloquence of Ciceronian Ethos. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

 

Moore, Robert L. The Archetype of Initiation: Sacred Spaces, Ritual Process, and Personal Transformation: Lectures and Essays by Robert L. Moore. Edited by Max J. Havlick, Jr. Bloomington, Indiana: Xlibris, 2001.

Robert L. Moore of Chicago Theological Seminary, which is across the street from the University of Chicago, received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is very fond of three University of Chicago professors: Mircea Eliade, Paul Tillich, and Victor Turner. Moore's doctoral dissertation was a Freudian study of John Wesley. Subsequently, Moore earned a diplomate in Adlerian psychology. Later on, he earned a diplomate in Jungian psychology.

 

Moore, Robert and Douglas Gillette. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisci/HarperCollins, 1990.

The five books co-authored by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette should be read as one work.

 

Moore, Robert and Douglas Gillete. The King Within: Accessing the King [Archetype] in the Male Psyche. New York: William Morrow, 1992; revised and expanded edition, Chicago: Exploration Press, 2007.

 

Moore, Robert and Douglas Gillete. The Warrior Within: Accessing the Knight [Archetype] in the Male Psyche. New York: William Morrow, 1992.

Warrior energy is most important for living an heroic life of virtue.

 

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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)
 

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