History of the Jesuits: Their origin, progress, doctrines, and designs
Jesuit Expansion, Missionary Power, Suppression, and Papal PoliticsBy G. B. Nicolini
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G. B. Nicolini's History of the Jesuits: Their Origin, Progress, Doctrines, and Designs presents a comprehensive, openly critical account of the Society of Jesus, tracing its foundation under Ignatius of Loyola, its rapid international expansion, intellectual methods, educational institutions, political interventions, and eventual suppression and restoration. Combining chronological narrative with doctrinal and institutional analysis, the work belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of confessional historiography, in which historical writing also served as an argument about religious authority and public power. Its rhetoric is vigorous and prosecutorial, yet its ambition is scholarly: to interpret Jesuit activity as a coherent historical strategy rather than as a series of isolated controversies. Nicolini writes from the perspective of a Protestant or liberal critic of Roman Catholic ultramontanism, a standpoint shaped by the religious and political conflicts that marked nineteenth-century Europe. His interest in the Jesuits reflects contemporary anxieties concerning clerical influence, papal sovereignty, education, censorship, and the relationship between ecclesiastical obedience and national independence. These concerns help explain the book's emphasis on the order's "designs," as well as its sustained scrutiny of Jesuit casuistry, political theology, and methods of discipline. This volume will particularly reward readers interested in the Reformation's long aftermath, Catholic institutional history, and the formation of modern anti-Jesuit discourse. Although its judgments are partisan and should be read alongside more sympathetic scholarship, Nicolini's work remains valuable as evidence of how the Society was represented by its nineteenth-century opponents. It offers both a vivid historical narrative and a revealing document of the era's struggle over religion, sovereignty, education, and intellectual authority.
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GenreHistory
Length12 hrs 17 mins
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Publish dateNov 25, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux (Annotated)
2CHAPTER I. 1500-40. ORIGIN OF THE ORDER.
3CHAPTER II. 1540-52. CONSTITUTIONS OF THE SOCIETY.[17]
4I. THE NOVICES.
5II. THE SCHOLARS.
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6III. COADJUTORS.
7IV. THE PROFESSED.
8V. THE PROVINCIALS.
9VI. RECTORS, SUPERIORS, AND ADMINISTRATORS.
10CHAPTER IV. 1541-48. THE PROGRESS OF THE ORDER, AND ITS FIRST GENERAL.
11CHAPTER V. 1547-1631. THE FEMALE JESUITS.
12CHAPTER VI. 1548-56. THE FIRST OPPOSITION TO THE ORDER, AND DEATH OF LOYOLA.
13CHAPTER VII. 1541-1774. MISSIONS.
14CHAPTER VIII. 1556-1581. THE SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH GENERALS OF THE ORDER.
15ENGLAND.
16PORTUGAL.
17FRANCE.
18GERMANY.
19POLAND.
20SWEDEN.
21SWITZERLAND AND PIEDMONT.
22CHAPTER X. 1581-1608. COMMOTION AMONG THE JESUITS.
23CHAPTER XI. 1600-1700. DOCTRINES AND MORAL CODE OF THE JESUITS.
24CHAPTER XII. 1608-1700. OVERGROWING INFLUENCE OF THE SOCIETY.
25CHAPTER XIII. 1600-1753. AMERICAN MISSIONS.
26CHAPTER XIV. 1617-1700. INTERNAL CAUSES OF DECLINE.
27CHAPTER XV. 1700-1772. DOWNFALL OF THE JESUITS.
28CHAPTER XVI. 1773. ABOLITION OF THE ORDER.
29CHAPTER XVII. 1774. DEATH OF CLEMENT XIV.
30CHAPTER XVIII. 1773-1814. THE JESUITS DURING THEIR SUPPRESSION.
31CHAPTER XIX. 1814. RE-ESTABLISHMENT.
32CHAPTER XX. 1848-1852. THE JESUITS IN AND AFTER 1848.
33CONCLUSION.
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