Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ways of Proceeding Within the Society of Jesus / Robert Aleksander Maryks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maryks, Robert A., author.

Series:

Jesuit studies ; Volume 6.

Jesuit Studies ; Volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identification (Religion).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2016

Boston, Massachusetts : Koninklijke Brill nv, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The volume theme is the distinctiveness of Jesuits and their ministries that was discussed at the first International Symposium on Jesuit Studies held at Boston College’s Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies in June 2015. It explores the quidditas Jesuitica , or the specifically Jesuit way(s) of proceeding in which Jesuits and their colleagues operated from historical, geographical, social, and cultural perspectives. The collection poses a question whether there was an essential core of distinctive elements that characterized the way in which Jesuits lived their religious vocation and conducted their various works and how these ways of proceeding were lived out in the various epochs and cultures in which Jesuits worked over four and a half centuries; what changed and adapted itself to different times and situations, and what remained constant, transcending time and place, infusing the apostolic works and lives of Jesuits with the charism at the source of the Society of Jesus’s foundation and development. Thanks to generous support of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College , this volume is available in Open Access.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Robert Aleksander Maryks

Introduction / Robert Aleksander Maryks

Francesco Benci and the Origins of Jesuit Neo-Latin Epic / Paul Gwynne

Exploring the Distinctiveness of Neo-Latin Jesuit Didactic Poetry in Naples: The Case of Nicolò Partenio Giannettasio / Claudia Schindler

Civic Education on Stage: Civic Values and Virtues in the Jesuit Schools of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth / Jolanta Rzegocka

“Ask the Jesuits to Send Verses from Rome”: The Society’s Networks and the European Dissemination of Devotional Music / Daniele V. Filippi

Priestly Violence, Martyrdom, and Jesuits: The Case of Diego de Alfaro (Paraguay, 1639) / Andrew Redden

Colonial Theodicy and the Jesuit Ascetic Ideal in José de Acosta’s Works on Spanish America / Bryan Green

Purple Silk and Black Cotton: Francisco Cabral and the Negotiation of Jesuit Attire in Japan (1570–73) / Linda Zampol D’Ortia

Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s Vida del P. Ignacio de Loyola (1583) and Literary Culture in Early Modern Spain / Rady Roldán-Figueroa

The Distinctiveness of the Society of Jesus’s Mission in Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s Historia ecclesiastica del schisma del reyno de Inglaterra (1588) / Spencer J. Weinreich

Discerning Skills: Psychological Insight at the Core of Jesuit Identity / Cristiano Casalini

Distinctive Contours of Jesuit Enlightenment in France / Jeffrey D. Burson

One Century of Science: The Jesuit Journal Brotéria (1902–2002) / Francisco Malta Romeiras and Henrique Leitão

Bibliography / Robert Aleksander Maryks

Index / Robert Aleksander Maryks.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-31335-4

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004313354 DOI