The American Jesuits

The American Jesuits
Title The American Jesuits PDF eBook
Author Raymond A. Schroth
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 326
Release 2009-10
Genre Psychology
ISBN 0814741088

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Schroth recounts the history of the Jesuits in the United States, focusing on the key periods of the Jesuit experience beginning with the era of European explorers-- some of whom were Jesuits themselves.

The American Jesuits

The American Jesuits
Title The American Jesuits PDF eBook
Author Raymond A. Schroth
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 326
Release 2009-10
Genre Psychology
ISBN 0814741088

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Schroth recounts the history of the Jesuits in the United States, focusing on the key periods of the Jesuit experience beginning with the era of European explorers-- some of whom were Jesuits themselves.

Passionate Uncertainty

Passionate Uncertainty
Title Passionate Uncertainty PDF eBook
Author Peter McDonough
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 392
Release 2002-03-05
Genre Religion
ISBN 0520930770

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Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus remains the largest and most controversial religious order of men in Catholicism. Since the 1960s, however, Jesuits in the United States have lost more than half of their members, and they have experienced a massive upheaval in what they believe and how they work and live. In this groundbreaking book, Peter McDonough and Eugene C. Bianchi draw on interviews and statements gathered from more than four hundred Jesuits and former Jesuits to provide an intimate look at turmoil among Catholicism's legendary best-and-brightest. Priests and former priests speak candidly about their reasons for joining (and leaving) the Jesuits, about their sexual development and orientation, about their spiritual crises and their engagement with other religious traditions. They discuss issues ranging from celibacy to the ordination of women, homosexuality, the rationale of the priesthood, the challenges of community life, and the divinity of Jesus. Passionate Uncertainty traces the transformation of the Society of Jesus from a fairly unified organization into a smaller, looser community with disparate goals and an elusive corporate identity. From its role as a traditional subculture during the days of immigrant Catholicism, the order has changed into an amalgam of countercultures shaped around social mission, sexual identity, and an eclectic spirituality. The story of the Jesuits reflects the crisis of clerical authority and the deep ambivalence surrounding American Catholicism's encounter with modernity.

American Jesuits and the World

American Jesuits and the World
Title American Jesuits and the World PDF eBook
Author John T. McGreevy
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 326
Release 2018-11-13
Genre Religion
ISBN 0691183104

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How American Jesuits helped forge modern Catholicism around the world At the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed fated for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in 1773 by one pope, they were restored in 1814 by another, but with only six hundred aged members. Yet a century later, the Jesuits numbered seventeen thousand men and were at the vanguard of the Catholic Church’s expansion around the world. This book traces this nineteenth-century resurgence, showing how Jesuits nurtured a Catholic modernity through a disciplined counterculture of parishes, schools, and associations. Drawing on archival materials from three continents, American Jesuits and the World tracks Jesuits who left Europe for America and Jesuits who left the United States for missionary ventures across the Pacific. Each chapter tells the story of a revealing or controversial event, including the tarring and feathering of an exiled Swiss Jesuit in Maine, the efforts of French Jesuits in Louisiana to obtain Vatican approval of a miraculous healing, and the educational efforts of American Jesuits in Manila. These stories reveal how the Jesuits not only revived their own order but made modern Catholicism more global. The result is a major contribution to modern global history and an invaluable examination of the meaning of religious liberty in a pluralistic age.

American Jesuits and the World

American Jesuits and the World
Title American Jesuits and the World PDF eBook
Author John T. McGreevy
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 326
Release 2018-11-13
Genre Religion
ISBN 0691183104

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How American Jesuits helped forge modern Catholicism around the world At the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed fated for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in 1773 by one pope, they were restored in 1814 by another, but with only six hundred aged members. Yet a century later, the Jesuits numbered seventeen thousand men and were at the vanguard of the Catholic Church’s expansion around the world. This book traces this nineteenth-century resurgence, showing how Jesuits nurtured a Catholic modernity through a disciplined counterculture of parishes, schools, and associations. Drawing on archival materials from three continents, American Jesuits and the World tracks Jesuits who left Europe for America and Jesuits who left the United States for missionary ventures across the Pacific. Each chapter tells the story of a revealing or controversial event, including the tarring and feathering of an exiled Swiss Jesuit in Maine, the efforts of French Jesuits in Louisiana to obtain Vatican approval of a miraculous healing, and the educational efforts of American Jesuits in Manila. These stories reveal how the Jesuits not only revived their own order but made modern Catholicism more global. The result is a major contribution to modern global history and an invaluable examination of the meaning of religious liberty in a pluralistic age.

American Jesuits

American Jesuits
Title American Jesuits PDF eBook
Author James Joseph Walsh
Publisher
Pages 360
Release 1968
Genre Religion
ISBN

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Men Astutely Trained

Men Astutely Trained
Title Men Astutely Trained PDF eBook
Author Peter Mcdonough
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 662
Release 2008-06-30
Genre History
ISBN 1439106088

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A perceptive & provocative analysis of the transformation that swept through American Catholicism in the decades leading up to Vatican II. The Jesuits have been the carriers of a culture borne along by a fruitful & often frustrating tension between their dual commitment to ancient virtues & to the pursuit of the free play of ideas. This book explains developments among the Jesuits and sets them in the larger context of the sea-changes that shook the world and the Catholic Church in the world during the mid-20th century.