Bartolomé de las Casas, OP : history, philosophy, and theology in the age of European expansion / edited by David Thomas Orique, O.P. and Rady Roldán-Figueroa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Orique, David Thomas, O.P., 1959- editor.

Roldán-Figueroa, Rady, editor.

Series:

Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 189.

Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; Volume 189

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians, Treatment of--Latin America.

Indians, Treatment of.

Humanism--Latin America.

Humanism.

Missionaries--America--Biography.

Missionaries.

Missionaries--Spain--Biography.

Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566--Philosophy.

Casas, Bartolomé de las.

Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566--Political and social views.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 485 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P.: History, Philosophy, and Theology in the Age of European Expansion marks a critical point in Lascasian scholarship. The result of the collaborative work of seventeen prominent scholars, contributions span the fields of history, Latin American studies, literary criticism, philosophy and theology. The volume offers to specialists and non-specialists alike access to a rich and thoughtful overview of nascent colonial Latin American and early modern Iberian studies in a single text. Contributors: Rolena Adorno; Matthew Restall; David Thomas Orique, O.P.; Rady Roldán-Figueroa; Carlos A. Jáuregui; David Solodkow; Alicia Mayer; Claus Dierksmeier; Daniel R. Brunstetter; Víctor Zorrilla; Luis Fernando Restrepo; David Lantigua; Ramón Darío Valdivia Giménez; Eyda M. Merediz; Laura Dierksmeier; Guillaume Candela, and Armando Lampe.

Contents:

Introduction: Three Waves of Lascasian Scholarship / David Thomas Orique and Rady Roldán-Figueroa

Las Casas in the Context of European Expansion

The Not-So-Brief Story of the Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias / Rolena Adorno

“There Was a Time When We Were Friends”: Las Casas and Cortés as Monstrous Doubles of the Conquest Era / Matthew Restall

One Hell-of-a Text: Remedial Components of Bartolomé de las Casas’s Confesionario / David Thomas Orique

Bartolomé de las Casas, His Theory of the Power of Bishops, and the Early Transatlantic Episcopacy / Rady Roldán-Figueroa

Biopolitics and the Farming (of) Life in Bartolomé de las Casas / Carlos A. Jáuregui and David Solodkow

Controversial Cases on Humanitarian Doctrines: Bartolomé de las Casas’s Intellectual Legacy among New England Puritans / Alicia Mayer

Las Casas: Law and Philosophy

Globalization Ethics in the Sixteenth Century? Why We Should Re-Read Francisco de Vitoria / Claus Dierksmeier

Las Casas and the Concept of Just War / Daniel R. Brunstetter

Just War in Las Casas’s Tratado de las doce dudas / Víctor Zorrilla

The Colonial Face-to-Face and the Human Condition: Writing and Subjectivity in Bartolomé de las Casas / Luis Fernando Restrepo

Religion within the Limits of Natural Reason: the Case of Human Sacrifice / David Lantigua

Reason, Providence, and Testimony in the Conversion of Bartolomé de Las Casas: a Theological Reading / Ramón Darío Valdivia Giménez

Las Casas and Peripheral Catholicism

Bartolomé de las Casas in the Canary Islands / Eyda M. Merediz

The Narrower the Divide, the Deeper the Trench: Bartolomé de las Casas and Toribio de Motolinía / Laura Dierksmeier

Influences of the Lascasian Discourse in Paraguay (Sixteenth Century): the Itinerary of Martín González / Guillaume Candela

Las Casas and African Slavery in the Caribbean: a Third Conversion / Armando Lampe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-38766-8

90-04-36973-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004387669 DOI