IGNATIAN
SPIRITUALITY

Mental visualization of Biblical Scenes

Step-by-step reflection leading to discernment

Examen concerning sin required throughout life

QUIETISM

Non-discursive meditation

Resting in the presence of God

Sin “impossible” in highest stages

[Molinos condemned by Innocent XI in Coelestis Pastor - 19 Nov. 1687]

PROBABILISM
(“LAXITY”)

Penitents given “benefit of the doubt”

Lesser-held opinion may nonetheless be “probable”

[condemned by Pope Alexander VII (1666, 1667) and more forcefully by Pope Innocent XI (1679)]

MORAL RIGORISM

Strict ethical standards and requirement of repentance/penance:

Confessor acts solely on what is certain – always in favor of precept of law

Strict rigorism (“tutiorism” condemned by Pope Alexander VIII in 1690 (Denzinger 2303)

FREEDOM
of the WILL

The soul cooperates with God

(Pelagianism condemned by Augustine)

PREDESTINATION

God has predestined both the elect and the damned.
Without grace, no meritorious act is possible 

(Double predestination condemned in Trent Decree on Justification, canons 15 and 17)

ENGAGEMENT
with “THE WORLD”

Missionary Activity

Education

WITHDRAWAL
from “THE WORLD”

Monastic Enclosure