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Cargando... God's Soldiers: Adventure, Politics, Intrigue, and Power--A History of the Jesuitspor Jonathan Wright
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. CBB-4 This is the history of the Jesuits, the Catholic Society of Jesus. It is a scholarly book, well-written but it could be wished it had more historic incidence. I think it would have made the book more readable. If you are interested in the history of the Jesuits, then I recommend this book especially if it is a scholarly interest. http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1357804.html This is not a terribly impressive book. It is a more or less chronological account of details of history featuring the Jesuits, with no deep analysis and rather few hard facts - nothing at all to explain their internal structure, miserably brief accounts of how they were founded in 1534 and re-established in 1814. Wright is slightly better on the various political controversies that Jesuits have been involved in, though even here his analysis basically amounts to there being two sides of the story. He is good on the Jesuits' contribution to science. He is wholly inadequate on their contribution to colonialism. I can't really recommend this book. A balanced and informative read, Jonathan Wright employs a playful -at times smug - tone to his examination of the origin, suppression and rebirth of the Church's most controversial order, the Jesuits. As a Jesuit trained student and teacher, I smiled and cringed throughout the read wishing Wright had focused just a bit more on the pedagogical contributions - good and bad - the Society of Jesus has imparted to students all over the world. My father in-law, having attended St. John Bapst High (not a Jesuit institution) in Bangor, ME, was pleased to hear about the incredible persecution and successful evangelism the patron of his alma mater had. A historian first, theologian second Wright undoubtedly respects religion's role in the world without entirely convincing the reader that he himself practices it. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Throughout history members of the Society of Jesus, popularly known as Jesuits, have been accused of killing kings and presidents, have traveled as missionaries to every corner of the globe, founded haciendas in Mexico, explored the Mississippi and Amazon rivers, and served Chinese emperors as map makers, painters, and astronomers. As well as the predictable roll call of saints and martyrs, the Society can also lay claim to the thirty-five craters on the moon named for Jesuit scientists. Jesuits have been despised and idolized on a scale unknown to members of any other religious order; they have died the most horrible deaths and done the most outlandish deeds. Whether loved or loathed, the Jesuits’ dramatic and wide-ranging impact could never be ignored. By the mid-eighteenth century, they had established more than 650 educational institutions. They were also strongly committed to foreign missions, and like the secular explorers and settlers of the Age of Discovery, they traveled to the Far East, India, and the Americas to stake a claim. They were especially successful in Latin America, where they managed to put numerous villages entirely under Jesuit rule. The Jesuits’ successes both in Europe and abroad, coupled with rumors of scandal and corruption within the order, soon drew criticism from within the Church and without. Writers such as Pascal and Voltaire wrote polemics against them, and the absolute monarchs of Catholic Europe sought to destroy them. Their power was seen as so threatening that hostility escalated into serious political feuds, and at various times they were either banned or harshly suppressed throughout Europe. God’s Soldiersis a fascinating chronicle of this celebrated, mysterious, and often despised religious order. Jonathan Wright illuminates as never before their enduring contributions as well as the controversies that surrounded them. The result is an in-depth, unbiased, and utterly compelling history. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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