Moral Theology, Culture of Counsel, and the Society of Jesus in the Seventeenth Century
This paper explores the connection between the early modern debates over Probabilism and political counsel. It argues that the issue of counsel was important in the polemics against Jesuit moral theology. Theological challenges to Probabilism clearly show that many intellectuals were worried it coul...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Brill
2017
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Journal of Jesuit studies
Έτος: 2017, Τόμος: 4, Τεύχος: 2, Σελίδες: 230-249 |
| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | CG Χριστιανισμός και Πολιτική KAH Εκκλησιαστική Ιστορία 1648-1913, Νεότερη Εποχή KCA Θρησκευτικά Τάγματα, Μοναχισμός KDB Καθολική Εκκλησία NCD Πολιτική Ηθική |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Probabilism –anti-Probabilism
confessionalization
political counsel
polemics
casuistry
Jesuits
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| Σύνοψη: | This paper explores the connection between the early modern debates over Probabilism and political counsel. It argues that the issue of counsel was important in the polemics against Jesuit moral theology. Theological challenges to Probabilism clearly show that many intellectuals were worried it could lead political counsellors astray and encourage them to defer to the whims of political authorities. This was not merely a theoretical issue. Three French cases evidence the fact that political counsellors could claim an obligation to put obedience to their sovereign before obedience to religious authority—the pope in particular—on religious grounds. The discussion between anti-probabilists and probabilists during the second half of the seventeenth century shows the degree of unrest among theological and ecclesiastical authorities confronted with the demands of the state on individual conscience, and on the conscience of counsellors in particular. |
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| ISSN: | 2214-1332 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | In: Journal of Jesuit studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00402005 |