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Book SynopsisFr. Luis Martín García was superior general of the Society of Jesus during one of the most fractious periods in western history, from 1892 to his death in 1906. Fortunately for both the church and his order, he was endowed with remarkable gifts of mind and spirit. He was also troubled with personal challenges that he had to face almost entirely on his own. As an aid, he kept a memoir, prodigious in both size and content, to be published posthumously. The memoir appeared in a critical Spanish edition in 1988. In this present book, David Schultenover provides a condensed English version of it along with an interpretation that engages the question, why would a Jesuit superior general leave to posterity such a candid memoir? The subtitle “Showing Up” provides a clue.Trade Review“David Schultenover, S.J.’s monumental study of the Jesuit superior general Luis Martín (1846–1906) leaves all students of modern Jesuit, Catholic, and Spanish history in his debt. […] This archival and editorial triumph will inform the work of the next generation of historians of Spanish Catholicism, at a minimum, but should influence scholars of the modern Catholic world more generally.” John T. McGreevy, University of Notre Dame. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022), pp. 299–302. “By any measure, this work is monumental. […] It is an invaluable resource for historians of nineteenth-century Spain, modernization and laicism, church-state conflict, religion and religious life, mentalities and emotions.” Stephen Schloesser, Loyola University Chicago. In: Church History, 2022.Table of Contents Acknowledgments  List of Abbreviations  Introduction: “Showing Up” Period 1. Formation, 1846–78: Melgar, Burgos, Loyola, Vals, Poyanne  1 Childhood, 1846–55  2 Latin School, 1855–58  3 Philosophy, 1858–61  4 Theology, 1861–64  5 Luis Martín’s Vocation to the Society of Jesus  6 Novitiate, Year 1, 1864–65  7 Novitiate, Year 2, 1865–66  8 Juniorate, 1866–68  9 Philosophy, 1868–70   1 First Year of Philosophy—Vals, France, 1868–69   2 Second Year of Philosophy—Poyanne, France, 1869–70  10 Regency: professor of Rhetoric, 1870–73   1 Academic Year 1, 1870–71   2 Academic Year 2, 1871–72   3 Academic Year 3, 1872–73  11 Study of Theology, 1873–77   1 First and Second Years of Theology, 1873–75   2 Third Year of Theology, 1875–76   3 Fourth Year of Theology, 1876–77  12 Third Probation (Tertianship), 1877–78 Period 2. Professor and Superior, 1878–86: Poyanne, Salamanca, Bilbao  13 Professor of Theology, 1878–80   1 First Year, 1878–79   2 Second Year, 1879–80  14 Seminary Rector in Salamanca: Year 1, 1880–81  15 Seminary Rector in Salamanca: year 2, 1881–82  16 Seminary Rector in Salamanca: year 3, 1882–83.Semester 1, Centenary of Saint Teresa  17 Seminary Rector in Salamanca: year 3, 1882–83.Semester 2  18 Seminary Rector in Salamanca: year 4, 1883–84  19 Seminary Rector in Salamanca: year 5, 1884–85  20 Bilbao: director of theMessenger, 1885–86  21 Bilbao: superior in Deusto, Trip to Italy, 1886 Period 3. Provincialate, 1886–91: Valladolid  22 Provincialate: year 1, December 1886–July 1887  23 Provincialate: year 1, July to December 1887  24 Provincialate: year 2, January to June 1888  25 Provincialate: year 2, July to September 1888  26 Provincialate: works in Loyola, Deusto, Bilbao, 1887–88  27 Provincialate: year 3, January to June 1889  28 Provincialate: year 3, Semester 2, 1889  29 The Residence of Santander and the College of Gijón, 1887–89  30 The Colleges of Burgos, Tudela, Valladolid, 1868–90  31 Provincialate: year 4, Semester 1, 1890, Jesuits Meddling in Politics  32 Provincialate: final Year, April 1890 to April 1891  33 Founding the Seminary of Comillas, 1878–91 Period 4. 1891–92: Substitutus, Vicar General, General Congregation 24  34 Substitutus in Jesuit Curia, Fiesole, 1891  35 Vicar General, 1892  36 Preparation for General Congregation 24, 1892  37 Trip to Loyola for General Congregation 24, 1892  38 General Congregation 24: first Sessions, September 23–28, 1892  39 Election of Luis Martín as the Twenty-Fourth Superior General, October 2, 1892  40 Felicitations on the Election  41 General Congregation 24:other Elections  42 General Congregation 24:discussion of the First Postulata  43 General Congregation 24:postulata on Religious Discipline  44 General Congregation 24:decree on Poverty  45 General Congregation 24: decree on Studies  46 General Congregation 24: conclusion Period 5. Generalate, 1892–1906  47 Procurators Congregations, 1896, 1899, 1902   1 Procurators Congregation of 1896   2 Procurators Congregation of 1899    2.1 First Address of Luis Martín to the Procurators Congregation of 1899    2.2 Second Address of Luis Martín to the Procurators Congregation of 1899   3 Procurators Congregation of 1902    3.1 First Address of Luis Martín to the Procurators Congregation of 1902    3.2 Second Address of Luis Martín to the Procurators of 1902  48 Problems in Spain: salamanca, 1894  49 Problems in Spain: father Mir, 1896  50 Spanish Politics   1 Bishop Cámara and the Jesuits of Salamanca   2 Audience with the Pope   3 Interviews with the Spanish Ambassador to the Holy See   4 Correspondence with Cánovas del Castillo   5 Visits of Don Carlos and Don Jaime de Borbón   6 The Integrist Split and Its Repercussions in the Society   7 The 1894 Pilgrimage of Laborers   8 The Complaints