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Zusatztext Tutino's newest book is an eminent contribution to intellectual history, and a necessary antidote to the caricatures of probabilism floating around in handbooks of ethics and theology. This is an exciting reading adventure into a world where uncertainty was not feared but dealt with creatively. Informationen zum Autor Stefania Tutino is a historian of post-Reformation Catholicism. She is currently Professor of Early Modern History at UCLA and has published on Catholic political thought, and on the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Catholicism. Klappentext This book provides a historical account of early modern probabilism and its theological, intellectual, and cultural implications. Tutino argues that probabilism played a central role in helping early modern theologians grapple with the uncertainties originated by a geographically and intellectually expanding world. Zusammenfassung This book provides a historical account of early modern probabilism and its theological, intellectual, and cultural implications. First developed in the second half of the sixteenth century, probabilism represented a significant and controversial novelty in Catholic moral theology. By the second half of the seventeenth century, and thanks in part to Pascal's influential anti-probabilist stances, probabilism had become inextricably linked to the Society of Jesus and to a laxist system of morality, which emphasized and exploited the elasticity of moral rules. To this day, most scholars of early modern religious history either ignore probabilism, or associate it with moral duplicity and intellectual and cultural decadence. Uncertainty in Post-Reformation Catholicism argues that probabilism played a central role in addressing the challenges that a geographically and intellectually expanding world posed to traditional Catholic theology. Early modern probabilist theologians realized that their time was characterized by many changes and novelties that traditional theology was not equipped to deal with, and that consequently provoked an exponential growth of uncertainties, doubts, and dilemmas of conscience. These theologians used probabilism as a means to integrate changes and novelties within the post-Reformation Catholic theological and intellectual system. Seen in this light, probabilism represented the result of their attempts to appreciate, come to terms with, and manage uncertainty. The problem of uncertainty was not only crucial then, but remains central even today. Despite the unprecedented amount of information available to us, we are becoming less able to formulate arguments based on facts, and more dependent on a cacophony of opinions that often simply reproduce our own implicit or explicit biases, prejudices, and preconceived preferences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Preface Chapter 1: The Building Blocks Chapter 2: The Genesis of Probabilism Chapter 3: Jesuit Probabilism: The Theoretical Cornerstones Chapter 4: Different Shades of Seventeenth-Century Probabilism Chapter 5: "Nihil scio certo, and tamen ob incerta non doceo": Mature Probabilism Chapter 6: The Roman Reaction: Anti-Probabilist Pressures, Doctrinal Ambiguities, and Institutional Needs Chapter 7: Reason of State(s) and Reasons of Church: the Case of Honoré Fabri Chapter 8: Jesuits vs. Jesuits: the Case of Alberto de Albertis Chapter 9: Time Goes on Crutches till Love have all his Rites: Marriages in East Asia Chapter 10: Buying with You, Selling with You, Praying with You: the Goods of Converted Jews Chapter 11: All That Live Must Die, Passing through Nature to Eternity: Baptizing Fetuses Conclusion: The End of Probabilism? Index ...
