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Jesuit Political Thought

The Society of Jesus and the State, C.1540-1630

  • Paperback
  • 428 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm

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Harro Hopfl presents here a full-length study of the single most influential organized group of scholars and pamphleteers in early modern Europe (1540-1630), namely the Jesuits. He explores the academic and political controversies in which they were engaged in and their contribution to academic discourse around ideas of 'the state' and 'politics'. He pays particular attention to their actual teaching concerning doctrines for whose menacing practical implications Jesuits generally were vilified: notably tyrannicide, the papal power to depose rulers, the legitimacy of 'Machiavellian' policies in dealing with heretics and the justifiability of breaking faith with heretics. Hopfl further explores the paradox of the Jesuits' political activities being at once the subject of conspiratorial fantasies but at the same time being widely acknowledged as among the foremost intellects of their time, with their thought freely cited and appropriated. This is an important work of scholarship.
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  • Author

    Harro Hopfl (lancaster University)

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    June 2008

  • Weight

    627g

  • Page Count

    428

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521066754

  • ISBN-10

    0521066751

  • Eden Code

    1151403

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