of Segismundo Moret and Cardinal Rampolla   9 The Proposed Journal of Fr. Francisco de Paula Garzón   10 The Situation in the Three Spanish Provinces during 1895–97   11 The Attacks of Pey y Ordeix in El urbión   12 New Political Nuances at the End of the Century   13 Fr. Alarcón and El Mensajero   14 Opinions and Actions of Luis Martín in the Carlism-Integrism Polemic   15 New Siege of the Society of Jesus by Nocedal, 1900   16 The Complaints of Cardinal Cascajares   17 The Opening of Electra and Its Consequences   18 The Situation in Spain at the Beginning of the New Century    18.1 Persecution of the Religious Orders    18.2 A New Attack by Pey y Ordeix    18.3 Relations with the Carlist Royal Family    18.4 Integrism and the Unión de los Católicos     18.4.1 Attempts to Found the Unión Católica in 1902     18.4.2 The Tensions between Razón y fe and El Mensajero and Pius X’s Letter to the Bishop of Madrid (1905–6)     18.4.3 El Siglo futuro Is Allowed to Be Received in the Houses of the Society  51 The War of Cuba and the Philippines, 1895–98   1 Interviews with Very Reverend Father General  52 Luis Martín’s Account of His Final Illness, 1905  Epilogue  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisThis cultural and institutional history explores the careers of men who served in Rome’s Office of Ceremonies during the papal court’s growth period (c.1466–1528), in order to understand how the smallest papal college stands as a model of early modern curial advancement. The experiences and textual contributions of three ceremonialists, Agostino Patrizi, Johann Burchard, and Paris de’ Grassi, show diverse strategies and origins, but similar concerns and achievements. In a period of heightened competition and increasing pressure for regularization and reform, the Office’s professionalization and their combined office-holding, networks, and textual production, reveal how early modern curialists got ahead. This study shows the complexity of successful advancement strategies that were cultivated over decades and stretched far beyond papal support.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations List of Pontificates, 1420–1605 A Note on Names Introduction  1 The Papal Court: Both Foreign and Familiar  2 Tracing Advancement in the Office of Ceremonies  3 The Development of Masters of Ceremonies and Politica Festiva  4 Onwards 1 The Curia and the Office of Ceremonies  1 Historiographical Traces  2 Physical Traces 2 The Development of the Office of Ceremonies  1 The Work and Structure of the Office of Ceremonies before 1466  2 The Work and Structure of the Office of Ceremonies after 1466  3 The Economics of Office-Holding  4 Provision to Office: It’s Who You Know  5 Professionalizing by Decree: Pastoralis officii (1513) and Santi Celso and Giuliano 3 The Office-Holders: Origins and Strategies  1 Agostino Patrizi, 1466–1488  2 Johann Burchard, 1483–†1506  3 Paris de’ Grassi, 1504–†1528  4 Conclusion 4 The Office-Holder’s Great Goal: A Bishopric  1 Papal Patronage  2 Agostino Patrizi, Bishop of Pienza and Montalcino (1484–†1495)  3 Johann Burchard, Bishop of Orte and Civita Castellana (1503–†1506)  4 Paris de’ Grassi, Bishop of Pesaro (1513–†1528)  5 Conclusion 5 Tools of the Profession: Ceremonial Diaries and Guides  1 The Diaries as Signs of Professionalization  2 The Diaries as Commonplace Books  3 Where Did All the Diaries Go?  4 Diaries before 1483: Lost or Fragmentary  5 Codifying Practice: Liber Pontificalis (1485) and Caeremoniale Romanum (1488)  6 Johann Burchard’s Liber Notarum  7 Paris de’ Grassi: Continuing the Tradition  8 Diaries after 1521: Continuity and Curation  9 Conclusion 6 Curial Authors  1 Agostino Patrizi: Humanist and Ceremonialist  2 Johann Burchard: Collaborator and Benchmark  3 Paris de’ Grassi: Advocate and Revisionary  4 Conclusion 7 Clerical Ambition in the Papal Chapel  1 Preaching as a Part of Career Advancement  2 Sermons in the Papal Chapel  3 Preachers as Curialists  4 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisConverso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity in large numbers and usually under duress in late Medieval Spain. The Converso and Morisco Studies series examines the implications of these mass conversions for the converts themselves, for their heirs (also referred to as Conversos and Moriscos) and for Medieval and Modern Spanish culture. As the essays in this collection attest, the study of the Converso and Morisco phenomena is not only important for those scholars focusing on Spanish society and culture, but for all academics interested in questions of identity, Otherness, nationalism, religious intolerance and the challenges of modernity. Contributors: Luis F. Bernabé Pons, Michel Boeglin, Stephanie M. Cavanaugh, William P. Childers, Carlos Gilly, Kevin Ingram, Nicola Jennings, Patrick J. O’Banion, Francisco Javier Perea Siller, Mohamed Saadan, and Enrique Soria Mesa.Trade Review“An important touchstone for scholars working on conversion and religious identity in the Iberian world.” Karoline P. Cook, Royal Holloway, University of London. In: Church History, Vol. 91, No. 4 (December 2022), pp. 921–923.Table of ContentsIntroduction  Kevin Ingram 1 The Council of Basel’s “De Neophytis” Decree as Immediate Cause of and Permanent Antidote to the Racial Purity Statutes  Carlos Gilly 2 Reforming the Church and Re-Framing Identity: Converso Prelates and