Ignatius of Loyola · 1553
Letter on Perfect Obedience (to the Jesuits of Portugal)
- Period
- Earlier work, influential in the period
- Original title
- Carta de la obediencia
- Language
- Spanish
- Form
- Letter
- Text
- Full text
- English
- Period translation · Letters and Instructions (1914)
- Source text
- archive.org
- Selected
- Ben Breen, 2026-09-29; suggested by Claude research agents, 29 Sep 2026
- Status
- Arguments unverified; quotations chosen by machine, unchecked
Q21HABIT
Can repeated obedience train a person to obey without judgment?Yes. and it should. Obedience should reach the third degree, obedience of the understanding: the subject submits his own judgment to the superior's and accepts commands blindly.
Summary disputed by reviewer: c1 contains a statement of blind obedience of the understanding, but it is in Loyola's 1542 letter to Giovanni Battista Viola, not the 1553 Letter on Perfect Obedience.
Opened Internet Archive Spanish text dated 26 March 1553; confirmed 'obediencia de entendimiento' and 'a ciegas'.