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Drawing on rediscovered source material, as well as on extensive familiarity with the Western spiritual tradition, Javier Melloni casts an important new light on two key issues of Ignatian spirituality - its indebtedness to the tradition and the way it departs from it. A landmark study in our understanding of both the specific and the contemporary relevance of Ignatian spirituality. Javier Melloni was born in Barcelona. He has studied in Kerala and Paris, and is now working in his home country in the retreat house known as the Cave of St Ignatius in Manresa.

The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius (written between 1522 and 1548) are a very representative example of Catholic Christianity. Although they were elaborated by one individual, they echo the practice of the preceding thousand years. The reality of the Exercises is rooted in the principle of personalisation, and in the discernment of how the act of following Jesus makes itself concrete in history. Javier Melloni follows up his popular exploration of the Spiritual Exercises in their Christian setting, The Exercises of St Ignatius in the Western Tradition, with a new book examining three...