Francisco Suárez (1548–1617): Jesuits and Complexities of Modernity

Jesuit Studies, Volume: 22
ISSN: 2214-3289
ISBN: 978-90-04-39565-7
ISBN: 978-90-04-39564-0

The fourth International Symposium on Jesuit Studies was co-organized in Seville in 2018 by the Departamento de Humanidades y Filosofía at Universidad Loyola Andalucía and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College. Its theme considered studied the work of Francisco Suárez and other Jesuits of his time in the context of diverse traditions that came together in Europe between the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and early modernity.

Francisco Suárez (1548–1617): Jesuits and the Complexities of Modernity —with revised and peer-reviewed essays based on presentations at the symposium— is available through Brill Publishers. The essays are not available in open access. The contents include:

Introducción
— Juan Antonio Senent-De Frutos

Metaphysics

Francisco Suárez’s Metaphysics of Cognitive Acts
— Daniel Heider

Suárez on Substantial Forms: a Heroic Last Stand?
— Sydney Penner

Intrinsic Being or the Formal Structures of Thought? The Grounding of Possibility in Francisco Suárez’s Metaphysics
— Matthew Z. Vale

En contra del esencialismo: Ente real y existencia en Suárez
— Ángel Poncela González

Religion, Law, Society

Francisco Suárez: Religious Freedom and International Law
— Robert Fastiggi

Francisco Suárez on Religion and Religious Pluralism
— Aaron Pidel S.J.

Encarnación y subsistencia en las Disputaciones metafísicas de Francisco Suárez: Algunas cuestiones en torno a los fundamentos de la modernidad
— Julio Söchting

Settling Law: Francisco Suárez’s Theory of Custom for Contemporary Contexts
— Elisabeth Rain Kincaid

Political Theories

Francisco Suárez y la posibilidad de intervención pública en asuntos sociales
— Luis-Carlos Amezúa Amezúa

Beyond Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Finding Resources in Francisco Suárez’s Political Theology
— Liam de los Reyes

Entrega del poder al gobernante y esclavitud voluntaria de la comunidad política en Francisco Suárez: Una interpretación desde los límites fácticos al poder
— Pablo Font Oporto

Francisco Suárez y la propaganda político-apocalíptica en la Inglaterra de Jacobo i: El libro V de la Defensio fidei; El Anticristo
— Pilar Pena Búa

Francisco Suárez: Absolutist or Constitutionalist?
— Szilárd Tattay

Psychology

El sí mismo desde Suárez y el valor moral de los hábitos
— Giannina Burlando

Separated Soul and Its Nature: Francisco Suárez in the Scholastic Debate
— Simone Guidi

Doctrinal Divergences on the Nature of Human Composite in Two Commentaries on Aristotle’s De anima (Anonymous, Cod. 2399 bguc and Francisco Suárez): New Material on the Jesuit School of Coimbra and the Cursus Conimbricensis
— Paula Oliveira e Silva
— João Rebalde

Suárez, Maquiavelo y una moderna noción de prudencia: Derivaciones políticas en la obra de Diego de Saavedra Fajardo
— Nicolás Vivalda

Legacy

Francisco Suárez and John Locke on Rights and Alienability: a Critical Conversation
— Catherine Sims Kuiper

La imposible teología política: Gobierno y justicia en Francisco Suárez
— Lorenzo Rustighi

Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas

 Jesuit Studies, Volume: 14
ISSN: 2214-3289
ISBN: 978-90-04-37382-2
ISBN: 978-90-04-35768-6

The third International Symposium on Jesuit Studies took place at Boston College in June 2017. Its theme considered the encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas.

Several scholars were invited to revise their presentations as formal essays, which were then peer reviewed and published in Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas available through Brill Publishers. The essays are not available in open access. The contents include:

Introduction: Protestantism and Early Jesuits
— Robert Aleksander Maryks

Asia

Introduction
— R.P. Hsia

We Are Not Jesuits: Reassessing Relations between Protestantism, French Catholicism, and the Society of Jesus in Late Tokugawa to Early Shōwa 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
— Délio Mendonça

Beyond Words: Missionary Grammars and the Construction of Language in Tamil Country
— Michelle Zaleski

The Americas

Introduction: Jesuit Liminal Space in Liberal Protestant Modernity
— Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

José de Acosta, a Spanish Jesuit–Protestant Author: Print Culture, Contingency, and Deliberate Silence in the Making of the Canon
— Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

Negotiating the Confessional Divide in Dutch Brazil and the Republic: The Case of Manoel de Morães
— 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 Ballériaux

“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

Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa

 Jesuit Studies, Volume: 13
ISSN: 2214-3289
ISBN: 978-90-04-34715-1
ISBN: 978-90-04-34714-4

In June 2016, the International Symposium on Jesuit Studies took place at the Jesuit Historical Institute of Africa and Madagascar in Nairobi, Kenya.

