SU S3 2025 - PRAYER AND DISCERNMENT II

SU S3 2025 - PRAYER AND DISCERNMENT II

Jun 8, 2025 - Jul 20, 2025

SPT526/426

Prayer and Discernment II

Audit (Easy Listening, Non-Credit)

June 8 - July 20  Fully Online

Fr. Christopher Viscardi, STD

Course Description: Both prayer and discernment play a central role in the spirituality of St. Ignatius, especially in the dynamics of The Spiritual Exercises. This course will examine the theology of prayer and the practice and theory of discernment as they have developed in the Christian tradition over the centuries. Part II will focus primarily on discernment and will be offered fully online, with a flexible time frame, allowing students to complete the course over a 6-week period.

Fr. Christopher Viscardi, SJ, completed his doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, in the area of spirituality. His dissertation was a study of the conversion theology of Jonathan Edwards, the New England Puritan and spiritual leader. Since 1979 Fr. Viscardi has been at Spring Hill College, where he is currently chair of the department of theology. He developed the Certificate of Spiritual Direction at SHC and serves as director and major professor of the program.