The Jesuit Guide To (Almost) Everything - James Martin [186]
NOVELS, POEMS, FILMS, WEB SITES, AND OTHER RESOURCES
Almost anything by Anthony de Mello, S.J., is worthwhile; my favorite collection is The Song of the Bird, which includes several of the parablelike stories told in this book. Hearts on Fire, edited by Michael Harter, S.J., is a short compendium of Jesuit prayers penned since the time of Ignatius. Ron Hansen’s novel on Gerard Manley Hopkins, Exiles, makes a natural companion to Paul Mariani’s scholarly biography of the poet. Speaking of Hopkins, read his poems “God’s Grandeur,” “The Windhover,” and “In Honor of St. Alphonsus Rodríguez,” as a way of getting to know this great Jesuit artist.
Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow is a popular science-fiction novel that imagines Jesuits in the near future exploring another planet. The films The Mission and Blackrobe provide good ways of beginning to understand the Jesuit missionary tradition: the first one is based on the South American “reductions”; the second, more loosely, on the lives of the North American martyrs, specifically St. Isaac Jogues.
The Web site jesuit.org, run by the U.S. Jesuits, offers a wealth of resources on Jesuit and Ignatian topics, and sacredspace.ie, run by the Irish Jesuits, provides daily prayer meditations in the Ignatian tradition.
TWO THEOLOGICAL TOPICS
There are two specific theological topics touched upon briefly in this book, which, if treated fully, would have taken up several hundred more pages—at least: the existence of God and the “problem of suffering.” One useful overview on the “proofs” or “arguments” for the existence of God can be found in the magisterial A History of Philosophy, by Frederick Copleston, S.J., which covers the major theological arguments for God, including, most notably, those of St. Anselm and St. Thomas Aquinas. A more focused and user-friendly look at that specific question is contained in The One and the Many, by W. Norris Clarke, S.J. The “problem of suffering,” and how it is approached in the Old and New Testaments, is lucidly presented in Why Do We Suffer? by Daniel J. Harrington, S.J. Created for Joy, by Sidney Callahan, provides a broad overview of Christian theologies on suffering.
MORE BY THE AUTHOR
In Good Company tells the story of my move from the corporate world to the Jesuit novitiate. This Our Exile recounts two years working with refugees in East Africa as a Jesuit scholastic. Becoming Who You Are speaks about vocation and how desire plays a role in becoming our “true selves.” A Jesuit Off-Broadway tells of six months working with a theater company and includes a brief history of “Jesuit theater.” And My Life with the Saints focuses on holy men and women who have been influential and inspiring to me, including three Jesuits: St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Pedro Arrupe, and—who else?—St. Ignatius Loyola.
Index
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Abandonment to Divine Providence (de Caussade), 285
Addictive behaviors, 65–66
Agnostics/atheists, 34–36, 54; author Martin and, 37–38; desire for God and, 63–64; the Examen as “prayer of awareness” for, 101; Ignatian spirituality and, 28; “secular saint,” 35; story of the atheist caught in the flood, 35–36; suffering, question of, 38, 39, 54; totalitarianism and, 45
Allen, Woody, 228
America, 278, 280, 286, 288, 348
Amos: 3:3, 116
Anger, 123–24
Aquinas, St. Thomas, 44, 162, 163, 180
Aristotle, 140
Armchair Mystic (Thibodeaux), 113
Arrupe, Pedro, S.J., 51, 195, 198, 211–12, 218–19, 274, 300, 364
Aschenbrenner, George, S.J., 87–88, 207, 208
Asselin, David, S.J., 131