News in Jesuit Studies

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September 2014: New Title on Jesuits and Science

Agustín Udías has published Jesuit Contribution to Science: A History, through Springer. The text is both a comprehensive account of Jesuits’ scientific contributions and an analysis of the spirituality underlying that scientific inquiry. Udías profiles individuals, such as: Angelo Secchi, Stephen J. Perry, James B. Macelwane and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

 
June 2014: New Socioeconomic History of the Guaraní

Julia Sarreal’s The Guaraní and Their Missions: A Socioeconomic History is now available through Stanford University Press. To examine the thirty Jesuit missions in the Rio de la Plata, Sarreal uses mission account books and other materials to consider the missions’ “work regime” and the Guaraní’s ability to shape the mission economy. Such archival materials, the publisher notes, “enable the author to poke holes in longheld beliefs about Jesuit mission management and offer original arguments regarding the Bourbon reforms that ultimately made the missions unsustainable.”

 
December 2013: Molina Companion Available

A Companion to Luis de Molina, edited by Matthias Kaufmann and Alexander Aichele, is now available through Brill. According to the publisher, Molina (1535-1600) “remains one of the most influential and least known authors of late scholasticism and early modern philosophy.” Chapters in the volume:

  • The Real Possibility of Freedom, by Alexander Aichele;
  • Divine Foreknowledge of Future Contingents and Necessity, by Petr Dvorak;
  • Predestination as Transcendent Teleology: Molina and the First Molinism, by Juan Cruz Cruz;
  • Rights and dominium, by Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp;
  • Luis de Molina on Law and Power, by Annabel Brett;
  • Slavery between Law, Morality, and Economy, by Matthias Kaufmann;
  • Luis de Molina: On War, by Joao Manuel A. A. Fernandes;
  • The Economic Thought of Luis de Molina, by Rudolf Schüssler;
  • Molina and Aquinas, by Rev. Romanus Cessario, OP;
  • Molina and John Duns Scotus, by Jean-Pascal Anfray;
  • The Philosophical Impact of Molinism in the 17th century, by Francesco Piro;
  • “Ludewig” Molina and Kant’s Libertarian Compatibilism, by Wolfgang Ertl.