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Constitutions of the Society of Jesus
Constituciones de la Compañía de Jesús
Ten parts that follow a Jesuit's path: admission, dismissal, formation of novices, studies and colleges (Part IV, the basis of Jesuit pedagogy), final incorporation, the life of the professed, missions, union of those dispersed, the general's government and the preservation of the body. They combine legal norms with spiritual criteria: obedience 'like a dead body' that lets itself be carried, apostolic mobility, poverty, and the principle of adapting everything 'to persons, times and places'. Ignatius deliberately left them open to revision.
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Authorship note
Drafted by Ignatius with the decisive collaboration of his secretary Juan Alfonso de Polanco between 1547 and 1556, building on earlier drafts. Jerónimo Nadal promulgated them experimentally from 1552; the First General Congregation approved them in 1558 and the Latin version was printed in Rome in 1558–1559. They include the General Examen and the Declarations.
Editions and translations
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English
Ignatius of Loyola
The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus
The Conscious LibraryThe Constitutions of the Society of Jesus
Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1970
Translation: George E. Ganss
Con introducción y comentario.
Latín
Ignatius of Loyola
Constitutiones Societatis Iesu
The Conscious LibraryConstitutiones Societatis Iesu
In Collegio Romano Societatis Iesu, 1558
Primera edición latina (1558–1559).
Español
Ignatius of Loyola
Constituciones de la Compañía de Jesús y sus declaraciones
The Conscious LibraryConstituciones de la Compañía de Jesús y sus declaraciones
Stabilimento Danesi (Roma), 1908
Edición del texto castellano.
Obras
Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1991
ISBN 9788479140342
Incluye las Constituciones con introducción de Ignacio Iparraguirre.
Other works by Ignatius of Loyola
- Spiritual Exercises · 1548
- Autobiography (A Pilgrim's Testament) · 1555
- Spiritual Diary · 1544
- Letters and Instructions · 1556
- Letter to Teresa Rejadell · 1536
- Letter on Perfection (to the students at Coimbra) · 1547
- Letter on Obedience · 1553
- Formula of the Institute · 1539
- Deliberation of the First Fathers · 1539
- Deliberation on Poverty · 1544
- Autograph Directory and dictated directories · 1555
- Instruction for those going to Trent · 1546
- Rules of the Society (common rules and rules of modesty) · 1555
- 'Anima Christi' (misattribution) · 1350
- Ignatian Sparks (Scintillae Ignatianae) · 1705
Sources
- Ignacio de Loyola. Obras. Transcripción, introducciones y notas de Ignacio Iparraguirre, Cándido de Dalmases y Manuel Ruiz Jurado. Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1991 (5.ª ed.). ISBN 9788479140342.
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