Ignatius of Loyola on Extent of the atonement
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that the Second Person shall become man to save the human race
THE POSITION
No position found on extent. The Incarnation contemplation has the three Divine Persons look on the whole world, see that all are going down to hell, and decree that the Second Person become man "to save the human race". The scope is the whole race and nothing in the text restricts it, but whether Christ died for the elect or for all, a question the schools of his day discussed in Lombard's terms, is not asked in the texts read. The passage is evidence about the purpose of the Incarnation, not an answer on extent.
WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE
ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Basque soldier turned pilgrim, founder of the Society of Jesus (1540) and its first superior general. His Spiritual Exercises, begun at Manresa in 1522–23 after his conversion at Loyola in 1521 and approved by Paul III in 1548, are still widely used for retreats; their closing rules for thinking with the Church are his nearest approach to doctrinal statement. This entry rests on the Exercises in Elder Mullan's 1914 translation and the Autobiography in the 1900 English edition by J. F. X. O'Conor.
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"Ignatius of Loyola on Extent of the atonement", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/ignatius-loyola/atonement-extent (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/ignatius-loyola/atonement-extent).