{"id":4069,"date":"2018-04-24T16:21:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T16:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=4069"},"modified":"2019-01-04T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T14:00:42","slug":"april-2018-vieiras-sermons-now-available-in-english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=4069","title":{"rendered":"April 2018: Vieira&#8217;s Sermons Now Available in English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford University Press has published English translations of six sermons by Jesuit missionary Ant\u00f3nio Vieira.\u00a0M\u00f3nica Leal da Silva and Liam Brockey edited and translated <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/antnio-vieira-9780190858568?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Ant\u00f3nio Vieira: Six Sermons<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vieira was born in Portugal in 1608 and worked in both Europe and Brazil as a Jesuit, long remembered for his sermons on &#8220;social and spiritual matters.&#8221;\u00a0According to the publisher, the new publication provides the &#8220;first English translation and annotations&#8221; of &#8220;Vieira&#8217;s sermons on slavery, colonial society, and the art of preaching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The six sermons profiled in this new book are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sermon for the Success of the Arms of Portugal against those of Holland (on God&#8217;s &#8220;apparent abandonment of the Portuguese&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Sermon of St. Anthony\u00a0 (on the &#8220;inequities he witnessed in Brazil&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>The Sexagesima Sermon (on a &#8220;more effective, if harsher, style of preaching&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Sermon of the Good Thief (a rebuke of imperial officials seeking personal enrichment)<\/li>\n<li>Sermon XXVII of the cycle called Maria Rosa M\u00edstica (an attempt to comfort African slaves and to admonish the brutality of their Brazilian masters)<\/li>\n<li>Arm, Sermon IX of the cycle called Xavier Acordado (a tribute to Francis Xavier that recounts &#8220;the story of the relic of Francis Xavier&#8217;s arm sent from India to Italy in 1614&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More details about\u00a0<em>Ant\u00f3nio Vieira: Six Sermons<\/em> are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/antnio-vieira-9780190858568?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oxford University Press<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford University Press has published English translations of six sermons by Jesuit missionary Ant\u00f3nio Vieira.\u00a0M\u00f3nica Leal da Silva and Liam Brockey edited and translated Ant\u00f3nio Vieira: Six Sermons. &nbsp; Vieira was born in Portugal in 1608 and worked in both Europe and Brazil as a Jesuit, long remembered for his sermons on &#8220;social and spiritual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127185,"featured_media":4937,"parent":888,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-standard.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4069","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4074,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4069\/revisions\/4074"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}