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- Title
De su alteza es mandar y de nosostros obedecir.
- Authors
Foresta, Patrizio
- Abstract
Over the past three decades there has been a remarkable increase in historiographical interest in the Society of Jesus. Particularly in France and Italy during the 80s and 90s, many historians contributed to a fundamental re-examination of the way in which Jesuit history had previously been viewed, thus overcoming the tendency towards apology or controversy that had been typical of many traditional articles on the topic. However, precisely because of this openness to recent historiographical approaches, Jesuits have sometimes been considered not so much as a subject of research in themselves but more as a kind of research laboratory and a tool for providing an adequate answer to the questions of modernity. On the other hand, the question of whether the Jesuits can actually provide a matrix for interpreting modernity – with all its implications – has not always been asked. This article aims to address these issues, which have emerged in international scientific debate, firstly through analysis of the Jesuit concept of obedience as it occurs in some basic texts of the Society of Jesus, and secondly by examining the role played by obedience within the pastoral and institutional strategies of the Order.
- Subjects
JESUITS; OBEDIENCE -- Religious aspects; RELIGIOUS studies; CHURCH historiography; CHURCH &; the world
- Publication
Quellen und Forschungen aus Italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, 2012, Vol 92, p328
- ISSN
0079-9068
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/qfiab.2012.92.1.328