The latest issue of the Journal of Jesuit Studies 12/4 (December 2025) is now available, featuring seven open-access articles spanning early modern intellectual history, material and visual culture, Roman devotional life, and contemporary Ignatian pedagogy and leadership. This issue contains a broad spectrum of book reviews and review essays that reflect recent scholarship in Jesuit studies. The reviews cover a range of topics, including Jesuit spiritual literature, education, missionary activity in Asia and Latin America, engagement with world cultures, and theological debates. This curated selection offers readers insights into the latest academic discussions and emerging trends within the global history and influence of the Jesuit order.
Explore the full table of contents via the Jesuit Online Bibliography:
- Ecological Crisis and the Jesuit Way of Proceeding in the Mission of Henri de Laulanié — Adam Parr
- Jesuit Writers’ Critique of Tyranny and Conquest in the School of Salamanca — Juan Antonio Senent-De Frutos
- The Mutability of the Law of Nations: Francisco Suárez in Historical and Intellectual Context — Diego Alejandro Fernández Peychaux, Pablo Font-Oporto
- A Universal Language: Jesuit Catechism at San Vitale in Seventeenth-Century Rome — Marta Battisti
- The Market for Illustrated Jesuit Publications: Hendrik Aertssens’s Editions of the Pia desideria, Via vitae aeternae, and Vitae passionis et mortis Jesu Christi … mysteria — Karen L. Bowen, Dirk Imhof
- Relics and Sacred Images of St. Ignatius of Loyola at the Roman Casa Professa — Eneko Ortega Mentxaka
- From Crisis to Calling: Ignatian Leadership as Transformative Pedagogy in Contemporary Higher Education — José María Villanueva Núñez-Lagos, Ana García-Mina Freire, Gonzalo Aza Blanc
The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies is one of the journal’s Open Accesso sponsors.

