Jesuit Writings of the Early Modern Period: 1540ıı1640

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 263 pages
• Published by: Hackett Publishing Company September 30, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0872208397
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0872208391
• Book Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 12 ounces

Product Review
"Theology, education, missions, politics, social ministries, charities: everything is here. A very useful book for college courses on the Reformation." -- (Virginia Reinburg, Boston College)

"This is an great selection of texts dealing with major aspects of Jesuit history." -- (John O’Malley, Weston Jesuit School of Theology)

Product Description
This is a balanced collection of sources in translation. It is ideal for use in courses on the Counter-Reformation, on the history of the Jesuit order, or as part of a more general course on the history of Christianity in the early modern period.

Reader Reviews
One should consider carefully the intentions of the author, a Jesuit priest, who states, page 144: "William Whitaker (1548-95), an English Puritan theologian who wrote a book defending the doctrine of Scripture alone against Bellarmine, said that despite Bellarmine's belonging to 'the Jesuit swarm of papist locust,' he seemed 'an invincible champion, as one with whom none of our men would dare to engage, whom nobody can answer, and whom, if anybody should hope to conquer, they would regard him as an utter madman.'" No bible believing Christian or Protestant would say such a thing, especially those who lived at a time when "heretics" where still being tortured and burned at the stake under the guidance of such eminent Doctors of the Church. William Whitaker actually said: "Bellarmine is cried up by his party as an invincible champion, as one with whom none of our men would dare to engage, whom nobody can answer, and whom if any one should hope to conquer, they would regard him as an utter madman." This Whitaker states as the introduction to 700 pages against the weak and feeble arguments and the "strange and hitherto, I think, unheard of" interpretations of Bellarmine who with others that the "Society of Jesus hath brought forth, for the calamity of the church and the christian religion. For when, after that black, deadly, baneful, and tedious night of popish superstition and antichristianism, the clear and cheerful lustre of the gospel had illuminated with its rays some portions of the christian world ... on a sudden, these men sprang up to obscure with pestilential vapours, and ravish, if possible, from our view, this light, so hateful to themselves, so hostile and prejudicial to their interests." Whitaker's book, "A Disputation on Holy Scripture: Against the Papists, Especially Bellarmine and Stapleton" is available on Amazon. Let the Catholic people, who are taught that they may not doubt the priests and the Church, take care for themselves and test all proofs and apologetics. Jesus said "you will know them by their fruits" Matthew 7. Consider the intentions of the Jesuits who are committed to the teaching of Loyola (Jesuit founder) who states: "To be right in everything, we ought always to hold that the white which I see, is black, if the Hierarchical Church so decides it" ("The Spiritual Exercises"). "I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God and they shall be My people, none of them shall teach his neighbor and none his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them." Hebrews 8 "the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from ALL sin." 1 John 1 "for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast." Ephesians 2