Visions of Contemplation: Jesuits and Their Rhetoric of Persuasion in Japan Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail Indiana University Originally published: July 14, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.22 When Saint Francis Xavier set sail to India on April 7, 1541,[1] it was about a year before the first Europeans “discovered” Japan.[2] Xavier was nominated núncio apostólico (apostolic […]
Spiritual Edification and Publishing Policies in Jesuit Work in South American Missions (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) Juan Dejo, S.J. Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.20 Writing as Part of the Society of Jesus’s Policy for Spiritual Edification On July 27, 1547, during the period when
Giovambattista Noghera (1719–84): A Jesuit Looking Back at a Great Rhetorical Tradition Hanne Roer Københavns Universitet Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.04 Noghera: A Forgotten Apologist and Jesuit Humanist Although Giovambattista Noghera, S.J. was a professor of rhetoric and a prolific writer—his works were published in a posthumous collection of
At a meeting of the major superiors in the Jesuits’ African Assistancy in March 1972, Pedro Arrupe delivered the following remarks on the missionary vocation within the Society of Jesus. The group had gathered in Cameroon, just a year after the establishment of the African Assistancy. A Jesuit missionary, Arrupe argues, had a two-fold purpose:
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Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, the superior general of the Society of Jesus, delivered the following remarks, over three days, to open the Jesuits’ 34th General Congregation. Kolvenbach reminds the delegates that their gathering had its “source and origins in the spiritual experience of Ignatius and his first companions,” that, in the words of Ignatius, theirs was “a
