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J Matthew Ashley

Professor of Christian Spirituality

Biography

 

Areas of Expertise

 

Courses

  • Contemplation and Action
  • Theology of the Exercises

 

Selected Publications

  • Renewing Theology: Ignatian Spirituality and Karl Rahner, Ignacio Ellacuria, and Pope Frances, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022.
  • Interruptions: Mysticism, Politics and Theology in the Work of Johann Baptist Metz. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998.
  • Take Lord and Receive all My Memory: Toward an Anamnestic Mysticism, 2015 Pere Marquette Lecture. Miwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2015.
  • "Pope Francis as Interpreter of Ignatius's Spiritual Exercises," Spiritus vol. 17, no.2 (Fall 2017).
  • Is it Providential, by Chance? Christian Objections to the Role of Chance in Darwinian Evolution, in Chance in Evolution, ed. Grant Ramsey & Charles Pence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
  • "The Jesuit University as an Instrument of Mercy," Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal: Vol. 7 : No. 1, Article 3. (2018).