Artistic Patronage in Fifteenth Century Castile  Nicola Jennings 3 Genealogy, Jewish Conversos, and Urban Conflict in Golden Age Spain. The Linajudos  Enrique Soria Mesa 4 Doctor Constantino’s Doctrina Cristiana: Divine Compassion and True Faith in the Work of a Sixteenth Century Converso Author  Michel Boeglin 5 Juan de Malara’s New-Christian Humanism  Kevin Ingram 6 The Converso Issue and Early Modern Spanish Historiography  Kevin Ingram 7 The Hebrew Bible, Jewish Tradition and the Redefinition of Catholicism in the Sixteenth Century  Francisco Javier Perea Siller 8 The Morisco in Mateo Alemán’s Ozmín and Daraja  Mohamed Saadan 9 Román’s Garden: Places, Spaces, and Religious Practice among the Moriscos of Deza  Patrick J. O’Banion 10 Morisco Double Resistance  William P. Childers 11 The Moriscos and the Christian Spirituality of Their Era  Luis F. Bernabé Pons 12 Serán Siempre Moros? Assessing Conversion During the Expulsion of the Moriscos  Stephanie M. Cavanaugh Index

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Book SynopsisAs a key figure in baroque Rome, Sforza Pallavicino embodies many of the apparent tensions and contradictions of his era: a man of the church deeply involved in the new science, a nobleman and courtier drawn to ascetism and theology, a controversial polemicist involved in poetry and the arts. This volume collects essays by specialists in the fields and disciplines that cover Pallavicino’s activities as a scholar, author and Jesuit, and situate him within the Roman cultural, political and social elite of his times. Through the figure of Pallavicino, an image of baroque Rome emerges that challenges historical periodisations and disciplinary boundaries. Contributors: Silvia Apollonio, Stefan Bauer, Eraldo Bellini, Chiara Catalano, Maarten Delbeke, Maria Pia Donato, Federica Favino, Irene Fosi, Sven K. Knebel, Alessandro Metlica, Anselm Ramelow, Pietro Giulio Riga, and Jon R. Snyder.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Note on the Editor Notes on the Contributors Abbreviations Note on the Translations 1 Sforza Pallavicino: A Jesuit Life in Baroque Rome  Maarten Delbeke 2 City, Church, and Court: Roman Culture in the Age of Sforza Pallavicino  Maria Pia Donato 3 ‘Before the Explosion of the Novatores’ Ideas’: Sforza Pallavicino Lincean  Federica Favino 4 ‘The Great Friendship that Exists between Us’: The Correspondence between Sforza Pallavicino and Fabio Chigi (1629–1651)  Irene Fosi 5 The Challenge of the Poem: The Classicism of I fasti sacri  Silvia Apollonio 6 The ‘Paths of Parnassus’ in the Literary Thinking of Sforza Pallavicino  Pietro Giulio Riga 7 Language and Idiom in Sforza Pallavicino’s Trattato dello stile e del dialogo  Eraldo Bellini 8 ‘With Ultramarine Hues’: Sforza Pallavicino and Baroque Poetics  Jon R. Snyder 9 Pallavicino the Optimist  Sven K. Knebel 10 Pallavicino’s God in Part and Whole  Anselm Ramelow 11 Sforza Pallavicino and the Condemnation of Jansenius’s Five Propositions  Chiara Catalano 12 Writing the History of the Council of Trent  Stefan Bauer 13 Intellect and Imagination in Pallavicino’s Arte della perfezion cristiana: A Close Reading  Alessandro Metlica Bibliography Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisEstablished in 1638 in a vast Amazonian territory that today encompasses border areas of Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, the missions of Maynas were one of the Society of Jesus’s main enterprises in Spanish America. Jesuit writings provide a unique insight into the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century encounters between Europeans and indigenous peoples. In effect, they shed light on how native Amazonians appropriated elements of Christian religiosity and Iberian urban culture. This book is not only about how indigenous populations experienced life in missions. It is above all a study of how natives actively engaged with the practices and ideas of settlement and religiosity that the Jesuits transmitted.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1 Images of Natives  1 “Friendly” and “Barbaric” Indians  2 Settlers, Missionaries, and Imagined Indians  3 Encomenderos and Images of Natives 2 Images of the Devil  1 The Devil in Amazonia  2 The Devil’s Physical Presence  3 Shamans and the Devil 3 Missionary Entradas and Ethnic Processes  1 Missionary Entradas and Punitive Expeditions  2 Modus Operandi  3 Parcialidades and Ethnicities 4 Territorial Disputes and the Financing of the Missionary Enterprise  1 On the Frontiers of the Real Patronato  2 Origins of the Resources  3 Procurators, Martyrs, and Territorial Possession  4 The Missionaries’ Annual Synod  5 The Trade in Mission Products  6 The Missionary Shortage 5 Between Captivity and Conversion: Spanish Jesuits, Portuguese Carmelites, and Indigenous Peoples  1 Carmelites  2 War Troops and Ransoming Troops  3 Ransoming Troops and the Carmelites  4 The Rhetoric of Conquest and Indigenous Agency 6 Mediators of the Sacred: Missionaries’ Indigenous Auxiliaries  1 Cabildantes and fiscales de doctrina  2 Competitive Sociability  3 Fault and Correction  4 Reversibility and Reframing 7 “A Veritable Jungle of Languages”: Jesuits, Language Policy, and Cultural Translation  1 Challenges Involved in Learning  2 The Interpreters  3 Aspects of Language Policy  4 Vocabularies and Catechisms  5 The Translation of Christian Doctrine 8 Conversions  1 Jesuits