Jesuit Political Thought - The Society of Jesus and the State, C.1540-1630

Informationen zum Autor Harro Hopfl is one of the leading historians of ideas writing in Britain today. Klappentext Pioneering study of Jesuit thinking exploring the society's position on key questions of political thought. Zusammenfassung Despite the significance of the Society of Jesus in Counter-Reformation Europe and beyond, important issues relating to the society's collective history are little understood. Harro Höpfl presents a pioneering study of Jesuit thinking, exploring how far the society developed and maintained a distinctive position on key questions of political thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The character and work of the society of Jesus; 2. The society's organizational ideas; 3. The church, the society and heresy; 4. Jesuit reason of state and religious uniformity; 5. Jesuit reason of state and Fides; 6. Reason of state, prudence and the academic curriculum; 7. The theory of political authority; 8. Limited government, compacts and the states of nature; 9. The theory of law; 10. The common good and individual rights; 11. Tyrannicide, the oath of allegiance controversy and the assassination of Henri IV; 12. The Papal Potestas Indirecta.

Product details

• Authors: Harro H. Pfl, Harro H¿pfl, Harro Hopfl
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.06.2008
• EAN: 9780521066754
• ISBN: 978-0-521-06675-4
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education