Examen de la oracion declaracion y practica de la quinta adicion de los Ejercicios de San Ignacio

Published in 1941 by Cultura Religiosa, this work was written by the Spanish Jesuit scholar José Calveras. It functions as a specialized theological examination focusing on the practice and declarations of the fifth addition of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. The text emerged during a period of mid-twentieth-century Jesuit intellectual inquiry that sought to re-examine the foundational meditative methodologies of the order, providing academic rigor to the application of Ignatian spirituality.

Calveras was highly regarded for his archival and historical research into the original manuscripts and early editions of the Spiritual Exercises. In this volume, he aimed to clarify the structural complexities of the fifth addition, a technical component of the Exercises concerned with the preparation and application of the senses during prayer. The work is characteristic of the rigorous, scholarly approach to religious pedagogy promoted by the Society of Jesus in Spain during the 1940s, serving primarily as a resource for retreat masters and theologians rather than the general public.