The First Jesuits - Hardcover

O'Malley, John W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674303121 ISBN 13: 9780674303126

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1993

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Book by OMalley John W

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A magnificent achievement both of synthesis and interpretation. -- Philip Endean, SJ "The Way" A masterly account of the first generation of Jesuits ...carried out with an economy and insight that compel admiration. -- Anthony Grafton "New York Review of Books" This is surely the best book ever written in English on the first Jesuits and the early Society of Jesus. It may well be the best book on that topic ever written in any language. This is a work that is deeply original, always clear, often brilliant. -- John Padberg "America" This is a major study of the first crucial years of one of the most important institutions of modern Europe. Perhaps the price of the impact of the Society of Jesus is that both hagiographical and demonic myths have encrusted its early history. This learned and eloquent study scrapes away those myths in order to tell the complex, almost improvisational history of the first twenty-five years of the Society of Jesus...No study in any language provides such an authoritative and fascinating picture. -- Paul F. Grendler "Journal of Modern History" Neither fazed nor overwhelmed, Father O'Malley never loses sight of the forest among the myriad trees...In this book three tenacious myths bite the dust. The first is that Ignatius had a detailed blueprint for his companions...A second myth is that the Jesuits were founded to combat the Reformation and to spearhead its Roman Catholic riposte, the Counter-Reformation...The third myth is that the Jesuits were founded as the pope's shock troops...Far from being a simple chronicle, it is an account of how the Jesuits, led by the internal dynamism of the Holy Spirit, responded to unpredictable events and new needs. -- Peter Hebblethwaite "New York Times Book Review" A masterly account of the first generation [of Jesuits]...carried out with an economy and insight that compel admiration. -- Anthony Grafton "New York Review of Books"

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"Seven Spanish devils" entered Italy after the year 1530, wrote John Addington Symonds, and one of them was "Jesuistry, with its sham learning, shameless lying, and casuistical economy of sins." Within a century, two of the offending party were canonized. Reviled as devils, revered as saints; from the first, the Jesuits have evoked extreme reactions, but little in the way of thorough scholarship and measured treatment. Here, however, John O'Malley attempts a comprehensive account of the Society of Jesus in its founding years. "The First Jesuits" aims to alter our notions of culture and religion in the Renaissance. Generally viewed as a militant order, completely obedient to the pope and given to the task of combating Protestantism, the Jesuits emerge from these pages as primarily a company of pastors. These men were committed first and foremost to saving and consoling souls, and only incidentally to serving the Counter Reformation. Following the Society from 1540 to 1565, the author shows how this sense of mission evolved. He looks at the Jesuits' teaching, their preaching and their casuistry; also their work with orphans and prostitutes, their attitudes toward Jews and "New Christians", their involvement with inquisitions and book banning, and their relationship to the Reformation and the Council of Trent. All are examined in O'Malley's story, as he details the Society's manifold activities in Europe, Brazil, and India. By taking full account of current scholarship in many areas, he is able to set the Jesuits within the context of the 16th century, and through them, to give us a new perspective on the phenomenon known as the Catholic Reformation. Aiming for an understanding of the Society of Jesus, this book, in its depth, scope, and interdisciplinary approach, embraces the history of religion, education, culture, and social institutions.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0674303121
• ISBN 13: 9780674303126
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 472