1st Edition
Saint Cicero and the Jesuits The Influence of the Liberal Arts on the Adoption of Moral Probabilism
By Robert Aleksander Maryks
Copyright 2008
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this commanding study, Dr Maryks offers a detailed analysis of early modern Jesuit confessional manuals to explore the order's shifting attitudes to confession and conscience. Drawing on his census of Jesuit penitential literature published between 1554 and 1650, he traces in these works a subtly shifting theology influenced by both theology and classical humanism. In particular, the roles of... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Early Jesuit Ministries; Chapter 2 “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?”; Chapter 3 “Christian Virtue and Excellence in Ciceronian Eloquence”; Chapter 4 The Genealogy of Jesuit Probabilism; Chapter 5 Probabilism as the Spiritual Sodom; Chapter 101 Conclusion;
Biography
Robert Aleksander Maryks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the City University of New York.
’To conclude with, Maryks’s is a must-read book for intellectual historians, historians of moral theology, and researchers in the field of Jesuit studies.’ Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses ’This book is richly documented and meticulous. ... Maryks guides us through complex Latin treatises that few readers today would be able to disentangle.’ Sixteenth Century Journal
