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Agustín Udías has published Jesuit Contribution to Science: A History, through Springer. The text is both a comprehensive account of Jesuits’ scientific contributions and an analysis of the spirituality underlying that scientific inquiry. Udías profiles individuals, such as: Angelo Secchi, Stephen J. Perry, James B. Macelwane and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.   Update: The Journal of […]

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

A Companion to Luis de Molina, edited by Matthias Kaufmann and Alexander Aichele, is now available through Brill. According to the publisher, Molina (1535-1600) “remains one of the most influential and least known authors of late scholasticism and early modern philosophy.” Chapters in the volume: The Real Possibility of Freedom, by Alexander Aichele; Divine Foreknowledge

Harvard University Press has published The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs by Emma Anderson (University of Ottawa), on the 1930 canonization of eight Jesuit missionaries who died in the 1640s, becoming North America’s first Catholic saints. Anderson, according to the publisher, explores “how Jesuit missionaries perceived their terrifying final hours, the work also seeks