Saints or devils incarnate? : studies in Jesuit history / by John W. O'Malley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Malley, John W.

Series:

Jesuit Studies 1.

Jesuit studies : modernity through the prism of Jesuit history, 2214-3289 ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesuits--History.

Jesuits.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Almost from the moment the Jesuits were founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola and his companions they suffered from misunderstanding, some positive, much of it negative. Myth and misinformation abounded. The Society of Jesus, the Jesuits' official name, was a society of saints or of devils incarnate. Not until the mid-twentieth century did historians begin to dispel some of the myths, but only with John O'Malley's The First Jesuits (1993) did a new era open in the study of the Society. Since then the Jesuits have attracted great attention from scholars of all disciplines on an international basis. O'Malley has continued to write about Saint Ignatius and the subsequent history of the Jesuits. This volume contains a number of such studies and presses forward the trajectory he launched two decades ago with his book.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / John W. O’Malley

The Historiography of the Society of Jesus: Where Does It Stand Today? / John W. O’Malley

The Pastoral, Social, Ecclesiastical, Civic, and Cultural Mission of the Society of Jesus / John W. O’Malley

The Society of Jesus / John W. O’Malley

Was Ignatius of Loyola a Church Reformer? How to Look at Early Modern Catholicism / John W. O’Malley

The Ministry to Outsiders: The Jesuits / John W. O’Malley

Ignatius of Loyola (c.1491–1556) / John W. O’Malley

Ignatius’s Special “Way of Proceeding” / John W. O’Malley

Early Jesuit Spirituality: Spain and Italy / John W. O’Malley

To Travel to Any Part of the World: Jerónimo Nadal and the Jesuit Vocation / John W. O’Malley

Some Distinctive Characteristics of Jesuit Spirituality in the Sixteenth Century / John W. O’Malley

Renaissance Humanism and the Religious Culture of the First Jesuits / John W. O’Malley

How the First Jesuits Became Involved in Education / John W. O’Malley

Mission and the Early Jesuits / John W. O’Malley

Saint Ignatius and the Cultural Mission of the Society of Jesus / John W. O’Malley

The Many Lives of Ignatius of Loyola: Future Saint / John W. O’Malley

Index / John W. O’Malley.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

857712117

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004257375 DOI