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Saint Cicero and the Jesuits

The Influence of the Liberal Arts on the Adoption of Moral Probabilism [Hardback]

by Robert Aleksander Maryks

    • Author

      Robert Aleksander Maryks

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Ashgate Publishing Group

    • Published

      August 2008

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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 '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.It is argued that for most of the sixteenth century, books such as Juan Alfonso de Polanco's "Directory for Confessors" espousing a Tutiorist line dominated the market for Jesuit confessional manuals until the seventeenth century, by which time Probabilism had become the dominating force in Jesuit theology.What caused this switch, from Tutiorism to Probablism, forms the central thesis of Dr Maryks' book.He believes that as a direct result of the Jesuits adoption of a new ministry of educating youth in the late 1540s, Jesuit schoolmasters were compelled to engage with classical culture, many aspects of which would have resonated with their own concepts of spirituality. In particularly Ciceronian humanitas and civilta, along with rhetorical principles of accommodation influenced Jesuit thinking in the revolutionary transition from medieval Tutiorism to modern Probabilism.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.

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      • Author

        Robert Aleksander Maryks

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Ashgate Publishing Group

      • Published

        August 2008

      • Edition

        New edition

      • Weight

        436g

      • Page Count

        256

      • Dimensions

        156 x 234 x 13 mm

      • ISBN

        9780754662938

      • ISBN-10

        0754662934

      • Eden Code

        1212406

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      • Author/Creator: Robert Aleksander Maryks

      • ISBN: 9780754662938

      • Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group

      • Release Date: August 2008

      • Weight: 436g

      • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 13 mm

      • Eden Code: 1212406


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