Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas / edited by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Robert Aleksander Maryks, R.P. Hsia.
"Published for the Institute for Advanced Studies at Boston College."
Series title page: Jesuit studies : modernity through the prism of Jesuit history, volume 14
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Protestantism and early Jesuits / Robert Aleksander Maryks – Part 1. Asia. Introduction / R.P. Hsia -- 2. We are not Jesuits: reassessing relations between Protestantism, French Catholicism, and the Society of Jesus in late Tokugawa to early Showa Japan / Makoto Harris Takao -- Kirishitan veneration of the saints: Jesuit and Dutch witnesses / Haruko Nawata Ward -- Jesuit and Protestant use of vernacular Chinese in accommodation policy / Sophie Ling-chia Wei -- Shaping the anthropological context of the "Salus populi Sinensis" Madonna icon in Xian, China / Hui-Hung Chen -- Jesuit and Protestant encounters in Jiangnan: contest and cooperation in China's lower Yangzi region / Steven Pieragastini -- Protestant and Jesuit encounters in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Delio Mendonca -- Beyond words: missionary grammars and the construction of language in Tamil country / Michelle Zaleski –Part 2. The Americas. Jesuit liminal space in liberal Protestant modernity / Jorge Canizares-Esguerra -- Jose de Acosta, a Spanish Jesuit-Protestant author: print culture, contingency, and deliberate silence in the making of the canon / Jorge Canizares-Esguerra -- Negotiating the confessional divide in Dutch Brazil and the Republic: the case of Manoel de Moraes / Anne B. McGinness -- A French Jesuit parish, without the Jesuits: Grand Bay's Catholic community and institutional durability in British Dominica / Steve Lenik -- "Tis nothing but French poison, all of it": Jesuit and Calvinist missions on the New World frontier / Catherine Balleriaux -- "Americans, you are marked for their prey!" Jesuits and the nineteenth-century nativist impulse / Robert Emmett Curran -- Wars of words: Catholic and Protestant Jesuitism in nineteenth-century America / Steven Mailloux.

"The present volume is a result of an international symposium on the encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas, which was organized by Boston College's Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College in June 2017.In Asia, Protestants encountered a mixed Jesuit legacy: in South Asia, they benefited from pioneering Jesuit ethnographers while contesting their conversions; in Japan, all Christian missionaries who returned after 1853 faced the equation of Japanese nationalism with anti-Jesuit persecution; and in China, Protestants scrambled to catch up to the cultural legacy bequeathed by the earlier Jesuit mission. In the Americas, Protestants presented Jesuits as enemies of liberal modernity, supporters of medieval absolutism yet master manipulators of modern self-fashioning and the printing press. The evidence suggests a far more complicated relationship of both Protestants and Jesuits as co-creators of the bright and dark sides of modernity, including the public sphere, public education, plantation slavery, and colonialism"-- publisher note.

Local access dig.pdf. [Encounters Asia Americas.pdf]

1. Early Jesuit ministries -- 2. "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" : Jesuit ethics before the revolution of probabilism -- 3. "Christian Virtue and Excellence in Ciceroniam Eloquence" : the Jesuit literary renaissance and adoption of probabilism -- 4. The genealogy of Jesuit probabilism -- 5. Probabilism as the spiritual Sodom : Jansenist attack against Jesuit ethics.

"In this 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 Tutiorism' (whereby an individual follows the law rather than the instinct of their own conscience) and 'Probabilism' (which conversely gives priority to the individual's conscience) are examined."
"By integrating concepts of theology, classical humanism and publishing history, this book offers a compelling account of how diverse forces could act upon a religious order to alter the central beliefs it held and promulgated."--Jacket.

Local access dig. pdf. [Maryks-Sanit Cicero-Jesuits.pdf].
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