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September 15, 2024

Early Modern Jesuits between Obedience and Conscience during the Generalate of Claudio Acquaviva (1581-1615)

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Free Download Silvia Mostaccio, "Early Modern Jesuits between Obedience and Conscience during the Generalate of Claudio Acquaviva (1581-1615)"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1409457060 | EPUB | pages: 218 | 0.5 mb
The Society of Jesus was founded by Ignatius Loyola on a principal of strict obedience to papal and superiors’ authorities, yet the nature of the Jesuits’s work and the turbulent political circumstances in which they operated, inevitably brought them into conflict with the Catholic hierarchy. In order to better understand and contextualise the debates concerning obedience, this book examines the Jesuits of south-western Europe during the generalate of Claudio Acquaviva. Acquaviva’s thirty year generalate (1581-1615) marked a challenging time for the Jesuits, during which their very system of government was called into doubt. The need for obedience and the limits of that obedience posed a question of fundamental importance both to debates taking place within the Society, and to the definition of a collective Jesuit identity. At the same time, struggles for jurisdiction between political states and the papacy, as well as the difficulties raised by the Protestant Reformation, all called for matters to be rethought. Divided into four chapters, the book begins with an analysis of the texts and contexts in which Jesuits reflected on obedience at the turn of the seventeenth century. The three following chapters then explore the various Ignatian sources that discussed obedience, placing them within their specific contexts. In so doing the book provides fascinating insights into how the Jesuits under Acquaviva approached the concept of obedience from theological and practical standpoints.

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September 13, 2024

The Jesuits in Syria 1625-1683 Fishers of Men

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Free Download Mazin Tadros, "The Jesuits in Syria: 1625-1683: Fishers of Men"
English | ISBN: 3031636074 | 2024 | 290 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book examines cross-cultural encounters of the Jesuit missionary enterprise in early modern Southwest Asia. It analyzes the early mission to Syria, paying attention to the key interlocutors of the Jesuits and the many challenges they experienced in their exchanges with other Europeans, Ottoman officials, and Eastern Christians. It demonstrates that there was nominal Muslim-Christian dialogue and important relationships formed between the Jesuits and their Christian and Muslim hosts. The Jesuits in Syria shows that the Jesuits worked in a very complex environment, where competing factions of Europeans, European religious, Eastern Christians, Arab Muslims, Turkish officials, and Turkish Muslims, not to mention "renegades," played important roles.

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September 13, 2024

The Call of Albion Protestants, Jesuits, and British Literature in Poland-lithuania, 1567-1775

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Free Download Miroslawa Hanusiewicz-lavallee, "The Call of Albion: Protestants, Jesuits, and British Literature in Poland-lithuania, 1567-1775 "
English | ISBN: 9004460268 | 2024 | 480 pages | PDF | 15 MB
A comprehensive account of British-Polish literary interactions before the Enlightenment, The Call of Albion presents a compelling portrayal of how key publications by British Protestants and Catholics were transmitted, translated, and recontextualized in Poland-Lithuania, serving both Calvinist and Jesuit agendas.

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