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31 - Jesuit Catechisms in Japan and India

from Part Three - Topics and Disciplines of Theology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2023

By
Haruko Nawata Ward
Edited by
Kenneth G Appold  and
Nelson Minnich
Kenneth G Appold
Affiliation:
Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey
Nelson Minnich
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
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Summary

From the sixteenth to early mid-seventeenth centuries the Society of Jesus in the Portuguese East Indies pioneered the missionary concept and practice of omnia omnibus. The theological views of Ignatius of Loyola, who founded the Society in 1540, formed Jesuit global missionary principles. The meditations in Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises depict an image of a missionary God in the divine act of self-sending and becoming incarnate.1 This God calls on the Jesuits to go and “help souls” of diverse persons in the whole “circuit of the world” by becoming like them.

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The Cambridge History of Reformation Era Theology , pp. 642 - 667
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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