Jesuit Astrology

Author : Luís Campos Ribeiro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004548954
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesuit Astrology written by Luís Campos Ribeiro and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the role of astrology in the Society of Jesus, offering a new perspective into early modern Jesuit culture, science, and education by highlighting an element that has been long overlooked: astrology.

Author : Luís Campos Ribeiro
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004548971
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesuit Astrology written by Luís Campos Ribeiro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connections between the Society of Jesus and astrology used to appear as unexpected at best. Astrology was never viewed favourably by the Church, especially in early modern times, and since Jesuits were strong defenders of Catholic orthodoxy, most historians assumed that their religious fervour would be matched by an equally strong rejection of astrology. This groundbreaking and compelling study brings to light new Jesuit scientific texts revealing a much more positive, practical, and nuanced attitude. What emerges forcefully is a totally new perspective into early modern Jesuit culture, science, and education, highlighting the element that has been long overlooked: astrology.

Author : John W. O'Malley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802038611
Total Pages : 945 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jesuits II written by John W. O'Malley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying DVD includes the opera Patientis Christi memoria by Johann Bernhard Staudt, performed in the chapel of St. Mary's Hall, Boston College.

Author : Francisco Malta Romeiras
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004382364
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesuits and the Book of Nature written by Francisco Malta Romeiras and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesuits and the Book of Nature: Science and Education in Modern Portugal offers an account of the Jesuits’ contributions to science and education after the restoration of the Society of Jesus in Portugal in 1858.

Author : Paul F. Grendler
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801897831
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga, and the Jesuits, 1584–1630 written by Paul F. Grendler and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-07-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universities were driving forces of change in late Renaissance Italy. The Gonzaga, the ruling family of Mantua, had long supported scholarship and dreamed of founding an institution of higher learning within the city. In the early seventeenth century they joined forces with the Jesuits, a powerful intellectual and religious force, to found one of the most innovative universities of the time. Paul F. Grendler provides the first book in any language about the Peaceful University of Mantua, its official name. He traces the efforts of Duke Ferdinando Gonzaga, a prince savant who debated Galileo, as he made his family’s dream a reality. Ferdinando negotiated with the Jesuits, recruited professors, and financed the school. Grendler examines the motivations of the Gonzaga and the Jesuits in the establishment of a joint civic and Jesuit university. The University of Mantua lasted only six years, lost during the brutal sack of the city by German troops in 1630. Despite its short life, the university offered original scholarship and teaching. It had the first professorship of chemistry more than 100 years before any other Italian university. The leading professor of medicine identified the symptoms of angina pectoris 140 years before an English scholar named the disease. The star law professor advanced new legal theories while secretly spying for James I of England. The Jesuits taught humanities, philosophy, and theology in ways both similar to and different from lay professors. A superlative study of education, politics, and culture in seventeenth-century Italy, this book reconsiders a period in Italy’s history often characterized as one of feckless rulers and stagnant learning. Thanks to extensive archival research and a thorough examination of the published works of the university's professors, Grendler's history tells a new story.

Author : Robin Bruce Barnes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199736057
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Astrology and Reformation written by Robin Bruce Barnes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference During the sixteenth century, no part of the Christian West saw the development of a more powerful and pervasive astrological culture than the very home of the Reformation movement--the Protestant towns of the Holy Roman Empire. While most modern approaches to the religious and social reforms of that age give scant attention to cosmological preoccupations, Robin Barnes argues that astrological concepts and imagery played a key role in preparing the ground for the evangelical movement sparked by Martin Luther in the 1520s, as well as in shaping the distinctive characteristics of German evangelical culture over the following century. Spreading above all through cheap printed almanacs and prognostications, popular astrology functioned in paradoxical ways. It contributed to an enlarged and abstracted sense of the divine that led away from clericalism, sacramentalism, and the cult of the saints; at the same time, it sought to ground people more squarely in practical matters of daily life. The art gained unprecedented sanction from Luther's closest associate, Philipp Melanchthon, whose teachings influenced generations of preachers, physicians, schoolmasters, and literate layfolk. But the apocalyptic astrology that came to prevail among evangelicals involved a perpetuation, even a strengthening, of ties between faith and cosmology, which played out in beliefs about nature and natural signs that would later appear as rank superstitions. Not until the early seventeenth century did Luther's heirs experience a "crisis of piety" that forced preachers and stargazers to part ways. Astrology and Reformation illuminates an early modern outlook that was both practical and prophetic; a world that was neither traditionally enchanted nor rationally disenchanted, but quite different from the medieval world of perception it had displaced.

Author : Denis De Lucca
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004216510
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesuits and Fortifications written by Denis De Lucca and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on the role of Jesuit mathematicians in the widespread dissemination of ideas about military architecture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by means of teaching, writings and consultancy activities aimed at assisting Catholic leaders in their wars against protestants and infidels.

Author : Litian Swen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004447016
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesuit Mission and Submission: Qing Rulership and the Fate of Christianity in China, 1644-1735 written by Litian Swen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book uncovers the Jesuits’ master-slave relation with Emperor Kangxi. Against the backdrop of this relationship, the book narrates Kangxi-Pope negotiations (1705-1721) regarding Chinese Rites Controversy and redefines the rise and fall of the Christian mission in early Qing China.

Author : Nicholas Campion
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317177789
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West written by Nicholas Campion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores an area of contemporary religion, spirituality and popular culture which has not so far been investigated in depth, the phenomenon of astrology in the modern west. Locating modern astrology historically and sociologically in its religious, New Age and millenarian contexts, Nicholas Campion considers astrology's relation to modernity and draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews with leading modern astrologers to present an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the origins and nature of New Age ideology. This book challenges the notion that astrology is either 'marginal' or a feature of postmodernism. Concluding that astrology is more popular than the usual figures suggest, Campion argues that modern astrology is largely shaped by New Age thought, influenced by the European Millenarian tradition, that it can be seen as an heir to classical Gnosticism and is part of the vernacular religion of the modern west.

Author : Gigliola Fragnito
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521661720
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy written by Gigliola Fragnito and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2001 essay collection on the Italian Church's attempt to control and censor 'knowledge' during the counter-Reformation.