Emerging from the second symposium, Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa offers two introductory essays (one by Robert Maryks and the other by Festo Mkenda, S.J.) and 12 chapters. Due to support from the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, the book’s contents appear in open access, and its chapters are available for download at no cost.

Memories of Earlier Missions

Following in Jesuit Footsteps: British Expeditions to Ethiopia in the Early Victorian Era
— Jesse Sargent

A Protestant Verdict on the Jesuit Missionary Approach in Africa: David Livingstone and Memories of the Early Jesuit Presence in South Central Africa
— Festo Mkenda, S.J.

Encounters in Southern Africa

Jesuits and Protestants in South Africa, 1685–2015
— Anthony Egan, S.J.

Encounters between Jesuit and Protestant Missionaries in Their Approaches to Evangelization in Zambia
— Choobe Maambo, S.J.

Soror nostra es: Jesuits, Protestants, and Political Elites in Southern Africa among the Shona and the Ndebele, 1889–1900
— Aquinata Agonga

Jesuit Portraits of Protestant Missionary Activity in Southern Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Wilfred Sumani, S.J.

Encounters in Madagascar, Congo, and Fernando Po

Jesuits and Protestants in Nineteenth-Century Madagascar
— Jocelyn Rabeson, S.J.

Jesuit–Protestant Encounters in Colonial Congo in the Late Nineteenth Century: Perceptions, Prejudices, and the Competition for African Souls
— Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula, S.J.

The Adulteresses Were Reformers: The Perception and Position of Women in the Religious Fight of Fernando Po, 1843–1900
— Jean Luc Enyegue, S.J.

Exploring Jesuit  distinctiveness. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ways of Proceeding within the Society of Jesus

Jesuit Studies, Volume: 6
ISSN: 2214-3289
ISBN: 978-90-04-34715-1
ISBN: 978-90-04-34714-4
 
The first International Symposium on Jesuit Studies took place in June 2015 at Boston College.
 
Several scholars were invited to revise their presentations as formal essays, which were then peer reviewed and published in Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ways of Proceeding within the Society of Jesus. Due to the support of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit studies, this book is available in open access through Brill Publishers. The volume offers an introductory essay and 12 chapters, all of which are available for download at no cost. The chapters include:
 
Francesco Benci and the Origins of Jesuit Neo-Latin Epic
— Paul Gwynne
 
Exploring the Distinctiveness of Neo-Latin Jesuit Didactic Poetry in Naples: The Case of Nicolò Partenio Giannettasio
— Claudia Schindler
 
Civic Education on Stage: Civic Values and Virtues in the Jesuit Schools of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
— Jolanta Rzegocka
 
“Ask the Jesuits to Send Verses from Rome”: The Society’s Networks and the European Dissemination of Devotional Music
— Daniele V. Filippi
 
Priestly Violence, Martyrdom, and Jesuits: The Case of Diego de Alfaro, S.J. (Paraguay 1639)
— Andrew Redden
 
Colonial Theodicy and the Jesuit Ascetic Ideal in José de Acosta’s Works on Spanish America
— Bryan Green
 
Purple Silk and Black Cotton: Francisco Cabral, S.J., and the Negotiation of Jesuit Attire in Japan (1570–73)
— Linda Zampol D’Ortia
 
Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s Vida del P. Ignacio de Loyola (1583) and Literary Culture in Early Modern Spain
— Rady Roldán-Figueroa
 
The Distinctiveness of the Society of Jesus’s Mission in Pedro de Ribadeneyra S.J.’s Historia ecclesiástica del schisma del Reyno de Inglaterra (1588)
— Spencer J. Weinreich
 
Discerning Skills: Psychological Insight at the Core of Jesuit Identity
— Cristiano Casalini
 
Distinctive Contours of Jesuit Enlightenment in France
— Jeffrey D. Burson
 
One Century of Science: The Jesuit Journal Brotéria (1902–2002)
— Francisco Malta Romeiras
— Henrique Leitão