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THE WAY January 2016
Foreword 7–8
Lessons from the Spirit of Pedro Arrupe: For the Seventieth 9–19
Anniversary of Hiroshima
James Menkhaus
Pedro Arrupe was Superior General of the Jesuits in the turbulent years
immediately after the Second Vatican Council. Earlier in his Jesuit life, he
had been novice master in Hiroshima when the first atomic bomb was
dropped on that city. Here James Menkhaus asks what lessons can be
drawn from Arrupe’s experience seven decades after Hiroshima was
destroyed.
Praying with Images: Some Medieval Advice 20–30
Anne Mouron
Of the three Abrahamic faiths, Christianity has been most consistently
content to use images as an aid to prayer. Here Anne Mouron describes a
late medieval text, The Desert of Religion, which offered the monks for
whom it was originally intended a series of meditative illustrations alongside
its poetic text. This can suggest ways of incorporating such images into
prayer that have lost none of their relevance in the intervening centuries.
Saints, the Church and Personal Prayer 31–44
Robert E. Doud
‘The reason why the universal Church canonizes saints is so that we will
look around us and see examples of holiness for us to copy.’ Starting from
this premise, and drawing on examples from poetry, art, and the writings of
Thomas Merton, Robert Doud reflects on how such examples can touch
our own prayer, and so enable a deeper growth of the holiness that is the
ultimate goal of any Christian life.
Bede Griffiths’s Advaitic Approach to Religion 45–56
Ambrose Ih-Ren Mong
Advaita is a Hindu term signifying a certain unity between human beings
and the divine. The Christian theologian Bede Griffiths attempted to
reconcile this notion with his own faith, and use it to open up a dialogue
with Eastern religions. Although his understanding remains controversial,
Ambrose Ih-Ren Mong argues that it represents an important element in
the relationship between Indian Christians and their Hindu neighbours.