Jesuit political thought : the Society of Jesus and the state, c. 1540-1640 / Harro Hopfl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Höpfl, Harro, author.

Series:

Ideas in context ; 70.

Ideas in context ; 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesuits--History--16th century.

Jesuits.

Jesuits--History--17th century.

Church and state--Catholic Church--History--16th century.

Church and state.

Church and state--Catholic Church--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 406 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Harro Höpfl presents here a full-length study of the single most influential organized group of scholars and pamphleteers in early modern Europe (1540-1630), namely the Jesuits. He explores the academic and political controversies in which they were engaged in and their contribution to academic discourse around ideas of 'the state' and 'politics'. He pays particular attention to their actual teaching concerning doctrines for whose menacing practical implications Jesuits generally were vilified: notably tyrannicide, the papal power to depose rulers, the legitimacy of 'Machiavellian' policies in dealing with heretics and the justifiability of breaking faith with heretics. Höpfl further explores the paradox of the Jesuits' political activities being at once the subject of conspiratorial fantasies but at the same time being widely acknowledged as among the foremost intellects of their time, with their thought freely cited and appropriated. This is an important work of scholarship.

Contents:

1. character of the society of Jesus

2. society's organisational ideas

3. society and political matters

4. church, the society, and heresy

5. confrontation with reason of state

6. Reason of state and religious uniformity

7. Jesuit reason of state and fides

8. Reason of state, prudence, and the academic curriculum

9. theory of political authority

10. Limited government, compacts, and states of nature

11. theory of law

12. common good and individual rights

13. Tyrannicide, the oath of allegiance controversy, and the assassination of Henri IV

14. papal potestas indirecta.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-398) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-15047-7

1-280-51616-X

0-511-21401-4

0-511-21580-0

0-511-21043-4

0-511-31485-X

0-511-49056-9

0-511-21220-8

OCLC:

171138863