News in Jesuit Studies
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The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies calls for applications for its in-residence fellowships to facilitate the completion and/or publication of academic work related to the Society of Jesus.
Applications are now welcomed from scholars in the fields of history, spirituality, and pedagogy, among others. The submission deadline is January 15, 2018.
The Institute offers two types of in-residence fellowships for the 2018-19 academic year:
- an Institute Fellowship, a year-long appointment (September-May) with a stipend of $20,000 and private, furnished housing
- a Senior Research Fellowship, a semester-long appointment with a stipend of $12,000 and private, furnished housing
In addition to the stipend and housing, the fellowships come with office space at the Institute. Additional support for research-related travel during the residency may be available. The positions do not have teaching responsibilities.
Questions can be directed to the Institute (iajs@bc.edu, with “fellowship” as the subject).
To learn more more about the fellowships offered by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, please visit the Institute’s website.
Oxford University Press has published Uncertainty in Post-Reformation Catholicism: A History of Probabilism by Stefania Tutino. The book examines the development and implications of probablism, a moral theology first articulated in the sixteenth century that, according to Oxford, “maintained that in situations of uncertainty, the agent can legitimately follow any course of action supported by a probable opinion, no matter how disputable.”
Within a century of its origin, probablism became closely with the Jesuits. Chapters in this book focused on the Society of Jesus include an examination of the “theoretical cornerstones” of Jesuit thought as well as the debated within the Society about the case of Honoré Fabri, a seventeenth-century French theologian and scientist. A proponent of probabilism, Fabri was the author of, among other titles, Honorati Fabri, Societatis Jesu, apolgeticus doctrinæ moralis ejusdem Societatis (1670, 1672), the second edition of which was placed on the Index of Forbidden Books.
Tutino, a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, argues that “probabilism was instrumental for addressing the challenges created by a geographically and intellectually expanding world,” employed by theologians who wished to “integrate changes and novelties within the post-Reformation Catholic theological and intellectual system.”
More information about Uncertainty in Post-Reformation Catholicism is available on the Oxford University Press website.
On December 6, 2017, the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana di Scienze Lettere e Arti hosts a conference to mark the bicentennial of the death of Jesuit scholar Juan Andrés (1740-1817). Andrés, born in Spain, was a prominent Christian humanist and literary critic.
The conference in Mantua, Italy features nine presentations over two sessions. A program, appearing below, is available online.
Juan Andrés (1740-1817) nel bicentenario dalla morte
Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana di Scienze Lettere e Arti
Program
Introduzione di Piero Gualtierotti, Presidente dell’Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana
Session 1
- Coordina: Roberto Navarrini, Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana
- L’opera enciclopedica di Juan Andrés e l’Illuminismo ispano-italiano, Pedro Aullón de Haro e Davide Mombelli, Università di Alicante-Instituto Juan Andrés de Comparatística y Globalización
- Un pubblico per Juan Andrés: dissertazioni di filosofia ed educazione all’accademia (1768-1774), Cristiano Casalini, Boston College e Laura Madella, Università di Roma Tre
- Lettere Familiari. I viaggi di Juan Andrés in Italia, Maurizio Fabbri, Università di Bologna, Centro di Studi sul Settecento Spagnolo
- Epistolario di Juan Andrés, Livia Brunori, Università di Bologna, Centro di Studi sul Settecento Spagnolo
Session 2
- Coordina: Eugenio Camerlenghi, Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana
- Juan Andrés e la caduta dei gravi in Galileo, Ledo Stefanini, Università di Pavia, Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana
- Le osservazioni geologico-naturalistiche di Juan Andrés nei suoi viaggi in Italia, Fulvio Baraldi, Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana
- L’idea di progresso delle scienze in Juan Andrés, Renato Marocchi, Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana
- Juan Andrés. Catalogo dei codici manoscritti della famiglia Capilupi di Mantova, Raffaele Tamalio, Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana
- Juan Andrés e la tradizione razionalistica nella cultura mantovana, Maurizio Bertolotti, Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana