A portrait of Jesuit spirituality examines its differences from other forms of Catholic spirituality, exploring the order's creative tensions between companionship and mission, obedience and learning from experience, and center and periphery in the Church.
"En este libro se presenta una síntesis novedosa de los grandes hitos de la evangelización en Japón. Se relatan en él los orígenes de la labor evangelizador de los misioneros católicos en Asia, después de la llegada de San Francisco Javier a Japón, en 1549, y de sus primeros pas…
"This book is the first biography in 42 years of the priest and educator who became one of the most important political forces in America's Cold War against communism." "Edmund A. Walsh, as dean of Georgetown College and founder in 1919 of its School of Foreign service, is one o…
"Christianity is often praised as an agent of Chinese modernization or damned as a form of cultural and religious imperialism. In both cases, Christianity's foreignness and the social isolation of converts have dominated this debate. This book aims to uncover another story. In t…
"In The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480-1650) Marianne Ritsema van Eck analyses the development of the complex Observant Franciscan engagement with the Holy Land during the early modern period. During these eventful centuries friars of the Franciscan establishme…
In the 17th and 18th centuries Spain and Portugal contested control of the disputed Rio de la Plata borderlands. The Jesuit missions among the Guarani played an important role in regional conflict through the provision of manpower for campaigns and supplies. However, regional co…
"In the 17th and 18th centuries Spain and Portugal contested control of the disputed Rio de la Plata borderlands. The Jesuit missions among the Guarani played an important role in regional conflict through the provision of manpower for campaigns and supplies. However, regional c…
"Disputed Mission casts a fresh glance at the social and cultural laboratories that were Jesuit missions in pre-colonial South India." "Confronted with social and cultural idioms which appeared to them as both strange and familiar, Jesuit missionaries embarked on a titanic, utop…
In "The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews" the author explains how Christians with Jewish ancestry went within less than forty years from having a leading role in the foundation and development of the Society of Jesus to being prohibited from membership in it.