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Caroline Casuistry - The Cases of Conscience of Fr Thomas Southwell, SJ (Hardcover, New)
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Caroline Casuistry - The Cases of Conscience of Fr Thomas Southwell, SJ (Hardcover, New)
Series: Catholic Record Society: Records Series
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Edition of theological debates and discussions, giving an
intriguing and unusual insight into the English catholic community
in the seventeenth century. How did English Catholics come to terms
with living in an alien state? Could they, for example, practise
equivocation to avoid arrest, possible imprisonment and execution?
Could they use force against their captors? What contact could they
maintain with Protestants in order to survive and carry on a normal
life? In such a context it is not surprising that a training in
casuistry, the science of resolving difficult cases of conscience,
was an important aspect of the education of English Catholic
missionary priests. A number of the manuals used in that training
have survived, largely in manuscript versions only. This volume, a
companion to Dr Holmes' selection from Elizabethan materials
(Elizabethan Casuistry, 1981), contains discussions and debates
dating from the reign of Charles I. Their author was Thomas
Southwell, a professor at the English Jesuit College in Liege, a
respected scholar and teacher. He focuses on the problems facing
Catholic priests and laymen under persecution in England,
discussing, for example, attitudes to the Oath of Allegiance, the
Roman Index of Prohibited Books and the Church's laws on fasting.In
addition, there are cases here about witchcraft, astrology,
duelling, usury, monopolies and bills of exchange. An important
section contains over sixty cases dealing with betrothal and
marriage, both from the point of view ofEnglish Catholics and in
more general terms. The documents are accompanied by a full
critical introduction, setting them in context, and elucidatory
notes. Peter Holmes holds a doctorate in History from the
University of Cambridge, where his research focused on the
political thought of the Elizabethan Catholics
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