and Shamans  2 Catechesis and Mass in the Daily Life of Missions  3 Forms of Appropriating Catholic Festivals and Devotions  4 Ambiguities Surrounding the Sacraments  5 Civil Customs and Religious Rites Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhile belief in God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is at the very core of the Christian faith, the significance of the Spirit in particular is sometimes overlooked in faith practice and theological reflection, resulting in what theologians call Geistvergessenheit. In this context, Lumen Gentium, one of the most important documents of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), is usually praised for its pneumatological renewal. The current volume, however, argues that this renewal is no more than modest. The Holy Spirit is still conceived of predominantly as an adjunct to Christ. To substantiate that claim, Jos Moons has developed a novel method of close reading on the basis of which he compares Lumen gentium’s conception of the Spirit to that of Mystici corporis (1943). He also analyses the redaction-historical development of the former and concludes with a plea to envisage the Spirit more boldly: as actively guiding the church, especially by means of the sensus fidelium, its charisms and the discernment of spirits.Trade Review"This volume makes a notable contribution to the ongoing study of the Second Vatican Council. It is essential reading for anyone interested in gaining a comprehensive understanding of contemporary (official) Catholic Pneumatology, not only in its conciliar past, but also where it might well be heading in a near, more synodal, future.", J.Stayne, in: Ephemerides Theologicae Lovaniensis, Volume 99, Issue 1 (2023). "With its careful articulation of methodological and theological issues, this book will be useful for both students at all levels of theological education, as well as seasoned academic scholars. They will welcome its finely nuanced approach to the pneumatology of Lumen Gentium and its ongoing agenda." - Ormond Rush, Australian Catholic University, in: Louvain Studies, Volume 45, Issue 2 (2022). "[I]t is meticulously researched, solidly argued and in the last chapter a forward-looking work. It is not only of interest to catholic theologians focusing on ecclesiology and pneumatology." - Jean-Daniel Plüss, European Pentecostal Charistmatic Research Association, Switzerland, in: Pneuma Volume 44, Issue 3-4 (2022).Table of ContentsAbbreviations General Introduction  1 Geistvergessenheit  2 Renewal: A Contentious Issue  3 Renewal: Further Clarifications  4 Close Reading: A Method  5 Structure part 1: The Holy Spirit according to Mystici Corporis 1 The Ecclesiological and Pneumatological Context of Mystici Corporis  1.1 Ecclesiological Context  1.2 Structure and Ecclesiology  1.3 Pneumatological Context: Michael Schmaus, Sebastiaan Tromp, Émile Mersch 2 The Pneumatology of Mystici Corporis  A Close Reading  2.1 Structure of the Text  2.2 Theological Content  2.3 Argumentative Function  2.4 Conclusion part 2: The Holy Spirit according to Lumen Gentium 3 The Redaction History and Ecclesiology of Lumen Gentium  3.1 Redaction History: A Play in Six Acts  3.2 Ecclesiology: The Church in Eight Parts  3.3 Conclusion 4 The Pneumatology of Lumen Gentium  A Close Reading  4.1 Structure of the Text  4.2 Theological Content  4.3 Argumentative Function  4.4 Conclusion part 3: The Pneumatological Renewal of  Lumen Gentium 5 From Mystici Corporis to Lumen Gentium  5.1 Similarities between Mystici Corporis and Lumen Gentium  5.2 Pneumatological Renewal  5.3 ‘Deliberate Pneumatological Change for the Better’? 6 The Redaction History of Lumen Gentium 4  6.1 Three Motives for Pneumatological Renewal  6.2 The Holy Spirit according to Lumen Gentium 4  6.3 The Introduction of Lumen Gentium 4  6.4 Lumen Gentium 4 as a Whole  6.5 Lumen Gentium 4 per Sentence  6.6 General Conclusion 7 The Redaction History of Lumen Gentium 48  7.1 The Holy Spirit according to Lumen Gentium 48  7.2 The Development of Chapter Seven  7.3 The Pneumatological Development of Lumen Gentium 48  7.4 General Conclusion 8 The Pneumatological Renewal of Lumen Gentium 9 General Conclusion: Beyond the Council  Three Requirements for Further Pneumatological Renewal  9.1 A Renewed Pneumatology  9.2 A ‘Receptive’ Church  9.3 Advancing Pneumatological Topics: Charisms, Sensus Fidelium and Discernment of Spirits  9.4 Conclusion Summary Bibliography Index of Persons Index of (Selected) Subjects

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Book Synopsis“The future of the Church is in Asia.” (Pope Francis to the Philippine Cardinal Tagle.) Asian Catholic bishops have taken up this challenge since 1970; they show how the Asian Church navigates itself in the midst of Asian religious and cultural plurality. An image of a harmonious, dialogical and inclusive church with its wayfarer’s theology emerges in the theological thought of Asian bishops. This book also shows that the Asian Catholic Church is a lively and vibrant communion of local Churches, whose fresh and inspiring theological thought should be studied and welcomed outside of Asia as well.