News in Jesuit Studies
The following are notices of significant events related to the field of Jesuit Studies.
The notices appear chronologically, and all entries are indexed into the Portal’s search capabilities.
To contribute news of significant publications and events, both recent and forthcoming, please contact the Portal’s editors (jesuitportal@bc.edu)
Applications are now accepted for three online courses offered by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies in 2019-2020. See here for an informational flyer.
Course Information
Social Justice in Jesuit Contexts takes place in Fall 2019. Led by Cristiano Casalini, the course examines the changing role of social justice throughout the history of the Society of Jesus and how Jesuits have understood their role to promote liberation from oppression as they have sought to fulfill “the service of faith and the promotion of justice.”
Jesuit Pedagogy, offered in Spring 2020 and also led by Casalini, considers the development of Jesuit educational endeavors and the tension between uniformity and adaptability that has led to the unprecedented success of Jesuit education.
Also offered in Spring 2020, Spiritual Exercises: Contents, Context, and Practice explores the dynamic of the Spiritual Exercises and seeks to answer the question: How might greater knowledge of the Spiritual Exercises assist both in the formation of souls and a greater sense of mission for the building of God’s kingdom? The course is taught by Casey Beaumier, S.J., director of the Institute.
Application Process
Each course is three credits, with associated tuition, and financial assistance is available. Though credits may be applied towards a Certificate in Jesuit Studies, participants do not have to be enrolled in the certificate program to apply. If you have already participated in courses or if you are a Boston College student, please contact the Institute to indicate your interest.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Enrollment in each course is limited to 25 students.
To apply, please email (iajs@bc.edu)
– a statement of purpose (1,000-1,500 words), explaining what you hope to gain from the course
– a current CV, with your educational background
– and the name and contact information for the person recommending your application
And please arrange to have one letter of recommendation submitted directly by the recommender.
Questions
Please direct any questions to the Institute either by e-mail (iajs@bc.edu with “Certificate Program” as the subject) or by phone (617-552-2568).
More information is available on the Institute’s website: https://www.bc.edu/centers/iajs/Programs/Certificate-In-Jesuit-Studies/Courses.html
On April 29, Burns Library and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies host a roundtable discussion at Boston College examining the “functions of sacred objects in three very different Jesuit missions from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries – England, China, and Northeastern America.”
“Material Cultures of Devotion in Early Modern Jesuit Missions” features presentations by Aislinn Muller, currently an Institute Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, and by Eugenio Menegon and Laura Masur, both of Boston University. The discussion will be moderated by James O’Toole, who holds the Clough Millennium Chair in History at Boston College.
The three presentations will “compare the devotional, social, and sometimes political significance that sacred objects acquired in different geographical and cultural circumstances.” Burns Library will also display some of the relics and sacramental objects from its Liturgy and Life Collection, a unique collection of historical devotional materials donated by Catholic communities across the United States.
More information is available at http://events.bc.edu/event/roundtable_discussion_material_cultures_of_devotion_in_early_modern_jesuit_missions
Selected proceedings from the 2018 International Symposium on Jesuit Studies have been published in a new, bilingual volume in Brill’s Jesuit Studies book series. Francisco Suárez (1548–1617): Jesuits and the Complexities of Modernity consists of 19 essays over five categories: Metaphysics; Religion, Law, Society; Political Theories; Psychology; and Legacy. The full table of contents appear below.
The volume, co-edited by Robert Maryks and Juan Antonio Senent de Frutos, emerged from an international symposium on the thought of Suárez. The event was co-organized in Seville, Spain, by the Departamento de Humanidades y Filosofía at Universidad Loyola Andalucía and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College. “Suárez,” according to the publisher, “was a theologian, philosopher and jurist who had a significant cultural impact on the development of modernity. Commemorating the four-hundredth anniversary of his death, the symposium studied the work of Suárez and other Jesuits of his time in the context of diverse traditions that came together in Europe between the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and early modernity.”
Preface
By: Robert Aleksander Maryks
Introducción
By: Juan Antonio Senent-De Frutos
Metaphysics
Francisco Suárez’s Metaphysics of Cognitive Acts
By: Daniel Heider
Suárez on Substantial Forms: a Heroic Last Stand?
By: Sydney Penner
Intrinsic Being or the Formal Structures of Thought? The Grounding of Possibility in Francisco Suárez’s Metaphysics
By: Matthew Z. Vale
En contra del esencialismo: Ente real y existencia en Suárez
By: Ángel Poncela González
Religion, Law, Society
Francisco Suárez: Religious Freedom and International Law
By: Robert Fastiggi
Francisco Suárez on Religion and Religious Pluralism
By: Aaron Pidel S.J.
Encarnación y subsistencia en las Disputaciones metafísicas de Francisco Suárez: Algunas cuestiones en torno a los fundamentos de la modernidad
By: Julio Söchting
Settling Law: Francisco Suárez’s Theory of Custom for Contemporary Contexts
By: Elisabeth Rain Kincaid
Political Theories
Francisco Suárez y la posibilidad de intervención pública en asuntos sociales
By: Luis-Carlos Amezúa Amezúa
Beyond Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Finding Resources in Francisco Suárez’s Political Theology
By: Liam de los Reyes
Entrega del poder al gobernante y esclavitud voluntaria de la comunidad política en Francisco Suárez: Una interpretación desde los límites fácticos al poder
By: Pablo Font Oporto
Francisco Suárez y la propaganda político-apocalíptica en la Inglaterra de Jacobo i: El libro V de la Defensio fidei; El Anticristo
By: Pilar Pena Búa
Francisco Suárez: Absolutist or Constitutionalist?
By: Szilárd Tattay
Psychology
El sí mismo desde Suárez y el valor moral de los hábitos
By: Giannina Burlando
Separated Soul and Its Nature: Francisco Suárez in the Scholastic Debate
By: Simone Guidi
Doctrinal Divergences on the Nature of Human Composite in Two Commentaries on Aristotle’s De anima (Anonymous, Cod. 2399 bguc and Francisco Suárez): New Material on the Jesuit School of Coimbra and the Cursus Conimbricensis
By: Paula Oliveira e Silva and João Rebalde
Suárez, Maquiavelo y una moderna noción de prudencia: Derivaciones políticas en la obra de Diego de Saavedra Fajardo
By: Nicolás Vivalda
Legacy
Francisco Suárez and John Locke on Rights and Alienability: a Critical Conversation
By: Catherine Sims Kuiper
La imposible teología política: Gobierno y justicia en Francisco Suárez
By: Lorenzo Rustighi