A01=Robert Aleksander Maryks
Ad Quintum Fratrem
Alexander VII
Author_Robert Aleksander Maryks
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classical humanism influence
confession
confessional manuals analysis
conscience formation
De Arte Rhetorica
De Ortu
De Partitione Oratoria
Duvergier De Hauranne
early modern Catholicism
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gian Paolo Brizzi
Jesuit Confessors
Jesuit Constitutions
Jesuit education impact on ethics
Jesuit Manuals
Jesuit moral theology
Jesuit Probabilism
Julius III
King John III
medina
moral
opinions
Pope Innocent XI
Pope Paul III
Prima Secundae
probabilism
probable
Probable Opinion
Provincial Letters
ratio
Ratio Studiorum
Roman College
sacramental
Sacramental Confession
studiorum
Theologiae Moralis
theology
tutiorism versus probabilism
Unnatural Sin
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754662938
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Aug 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this commanding study, Dr Maryks offers a detailed analysis of early modern Jesuit confessional manuals to explore the order's shifting attitudes to confession and conscience. Drawing on his census of Jesuit penitential literature published between 1554 and 1650, he traces in these works a subtly shifting theology influenced by both theology and classical humanism. In particular, the roles of 'Tutiorism' (whereby an individual follows the law rather than the instinct of their own conscience) and 'Probabilism' (which conversely gives priority to the individual's conscience) are examined. It is argued that for most of the sixteenth century, books such as Juan Alfonso de Polanco's Directory for Confessors espousing a Tutiorist line dominated the market for Jesuit confessional manuals until the seventeenth century, by which time Probabilism had become the dominating force in Jesuit theology. What caused this switch, from Tutiorism to Probablism, forms the central thesis of Dr Maryks' book. He believes that as a direct result of the Jesuits adoption of a new ministry of educating youth in the late 1540s, Jesuit schoolmasters were compelled to engage with classical culture, many aspects of which would have resonated with their own concepts of spirituality. In particular Ciceronian humanitas and civiltà , along with rhetorical principles of accommodation, influenced Jesuit thinking in the revolutionary transition from medieval Tutiorism to modern Probabilism. By integrating concepts of theology, classical humanism and publishing history, this book offers a compelling account of how diverse forces could act upon a religious order to alter the central beliefs it held and promulgated. This book is published in conjunction with the Jesuit Historical Institute series 'Bibliotheca Instituti Historici Societatis Iesu'.
Robert Aleksander Maryks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the City University of New York.
