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Jesuit political thought : the Society of Jesus and the state, c. 1540-1640 /

Harro Höpfl presents here a full-length study of the single most influential organized group of scholars and pamphleteers in early modern Europe (1540-1630), namely the Jesuits. He explores the academic and political controversies in which they were engaged in and their contribution to academic dis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Höpfl, Harro
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Colección:Ideas in context ; 70.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. character of the society of Jesus
  • 2. society's organisational ideas
  • 3. society and political matters
  • 4. church, the society, and heresy
  • 5. confrontation with reason of state
  • 6. Reason of state and religious uniformity
  • 7. Jesuit reason of state and fides
  • 8. Reason of state, prudence, and the academic curriculum
  • 9. theory of political authority
  • 10. Limited government, compacts, and states of nature
  • 11. theory of law
  • 12. common good and individual rights
  • 13. Tyrannicide, the oath of allegiance controversy, and the assassination of Henri IV
  • 14. papal potestas indirecta.