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Jesuits - A Multibiography (Paperback)
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Jesuits - A Multibiography (Paperback)
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Jesuits traces the growth of the Society of Jesus into Christendoms
most powerful order. This multibiography is history with a human
face, a story of remarkable individuals who flourished and
struggled through changing times into the modern age. In this
magisterial account, Jean Lacouture portrays the sweep of five
hundred years of world history, from the dungeons of the Vatican to
the jungles of South America to the royal courts of Europe and
Asia. Jesuits: A Multibiography is history with a human face, the
fascinating tales of men of the spirit who participated in the
actions and passions of the modern world, a world bursting its
seams. Be all things to all men, said the founder of the Jesuits,
Ignatius of Loyola, to his followers. Go and set the world ablaze!
The often picaresque story takes us to the Paris of Rabelais, where
Ignatius, with a handful of his fellow students, formed what would
become the Society of Jesus. We follow Francis Xavier to Japan and
Matteo Ricci to China. We watch as the Society grows into
Christendom's most powerful order, and as the Black Legend of a
calculating, Machiavellian Jesuitry leads to its abolition in 1773
(it was restored forty years later). We see the great characters of
history and culturePascal, Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Catherine
the Greatplay their parts. One of Jean Lacouture's most poignant
portraits is of the twentieth century's most famous and beloved
Jesuit, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a scientist-priest whose
humanistic conclusions put him at odds with the Church. Lacouture's
wide-ranging narrative illuminates Pope John XXIII's reforms and
the Jesuit-inspired liberation theology movements in Central and
South America. With the papacy of John Paul II, a riveting drama
unfolds as the Jesuits are brought under new constraints.
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