Jesuits : a multibiography
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Jesuits : a multibiography
（A Cornelia and Michael Bessie Book）
Counterpoint, c1995
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Jésuites : une multibiographie
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 523-529) and index
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Jesuits traces the growth of the Society of Jesus into Christendoms most powerful order. This multibiography is history with a human face, a story of remarkable individuals who flourished and struggled through changing times into the modern age. In this magisterial account, Jean Lacouture portrays the sweep of five hundred years of world history, from the dungeons of the Vatican to the jungles of South America to the royal courts of Europe and Asia. Jesuits: A Multibiography is history with a human face, the fascinating tales of men of the spirit who participated in the actions and passions of the modern world, a world bursting its seams. Be all things to all men, said the founder of the Jesuits, Ignatius of Loyola, to his followers. Go and set the world ablaze! The often picaresque story takes us to the Paris of Rabelais, where Ignatius, with a handful of his fellow students, formed what would become the Society of Jesus. We follow Francis Xavier to Japan and Matteo Ricci to China.
We watch as the Society grows into Christendom's most powerful order, and as the Black Legend of a calculating, Machiavellian Jesuitry leads to its abolition in 1773 (it was restored forty years later). We see the great characters of history and culturePascal, Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Catherine the Greatplay their parts. One of Jean Lacouture's most poignant portraits is of the twentieth century's most famous and beloved Jesuit, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a scientist-priest whose humanistic conclusions put him at odds with the Church. Lacouture's wide-ranging narrative illuminates Pope John XXIII's reforms and the Jesuit-inspired liberation theology movements in Central and South America. With the papacy of John Paul II, a riveting drama unfolds as the Jesuits are brought under new constraints.
Table of Contents
- The Vagabond and the Inquisitor
- The Scholars from Montmartre
- Perinde ac Cadaver
- Francis Xavier, Orientalist
- No Women Need Apply
- The Jews and the Jesuits
- Li Mateou, the Clock, and the Master of Heaven
- Utopia and the Guarani Republic
- Expelled Like Dogs
- Wandering in the Desert
- The Second Company
- The Black Legend
- Incidents at Vichy
- Obedience and Teilhard
- The Exorcist and the Vatican
- Justice and Pedro Arrupe
- The Third Company?
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