The Book
Elizabeth Liebert and Annemarie Paulin Campbell have published a 2nd edition of the popular book, The Spiritual Exercises Reclaimed: Uncovering Liberating Possibilities for Women, used by spiritual directors around the globe in accompanying women through the Spiritual Exercises. This 20th anniversary edition acknowledges obstacles the Exercises hold for women and does justice to women’s experience across cultural contexts and social locations. Drawing on new and younger women’s voices, the revised edition opens up new ways in which the Exercises offer liberating possibilities for women worldwide.
Virtual Book Launch
The authors are excited to introduce their book in the U.S, Europe and Africa at this multi-national virtual book launch sponsored by the Office of Ignatian Spirituality.
Register
Register for this event by emailing retreats@jesuitinstitute.org.za with a note telling them you’d like to register for the Nov. 22 book launch.
About the Authors
Dr. Annemarie Paulin-Campbell is a South African Catholic laywoman who has been working in Ignatian spirituality for the past twenty years and currently leads the spirituality training work of the Jesuit Institute South Africa in Johannesburg. She has a master’s degree in Educational Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand and Master of Arts degree in Christian Spirituality from Heythrop College, University of London. She holds a doctorate in the interface between psychology and spirituality from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. Her doctoral thesis focused on shifts in image of God and self in women making the Spiritual Exercises. Her primary work involves training and supervising spiritual directors and giving retreats, including the Spiritual Exercises.
Annemarie has contributed to several books, including co-authoring Lenten Reflections: Long Journey to the Resurrection with Fr. Nick King SJ. She has authored a number of articles on spiritual direction training in the South African context and has contributed to international conferences and consultations in Christian spirituality in the United Kingdom, the United States, Rome, Spain, Ethiopia, Kenya and Zimbabwe, and online for Australia. She works as a psychologist and life coach and is God-mother to seven children.
Elizabeth Liebert, SNJM, Ph.D., is a Roman Catholic Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary who earned her doctorate in Religion and Personality at Vanderbilt University. She has spent over thirty years offering resources to future leaders of the church to help them understand and deepen their own spiritual grounding and to extend their ministries of spiritual nurture and care of their congregations. Liebert is the first Catholic sister to have served as dean of a Presbyterian seminary.
In addition to establishing formal courses of study in Christian spirituality and Ignatian discernment, Liebert has authored and co-authored several highly affirmed books on spiritual disciplines including Soul of Discernment: A Spiritual Practice for Communities and Institutions. Her most recent book is a second edition of The Spiritual Exercises Reclaimed: Uncovering Liberating Possibilities for Women with co-author Annemarie Paulin-Campbell. Currently, Liebert serves as an Affiliate Faculty at SFTS/Redlands, the Jesuit School of Theology and Lancaster Theological Seminary, as a member of the Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Theological Union and as formation director for her religious congregation.