Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions

Klappentext Global study of the Society of Jesus's early missions. Zusammenfassung A global study of the Society of Jesus's early missions. Luke Clossey follows trails of personnel! money! relics and information between missions in seventeenth-century China! Germany and Mexico! and explores how the Jesuits understood their universal mission! demonstrating that the global perspective is essential to understanding the Jesuits. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Organizing the Society of Jesus; 3. Decentralizing the Society of Jesus; 4. Imagining global mission; 5. Space, time, and truth in the Jesuit psychology; 6. The missionary motivation; 7. The Jesuit missionary network; 8. The Jesuit financial network; 9. The Jesuit information network; 10. The Jesuit sacred economy; 11. An edifying end: Global salvific catholicism; Appendix A. Abbreviations for document sources; Appendix B. Chronological tables (1540-1722); Appendix C. Principal prosographical information; Appendix D. Monetary systems.`

Product details

• Authors: Luke Clossey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2011
• EAN: 9780521173261
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17326-1
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology; HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / World, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Missions, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christian mission & evangelism, Christianity, General & world history, History of Religion, Ancient History, General and world history, Church history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Religious mission and Religious Conversion