In The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Loyola: Contexts, Sources, Reception, Terence O'Reilly examines the historical, theological and literary contexts in which the Exercises took shape.

Terence O'Reilly is professor emeritus of Spanish at University College Cork. His principal field of research is the literature and history of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain. His latest book is The Bible in the Literary Imagination of Golden Age Spain (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph University Press, 2010).