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1 The Search for a New Identity – The 1970 Asian Bishops’ Meeting as the Beginning of the FABC  2 Features of the Development of Contextual Theologies  3 A Few Pioneering Asian Catholic Contextual Theologians  4 Task of This Study and Its Method and Sources  5 Motivation of This Study and Earlier Research on the FABC’s Theology 2 Asian Contexts Challenge the Christian Gospel in Asia  1 Towards Being Asian  2 Harmony as a Major Element of an Asian Worldview 3 Towards an Asian Understanding of Truth  1 Asian Truth: Universal, Practical, and Non-exclusivist  2 Dialogue as a Means towards a Better Understanding of Truth  3 The Asian Wayfarer on the Way towards Truth  4 The FABC’s Wayfaring Theology Challenges Traditional Understanding of Church’s Tradition 4 The FABC’s Encounter with Asian Contextual Realities  1 Word of God/Logos spermatikos as a Bridge-Builder between the Universal and the Local  2 The FABC in Dialogue with Asian Religions  3 The FABC in Dialogue with Asian Cultures  4 The FABC in Dialogue with Asian Socio-Political Realities (the Poor)  5 The Question of Sin with Regard to Asian Contextual Realities  6 Logos, Christ, and the Spirit 5 The Local Church in Service of Asian Peoples  1 Searching for Asian Faces of Jesus  2 An Asian Church with an Asian Face of Jesus: What Kind of Community, What Kind of Mission?  3 A Theological Methodology Compatible with Asia 6 Postscript: The FABC during the Pontificate of Pope Francis 7 Conclusions: The Journey Continues  1 Conclusion Based on the Postscript Chapter Bibliography Author Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisIn Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with a group of local lay elites identified by their profession as catechists, chose Tamil poetry as the social and political language of Catholicism in eighteenth-century South India. Trento analyzes a corpus of Tamil grammars and poems, chiefly Beschi’s Tēmpāvaṇi, alongside archival documents to show how, by presenting themselves as poets and intellectuals, Catholic elites gained a persuasive voice as well as entrance into the learned society of the Tamil country and its networks of patronage. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 840879.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations Notes to Translation and Transliteration Introduction: Catholic Literary Practices in Eighteenth-Century South India  1 Genealogies of Tamil Catholicism  2 Microstoria and the Global in the Local  3 The Beginnings of Catholic Literature in Tamil  4 The Making of an Archive  5 Chapter Outline and Threads across the Chapters Part 1 Spiritual Institutions 1 Spiritual Exercises for Tamil Saints  1 Being a Catechist: Preaching and Literature  2 Being a Catechist: Caste and Profession  3 Bringing the Spiritual Exercises to the Mission  4 Spiritual Retreats between Italy and India  5 Missionary Strategies and Tamil Locations 2 Tamil Manuals for Catholic Selves  1 Creating a Catholic Self: The Ñāṉamuyaṟci  2 Disciplining the Catholic Self: The Vētiyaroḻukkam  3 The Dangers of a Self in Transition  4 The Catholic Self and Its Other: The Vētaviḷakkam  5 Conclusions: Catholic Selves, Dangers and Discipline Part 2 Rhetorical Education 3 Catholic Poetics and Politics of Space  1 Jesuit Humanism and Devotion  2 Kaveri Delta Politics  3 A Mirror for a Tamil Christian King  4 The Ēlākkuṟicci School of Rhetoric  5 Ēlākkuṟicci as a Christian Maṭam 4 A Tamil Grammar of Persuasion  1 A Textbook of (Christian) Tamil: The Toṉṉūlviḷakkam  2 Amplificatio as Poruḷ  3 The Grammar of Society  4 Ignorant Enemies  5 Conclusions: Tamil Poetry and the Grammar of Persuasion Part 3 Catholic Poetry in a Tamil World 5 Writing for Eighteenth-Century Catechists  1 Christian Epic and Tamil Peruṅkāppiyam  2 Worldly Publics, Divine Patrons  3 Angelic Time and the Relocation of Devotion  4 Tamil Demons and Christian Wonder  5 Staged Conversions 6 Reading as an Eighteenth-Century Catechist  1 Paper and Palm-Leaf Trails  2 Catechist Dynasties  3 Śaiva Neighbors and Rivals  4 Towards the Colonial Archive  5 Conclusions: Catholic Lay Identities in the Longue durée Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTempting the Tempter considers how far fifteenth-century Italian mystics would go to imitate Christ, even in his encounters with the Devil in the desert. Elena of Udine, Caterina of Bologna, and Colomba of Rieti created their own desert experience through their austere devotional practices, and they suffered and overcame temptations from the Devil. This work explores how these women actively pursued encounters with the Devil, and how these private temptations prepared them for a public ministry of miracles, contributed to their perception as living saints, and allowed their biographers to promote them as true imitators of Christ, worthy of sainthood.