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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Höpfl, Harro
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Series:Ideas in context ; 70.
Subjects:
Jesuits > History > 16th century.
Jesuits > History > 17th century.
Jésuites > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Jésuites > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Jesuits.
1500-1699
Church and state > Catholic Church > History > 16th century.
Church and state > Catholic Church > History > 17th century.
Église et État > Église catholique > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Église et État > Église catholique > Histoire > 17e siècle.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Church and state > Catholic Church.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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