This final issue of The Way Supplement appears as we prepare to mark the 450th anniversary of Francis Xavier's death, on 3 December 1552. Xavier had worked in India, in what is now Indonesia, and in Japan; he died on an island within sight of China. His letters from the East had contributed significantly to the reputation of the new and still suspect Society of Jesus. Xavier's conversion had, of course, emerged from Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises. Within a generation, the habits of mind fostered by the Exercises were leading at least sorne Jesuit missionaries to reflect more profoundly and articulately on what they were experiencing, and to approach the religious reality of Asia more generously. The pieces in this collection continue this tradition. They focus, not on 'inter-faith dialogue' as such, but on how the encounter with another great religious tradition can change us, can lead us to understand our own identity differently.
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