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps and Figures Introduction 1 The Emergence of the Quattrocento Santa viva  1 The Influence of the Observants  2 The Influence of a Thriving Print Culture  3 Attributes of the Living Saint  4 The Prototype: St. Catherine of Siena  5 The Hagiographic Tradition  6 Conditions on the Italian Peninsula 2 Beata Elena Valentini da Udine, Augustinian Tertiary  1 From Widow to Bride of Christ  2 “Of the Temptations and Beatings Given to Her by the Devil” 3 Santa Caterina Vigri da Bologna, Franciscan Nun  1 From Afflicted Novice to Beloved Abbess  2 Spiritual Weapons against the Devil’s Tricks 4 Beata Colomba Guadagnoli da Rieti, Dominican Penitent  1 From Spiritual Prodigy to Miracle-Working Prophet  2 The Holy Virgin vs. the Enemy of Virtue 5 Imitatio Christi in Its Feminine Form  1 The Tradition of Imitatio Christi  2 A Culture of Imitation  3 Woman’s Body and Christ’s Suffering  4 Woman and Redemptive Suffering  5 Temptation as Imitation  6 Temptation in the Hagiographic Tradition 6 The Provocative Holy Woman  1 Divine Deception in the Desert  2 Solitude and the Creation of the Desert  3 Fasting and Eucharistic Piety  4 Praying without Ceasing  5 Punishment of the Flesh  6 Heroic Asceticism and Diabolical Attraction 7 The Holy Woman as Discerner of Spirits  1 The Power of Discretio Spirituum  2 Of Heretics and Demons  3 Jean Gerson and the Need for Discernment  4 Johannes Nider and the Makings of a Witch Stereotype  5 Heinrich Kramer and the Witch Defined  6 Of Discerners and their Detractors 8 The Santa viva in Society  1 Service to the Roman Church at Large  2 Service to the Observant Reform Movement  3 Service to the Local Community 9 Postmortem Veneration and the Making of a Saint  1 Virtus and the Vox Populi  2 The Living Saint: Transgressor or Talisman?  3 Holy Conjuring or Righteous Provocation?  4 Who Made the Saint?  5 Self-Fashioning through Imitation Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn their theological and historical interactions, neo-Calvinism and Roman Catholicism have often met in moments of conflict and co-operation. The neo-Calvinist statesman Abraham Kuyper polemicized against the Roman Catholic Church and its theology, whilst building bridges between those traditions by forging novel political coalitions across ecclesiastical boundaries. In theology, Gerrit C. Berkouwer, a neo-Calvinist critic of Roman Catholicism in the 1930s, later attended the Second Vatican Council as an appreciative Protestant observer. Telling their stories and others—including new research on lesser-known figures and neglected topics—this book presents the first scholarly volume on those dynamics of polemics and partnership.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of historical studies honors David Burr, emeritus professor at Virginia Tech. Representing some of the finest scholars in the field, the contributors touch upon the academic areas in which he has taught and published: the multi-faceted phenomenon of the Spiritual Franciscans (late 13th-early 14th century) and the life and writings of Peter of John Olivi in southern France.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Publications of David Burr Introduction PART 1: The Historiography of David Burr 1 David Burr: Life and Career  Kevin Madigan 2 Recapitulation or Chronological Progression? David Burr Treats Medieval Commentaries on the Book of Revelation  Robert E. Lerner 3 David Burr, the Book of Revelation and American Historiography  Alberto Forni and Paolo Vian PART 2: Medieval Apocalypticism: Joachim of Fiore and His Legacy 4 La nova Babilon secondo Gioacchino da Fiore e Pietro di Giovanni Olivi  Gian Luca Potestà 5 Che cosa è il “Liber Figurarum” di Gioacchino da Fiore?  Marco Rainini 6 Il futuro è dei bambini? Storia di una profezia dal XIII al XV secolo  Marco Bartoli PART 3: Peter of John Olivi: Life and Writings 7 Textual Criticism in the Franciscan Exegesis of the 13th Century. Peter of John Olivi: A Case Study  Gilbert Dahan 8 Bonaventure and Olivi: When Fidelity Leads to Divergence  C. Colt Anderson 9 The Manuscripts of Peter of John Olivi’s Lectura super Apocalipsim in Toulouse and Berlin: Research on the Oldest Textual Tradition  Alberto Forni and Paolo Vian 10 Olivi’s Philosophy of Evil in History  Warren Lewis 11 The Last Unedited Question of Olivi on Evangelical Perfection: Concerning Suspicious Encounters with Women (QPE7)  Sylvain Piron 12 A Comparison of the Commentaries on Luke of Peter of John Olivi and Nicholas of Lyra  Philip Krey 13 Una fonte oliviana nel sermone In Visitatione beatae Mariae Virginis di Bernardino da Siena  Fortunato Iozzelli, O.F.M. PART 4: The Spiritual Franciscans: Their Precursors and Adherents 14 Rush to Judgment? The Trial of John of Parma  Dabney G. Park 15 John of Murrovalle, Cardinal Protector of the Franciscan Order (1307–1312), and the Spiritual Franciscans  Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M 16 Following the Heart: Relics, Martyrdom and the Relational Space among the Beguins of Languedoc  Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel 17 Chronicle or History: The Uncertain Literary Genre of a Dissident Story  Antonio Montefusco 18 Dal Monte degli Ulivi alla Verna: riscritture francescane di Matteo 24  Michele Lodone Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBy clothing the Word with her flesh, the Virgin Mary made God visible, manifesting Christ as a perfect “image” of the Father. By virtue of this archetypal “artistry” of Incarnation, Mary mediates the tradition of Christian image-making. This volume explores images of the Mother of God in early modern devotion, piety, and power. The book is divided into four sections, the first three of which link the subjects thematically and geographically in Europe, while the last one follows Mary’s legacy. Contributors include: Elliott D. Wise, Anna Dlabačová, James Clifton, Kim Butler Wingfield, Barbara Baert, Steven Ostrow, Barbara Haeger, Shelley Perlove, Cristina Cruz González, and Mehreen Chida-Razvi.