King John III of Portugal was the early Society of Jesus’s strongest royal supporter. All the more painful to the Society, then, was a serious quarrel that broke out between the Portuguese king and Pope Paul III after the latter appointed the former ambassador of Portugal as a cardinal. The king responded by recalling his ambassador […]
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The following text is the “Formula of the Institute” composed by St. Ignatius and his first companions in 1539 as a kind of charter or mission statement for the new Society of Jesus. It was inserted with minor revisions into the 1540 bull Regimini militantis Ecclesiae, in which Pope Paul III formally approved the foundation
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Founded at Boston College in 2014, the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies seeks to deepen understanding and appreciation for the history, spirituality, educational heritage, and pedagogical approaches of the Society of Jesus. The Institute hopes to serve as a dynamic and collaborative scholarly resource—both at Boston College and around the world—for important coursework, publications, symposia,
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The Portal’s editors—wishing to provide a free, dynamic, collaborative, and ever-going online service to users—welcome contributions to the site. There are two ways users can contribute to the Portal. 1. You can contribute content. The Portal’s editors welcome contributions of your research, such as important primary sources to be included in the document
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A free service provided by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, the Portal offers informed direction to some of the richest materials associated with the Society of Jesus located at a variety of websites. The Portal grants online access to a curated and fully searchable collection of important primary sources and some of the latest
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The Jesuit Online Bibliography is now available at jesuitonlinebibliography.com. The Jesuit Online Bibliography is a free, collaborative, multilingual, and fully searchable database of bibliographic records for scholarship in Jesuit Studies produced in the 21st century. In the bibliographic tradition of the Society of Jesus, this database provides the records, abstracts, subject categories, and direct
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Essential Documents A collection of some of the most important primary sources in Jesuit history. Materials include letters and addresses from the Fathers General, selected decrees and important addresses from the General Congregations, and papal bulls, remarks, and other statements to or about the Society of Jesus. Jesuit Online Library The Jesuit Online Library allows
Jesuit Sources formally launches the first volume published since its move from St. Louis to Boston College. Jesuit Pedagogy, 1540-1616: A Reader is edited by Cristiano Casalini and Claude Pavur, SJ. As the publisher summarizes: “Once they had begun educating youth, the Jesuits never stopped thinking about pedagogy. The Ratio studiorum (1599), widely celebrated for
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The second volume of Brill’s Jesuit Studies book series is released. According to the publisher, Envoys of a Human God: The Jesuit Mission to Christian Ethiopia, 1557-1632, by Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner, “offers a comprehensive study of the religious mission led by the Society of Jesus in Christian Ethiopia. The mission to Ethiopia was one of
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Julia Sarreal’s The Guaraní and Their Missions: A Socioeconomic History is now available through Stanford University Press. To examine the thirty Jesuit missions in the Rio de la Plata, Sarreal uses mission account books and other materials to consider the missions’ “work regime” and the Guaraní’s ability to shape the mission economy. Such archival materials, the
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