Experience of «god as god» and interreligious dialogue. Reflections in the light of spiritual theology
Abstract
Inspired both in the biblical witness of God's call to persons throughout salvation history and in St. Ignatius Loyola's own personal experience of God-as-God under God's own pedagogical training and the subsequent transposition of this his personal experience into his book of the Spiritual Exercises , this article aims at drawing on Ignatius as a master pedagogue of genuine spiritual experience, as evidenced in the profound dynamics of his Exercises, to show how, in the light of Spiritual Theology, such a genuine experience of God-as-God can be an effective channel of God's Spirit for interreligious dialogue