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 Our Lady of Grace: Holy Wars and Artisanal Competitions  Elliott D. Wise 2 Marian Devotions from a Printer’s Perspective   The Rosary, the Seven Sorrows, and Gerard Leeu (d. 1492)  Anna Dlabačová 3 “Lectulus noster floridus”: The Flower-Strewn Bed and the Virgin’s Womb  James Clifton 4 Matters of the Flesh: Michelangelo’s Madonnas  Kim Butler Wingfield 5 Revisiting the Annunciation in the Quattrocento: Wind, Kairos, Snail  Barbara Baert 6 Duplex Intercessio: The Centrality of the Virgin in Giovanni Battista Gaulli’s Dome Fresco in the Gesù  Steven F. Ostrow 7 Van Dyck’s Lamentation for the Church of the Recollects in Antwerp: Making Visible the Virgin Mary as Co-redemptrix  Barbara Haeger 8 Navigating Theological Differences: Rembrandt and the Grieving Mother of Christ  Shelley Perlove 9 Gemma Mexicanus: Our Lady of Tepepan in New Spain  Cristina Cruz González 10 Picturing the Mughal Madonna: The Virgin Mary as a Symbol of Legitimacy and Royal Authority in Jahangir’s Architecture  Mehreen Chida-Razvi Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the crucial role of teaching in the process of tradition. The various essays present case studies, written by specialists in the field, on themes drawn from the biblical, Jewish and Christian practice of ‘tradition’, the passing on of faith from generation to generation. Underlying these essays is the conviction that teaching is a privileged context for the study of tradition, since it always both preserves and renews tradition. There is no tradition without teaching, in which the past is interpreted in the present and the present is seen in the light of the past. Contributors are: Jan Bouwens, Rob V.J. Faesen, Leon Mock, Jos Moons, Krijn Pansters, Henk J. M. Schoot, Rudi A. te Velde, Archibald L. H. M. van Wieringen, and Ruben J. van Wingerden.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors 1 Introduction Teaching: A Unique Approach to Tradition  Jos Moons, Rudi A. te Velde and Archibald L. H. M. van Wieringen 2 The Immanu-El in Isaiah and Matthew An Exegetical Example of Tradition and Teaching  Archibald L. H. M. van Wieringen 3 The Text as Teacher in Rabbinic Tradition Some Observations  Leon Mock 4 Jesus Teaching Martyrdom? Gospel Teaching in Tertullian’s Ad Martyras, Cyprian’s ad Fortunatum, and Origen’s Exhortatio ad Martyrium  Ruben J. van Wingerden 5 Teaching and Traditio in the Work of Hadewijch and John of Ruusbroec  Rob V. J. Faesen 6 Being the Teaching Living Spirituality Lessons from the Franciscan Secular Tradition  Krijn Pansters 7 Some Reflections on Tradition and Teaching The Case of Thomas Aquinas  Rudi A. te Velde 8 “A Primarily Pastoral Teaching Office” (John XXIII) The Creative Potential of the Principle of ‘Pastorality’  Jos Moons 9 Recent Magisterial Teaching and Tradition On Separating Jesus and Christ  Henk J. M. Schoot 10 Recontextualizing Catholic School Identity: Five Criteria  Jan Bouwens 11 Epilogue Teaching and Tradition: A Creative Process  Jos Moons, Rudi A. te Velde and Archibald L. H. M. van Wieringen Index of Authors

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Book SynopsisA décréter absurde et insensé tout ce qu’elles rejetaient, les Lumières se condamnaient bien souvent à ne pas comprendre les ressorts secrets des préjugés. Clé de voûte de la catholicité, l’autorité du pape venait du coup à figurer une énigme absolue et à la lettre impensable. Les Philosophes et leurs papes cherche, dans le prolongement d’un colloque de l’Academia Belgica de Rome en mars 2008, à faire le tour de cette énigme. Il s’intéresse assez peu à la réalité historique de la papauté du XVIIIe siècle, mais d’autant plus aux diverses imageries qu’elle suscite aussi bien dans les récits de voyage (De Brosses, Sade) que sous la plume militante des Philosophes – de l’Essai sur les moeurs de Voltaire à tel canular de pamphlétaire. On pourra découvrir ainsi que le regard des Lumières françaises sur la papauté, en dépit de sa perplexité première et/ou en raison de celle-ci, est plus mouvant et sans doute plus ambigu qu’on ne pourrait croire à première vue.Table of ContentsPhilippe Levillain & Hervé Yannou: Les papes imaginaires des Lumières françaises Paul Pelckmans: Le Dictionnaire historique et critique devant la papauté Geneviève Artigas-Menant: L’imaginaire de la papauté dans l’œuvre de Robert Challe Jan Herman: Pierre Bayle contre Jacques Le Febvre s.J.: l’infaillibilité du pape dans Bayle en petit Marc Hersant: Saint-Simon, Clément XI et la constitution Unigenitus: les Mémoires « au cœur des Ténèbres » Catherine Volpilhac-Auger: Le pape et son vizir: le pouvoir des papes chez Montesquieu Michèle Bokobza Kahan: Stratégies médiatiques du journalisme religieux politique naissant: le Pape dans les Nouvelles ecclésiastiques Letizia Norci Cagiano: La comédie était possible en 1740: le Président de Brosses et la politique culturelle des papes Erik Gatefin: La critique de l’institution papale dans les Lettres d’Italie: une dérision sans conséquence? Sylvain Menant: Le pape imaginaire d’un conte de Voltaire: La Mule du Pape Myrtille Méricam-Bourdet: « Un coin du voile fut levé… »: la politique des papes dans l’Essai sur les mœurs Laurence Macé: Les papes des Xe et XIe siècles dans l’Essai sur les mœurs: les leçons d’une édition critique Bruno Bernard: Benoît XIV (1740-1758), un pape idéal pour les Lumières? Marek Bratuń: Elie Bertrand et ses Observations sur Rome politique Stéphan Pascau: Dulaurens et ses Rêves de l’antipapiste Stéphanie Géhanne Gavoty: Le mythe des Lumières à propos d’un « anti-Lumières »: Clément XIV revu et corrigé Gianluigi Goggi: Le « gouvernement ecclésiastique » des Papes dans l’Histoire des deux Indes Hervé Yannou: Louis-Sébastien Mercier ou l’utopie d’un monde sans pape Christian Lacombe: Les papes, Juliette, ou le pouvoir des illusions dans le Voyage en Italie et l’Histoire de Juliette de Sade Mladen Kozul: Corps du pape dans les pamphlets Personalia

