The International Symposium on Jesuit Studies opens today at Boston College with a keynote address by Festo Mkenda, SJ, of Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa in Nairobi. The event consists of five panels examining the theme of “Encounters Between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas.” In addition to Mkenda, keynote addresses […]
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A new essay on the historiography of the Society of Jesus in Korea is now available at Jesuit Historiography Online, hosted in Open Access by Brill Reference. The essay, authored by Jieun Han and Franklin Rausch, examines how historians have treated the Jesuits’ “important influence” on Korea Catholicism despite the fact that “until the 1950s, only
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In the current issue of the Journal of Jesuit Studies, historian Judith Rock examines the motivation, widespread production, and professionalism of ballets at Jesuit colleges in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. “The Jesuit college ballets,” she writes, “are a rich nexus of … art, theology, philosophy, and culture.” Rock’s essay and the entire contents
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A new essay on the historiography of Jesuits in post-restoration India (since 1834) is now available at Jesuit Historiography Online, hosted in Open Access by Brill Reference. The essay is authored by Savio Abreu, S.J., director of the Xavier Centre of Historical Research in Goa. Abreu begins by tracing the treatments of the suppression and restoration of
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Michael Lombardo’s Founding Father, now available in Brill’s Jesuit Studies book series, is the first critical biography John Wynne, S.J., the founding editor of the Catholic Encyclopedia and America magazine. According to Brill, “Lombardo uses theological inculturation to explore the ways in which Wynne used his publications to negotiate American Catholic citizenship during the Progressive Era.”
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With Conscience of a Nation, Novalis has recent published the third and final volume of its three-volume history of the Jesuits in English Canada (1842-2013). The publisher notes that the text surveys “Jesuit spirituality and formation, as well as the society’s work with ecology, education, and foreign missions.” The previous two volumes (on Jesuits as teachers
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What am I searching? Through the Portal to Jesuit Studies, you have access to sources related to the history, the spirituality, the educational heritage, and the academic study of the Society of Jesus. These sources are located at disparate websites, but their contents are all available through the Portal’s aggregate search engine. What you have
The following text was first orally approved by Pope Paul III in 1539. More commonly known as the “Five Chapters,” the document serves the first foundational document of what became the Society of Jesus, stating the key purposes of the proposed religious order. The document was later revised in 1540 (approved in the papal bull
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More famous for their promulgated decrees, the General Congregations also feature important addresses, homilies, and statements–remarks that help guide the work of the Jesuit delegates assembled at the congregations but also the subsequent work at the Jesuit apostolates around the globe. Below is a selection of those addresses from the most recent General Congregations. For
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Ignatius of Loyola (or Iñigo Lopez de Oñaz y Loyola) wrote at least 7,000 letters during his lifetime. This voluminous correspondence includes his first extant letter, dated in 1518, and the last, dated the day before his death in 1556. The following are just a selection of the letters and instructions taken from Ignatius’s service
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