The Jesuit missions to China and Peru, 1570-1610 : expectations and appraisals of expansionism / Ana Carolina Hosne.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [174]-187) and index.

Synopsis:
The Jesuit Missions to China and Peru were, in their different ways, astonishingly successful, with Catholicism establishing deep roots in Peru, and with the Ming emperors in China giving Jesuits a privileged position at the imperial court, from which position, later, they almost brought about the conversion of the Chinese emperor, and thereby potentially all of China, to Roman Catholic Christianity. This book explores how leading Jesuits, Ricci (1552-1610) in China and Acosta (1540-1600) in Peru, adapted Catholic teaching to fit the prevailing religious outlook and practices in the two countries in order to make Catholicism more understandable and palatable to the local population. It examines in detail Catholic theology, the Jesuit approach to mission, and the concepts which underpinned adaptation, showing in the detail of catechisms produced in each of the territories how adaptation worked out in practice. The book concludes by outlining how the relationship between Catholicism and local culture in the two countries developed., The rulers of the overseas empires summoned the Society of Jesus to evangelize their new subjects in the 'New World' which Spain and Portugal shared; this book is about how two different missions, in China and Peru, evolved in the early modern world. From a European perspective, this book is about the way Christianity expanded in the early modern period, craving universalism. In China, Matteo Ricci was so impressed by the influence that the scholar-officials were able to exert on the Ming Emperor himself that he likened them to the philosopher-kings of Plato's Republic. The Jesuits in China were in the hands of the scholar-officials, with the Emperor at the apex, who had the power to decide whether they could stay or not. Meanwhile, in Peru, the Society of Jesus was required to impose Tridentine Catholicism by Philip II, independently of Rome, a task that entailed compliance with the colonial authorities' demands. This book explores how leading Jesuits, Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) in China and José de Acosta (1540-1600) in Peru, envisioned mission projects and reflected them on the catechisms they both composed, with a remarkable power of endurance. It offers a reflection on how the Jesuits conceived and assessed these mission spaces, in which their keen political acumen and a certain taste for power unfolded, playing key roles in envisioning new doctrinal directions and reflecting them in their doctrinal texts.

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The theologian and the empire : a biography of José de Acosta (1540-1600) / by Andrés I. Prieto.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formative Years
1 The Making of a Jesuit (1540–57) 17
1 The Acosta Family 20
2 An Early Vocation 25
3 The Formation of a Jesuit 33
4 A Writer in the Making 39
2 The Young Scholar (1557–71) 42
1 Valladolid and the 1558 Lutheran Repression 45
2 Acosta the Theologian 51
3 The College Years 58
4 The Overseas Vocation 63
Part 2
Peru
3 A Theologian for the New World (1572–74) 75
1 A Troubled Province 79
2 Acosta’s First Tour of the Andes 85
4 The Trial of Francisco de la Cruz (1574–76) 100
1 Angels, Demons, and a New American Church 108
2 The Politics of the Inquisition 116
3 De la Cruz and the Evangelization of Native Andeans 119
4 Rethinking Accommodation 130
5 The Visitor and the Viceroy (1575–78) 133
1 The Problem of the Doctrinas 135
2 An Inquiry into the Spanish Rights to Peru 139
3 Between Idealism and Pragmatism 148
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4 De procuranda indorum salute and the Colonial Project 154
5 Juli 162
6 Labors and Tribulations (1577–81) 168
1 The Provincial at Work 170
2 Plotting the Expansion of the Jesuit Province 174
3 Acosta’s Last Trip through the Andes 179
4 The Battle for San Pablo 185
5 Stamping out Lascasismo 189
7 The Third Lima Council (1582–85) 207
1 The Banning of Mestizos 211
2 Valera, Acosta, and Accommodation 219
3 Acosta and the Third Council of Lima 227
4 Evangelization and the Creation of a Colonial Self 231
Part 3
Between Spain and Rome
8 Writing the Historia natural y moral de las Indias (1584–89) 251
1 Acosta’s Last Years in the Americas 254
2 Sánchez, Acosta, and Iberian Imperialism in Asia 259
3 From De natura novi orbis to the Historia natural y moral de
las Indias 276
4 The Historia natural y moral and the De auxiliis Controversy 281
9 The Memorialista Crisis (1588–91) 295
1 A Shifting Political Landscape 296
2 The Politics of the Spanish Inquisition 303
3 Acosta and Sánchez in the Court of Philip II 310
4 Acosta’s First Trip to Rome 315
5 Acosta, Visitor 323
10 The Fifth General Congregation (1591–1600) 331
1 The Acosta Brothers’ Gambit 333
2 The Fifth General Congregation 344
3 The Final Years 363
Epilogue 369
Bibliography 373
Index

"Although Jesuit contributions to the European expansion in the early modern period have attracted considerable scholarly interest, the legacy of José de Acosta (1540-1600) is still defined by his contributions to natural history. The Theologian and the Empire presents a new biography of Acosta, focused on his participation in colonial and imperial politics. The most important Jesuit active in the Americas in the sixteenth century, Acosta was fundamentally a political operator. His actions on both sides of the Atlantic were instrumental in the configuration that Peruvian colonial life and the Jesuit order acquired entering the seventeenth century"-- Provided by publisher.

isbn 978-90-04-46204-5 (hardback)
isbn 978-90-04-68086-9 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004680869

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