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

Author/creator O'Malley, John W.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Lieden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Descriptionxiii, 312 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Series Jesuit studies, modernity through the prism of Jesuit history. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents The historiography of the Society of Jesus: where does it stand today? -- The pastoral, social, ecclesiastical, civic, and cultural mission of the Society of Jesus -- The Society of Jesus -- Was Ignatius of Loyola a church reformer? How to look at early modern Catholicism -- The ministry to outsiders: the Jesuits -- Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556) -- Ignatius's special "way of proceeding" -- Early Jesuit spirituality: Spain and Italy -- To travel to any part of the world: Jerónimo Nadal and the Jesuit vocation -- Some distinctive characteristics of Jesuit spirituality in the sixteenth century -- Renaissance humanism and the religious culture of the first Jesuits -- How the first Jesuits became involved in education -- Mission and the early Jesuits -- Saint Ignatius and the cultural mission of the Society of Jesus -- The many lives of Ignatius of Loyola: future saint.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2013024395
ISBN9789004255340 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9004255346 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9004257373 (e-book)
ISBN9789004257375 (e-book)

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Joyner General Stacks BX3706.3 .O43 2013 ✔ Available Place Hold