This issue of The Way is offered as a tribute to the memory of Philip Endean SJ (1954–2023). He was a true gentlemen, an eminent scholar, and his spirit had all the agility, in the words of the song, of an acrobat. Among his academic interests were Karl Rahner, St Ignatius Loyola, the early Society of Jesus and Gerard Manley Hopkins, a variety which this selection of articles reflects. The humility with which he would have viewed his own legacy is perhaps best encapsulated by the concluding words of his book-length study of Rahner: ‘Seen in themselves, our efforts are only fragments: mere attempts to clear space so that God’s grace can be disclosed’. His agility of spirit came not from his exceptional talents alone, but from the inner work of grace that was disclosed through his life and work.
Philip Endean, ‘The Cross and the Graces of the Exercises’, 60–72
Henry Shea, ‘Parallel Tensions: On the Relation between Theologies of Grace and the Ignatian Exercises’, 23–33
J. Matthew Ashley, ‘Fidelity and Creativity: A Theological Appreciation of Philip Endean’, 47–59
Teresa White, ‘Psalmic Odes from Apostolic Times’, 83–94
Philip Harrison, ‘Long Live the Weeds and the Wilderness Yet’, 103–108
Philip Endean, ‘Karl Rahner and the Heart of Christ’, 60–72
Timothy W. O'Brien, ‘Tradition in Time: The Contribution of Philip Endean, Jesuit Historian’, 73–82
Emily Abdeni-Holman, ‘Imagining the Real: Fairy Stories and Spiritual Practice’, 34–46
Michael Barnes, ‘Philip Endean SJ (1954–2023)’, 109–120
Michael Kirwan, ‘The Saint, the Theologian, the Poet and Philip Endean’, 95–101