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Saints or Devils Incarnate? : Studies in Jesuit History.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Jesuit studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 1.Publication details: Brill, 2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004257375
  • 9004257373
  • 1299829937
  • 9781299829930
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Saints or devils incarnate?DDC classification:
  • 271.53 22
LOC classification:
  • BX3706.3 .O43 2013
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Saints or Devils Incarnate? -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- 1. The Historiography of the Society of Jesus: Where Does It Stand Today? -- 2. The Pastoral, Social, Ecclesiastical, Civic, and Cultural Mission of the Society of Jesus -- 3. The Society of Jesus -- 4. Was Ignatius of Loyola a Church Reformer? How to Look at Early Modern Catholicism -- 5. The Ministry to Outsiders: The Jesuits -- 6. Ignatius of Loyola (c.1491-1556) -- 7. Ignatius's Special "Way of Proceeding" -- 8. Early Jesuit Spirituality: Spain and Italy.
Summary: This volume contains fifteen studies by John O'Malley that press forward the trajectory he launched with The First Jesuits (1993). The chapters deal, for instance, with the historigraphy of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits' cultural commitments, the character of Ignatius of Loyola and of Jesuit education.

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This volume contains fifteen studies by John O'Malley that press forward the trajectory he launched with The First Jesuits (1993). The chapters deal, for instance, with the historigraphy of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits' cultural commitments, the character of Ignatius of Loyola and of Jesuit education.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Saints or Devils Incarnate? -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- 1. The Historiography of the Society of Jesus: Where Does It Stand Today? -- 2. The Pastoral, Social, Ecclesiastical, Civic, and Cultural Mission of the Society of Jesus -- 3. The Society of Jesus -- 4. Was Ignatius of Loyola a Church Reformer? How to Look at Early Modern Catholicism -- 5. The Ministry to Outsiders: The Jesuits -- 6. Ignatius of Loyola (c.1491-1556) -- 7. Ignatius's Special "Way of Proceeding" -- 8. Early Jesuit Spirituality: Spain and Italy.