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Book SynopsisIndigenous Apostles tells the story of conversion to Catholicism and birth of new ecclesial community with the arrival of Vatican II mission in Santa Maria Magdalenas, a Tzotzil-speaking village in Mexico’s Maya highlands. In the state of Chiapas, the nation’s erratic advance into the global market beginning in the 1970s drove landless young Magdaleneros to search for alternatives to peasant peonage. A few became catechists in the Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas. Cognitive entailments of newly-acquired biblical literacy warranted the subsequent critique of local Tzotzil tradition – costumbre – through which they reclaimed their ancestral land. This ethnographic account of their dialectical passage from the way of the ancestors to communion with the world Catholic Church demonstrates local constraints on liberation mission strategy and the power of indigenous agency in their own evangelization. It also points to the salience of place and everyday productive practice for native construction of local theology in the context of the new globalization.Trade Review"The author’s considerable gift as a writer and admirable empathy with the subject and the different (and opposing) actors are two notable qualities that make Indigenous Apostles a compelling read. Revealing both the inner workings of Maya society and the research process of a superb mind, this book deserves the widest possible readership." – Jean Meyer, Centre for Research and Teaching in Social Sciences, Mexico CityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Orthographic Note Introduction Contexts and Conversion. Origins of an Ecclesial Cargo Constructing Highland Mission. Proposals and Problematics Position and Place. Church, State, and Mission on the Ground Proclaiming Religion, Reclaiming Land. History, Cognition and Religious Change Working the Word. Constructing a Tzotzil Maya Theology Decolonizing the Saints. From Myth to History Epilogue. Doing What the Apostles Did Bibliography Index of Names

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Book SynopsisTales about treacherous Jesuits and scheming popes are an important and pervasive part of European culture. They belong to a set of ideas, images, and practices that, when grouped under the label anti-Catholicism, represent a phenomenon that can be traced back to the Reformation. Anti-Catholic movements and sentiments crossed boundaries between European countries, contributing to the early modern consolidation of national identities. In the nineteenth century, secularist movements adopted and transformed confessional criticism in a new internationalist dimension that was articulated across the whole Western world. A variety of liberal, conservative, secular, Protestant, and other forces gave shape to this counter-image, taking on the function of a pattern from which one’s own ideals and beliefs could be chiselled out. The contributions to this volume show how different national contexts affected the proliferation of anti-Catholic messages over the course of four centuries of European history, and demonstrate that anti-Catholicism constituted a powerful European cross-cultural phenomenon.Table of ContentsAuthors in this volume Yvonne Maria Werner and Jonas Harvard: European Anti-Catholicism in Comparative and Transnational Perspective – The Role of a Unifying Other: An Introduction General Perspectives John Wolffe: North Atlantic Anti-Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century: A Comparative Overview Manuel Borutta: Settembrini’s World: German and Italian Anti-Catholicism in the Age of the Culture Wars Anti-Catholicism and National Identity Laura M. Stevens: Healing a Whorish Heart: The Whore of Babylon and Protestant Interiority in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Britain Clare Haynes: How to look? Roman Catholic Art in Britain – 1700-2010 Edwina Hagen: Dutch Civic Virtues, Protestant and Enlightened: Anti-Catholicism and Early Cultural Nationalism in the Netherlands Around 1800 Olaf Blaschke: Anti-Protestantism and Anti-Catholicism in the 19th Century: A Comparison Yvonne Maria Werner: ‘The Catholic Danger’: The Changing Patterns of Swedish Anti-Catholicism – 1850-1965 Kristin Norseth: Arousing Anti-Catholic Sentiments on a National Scale: The Case of Marta Steinsvik and Norway Anti-Catholicism and Political Culture Jes Fabricius Møller and Uffe Østergård: Lutheran Orthodoxy and Anti-Catholicism in Denmark 1536-2011 Ainur Elmgren: The Jesuit Stereotype – An Image of the Universal Enemy in Finnish Nationalism Bernt T. Oftestad: Norway and the Jesuit Order: A History of Anti-Catholicism Jonas Harvard: Catholicism and the Idea of Public Legitimacy in Sweden Andrew G. Newby: Scottish Anti-Catholicism in a British and European Context: The ‘North Pole Mission’ and Victorian Scotland

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