Jesuit Political Thought: The Society of Jesus and the State, C.1540 1630

How did the Society of Jesus develop and maintain a distinctive position on key questions of political thought such as ruler authority, the character and scope of positive law, the limits of obedience and the right to resist? Harro Hopfl presents a full-length study of the secular world--analyzed in its proper historical context--from a Jesuit perspective. Despite the significance of the Society of Jesus in Counter-Reformation Europe and beyond, important issues relating to the society's collective history remain misunderstood.

Author: Harro Höpfl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/01/2004
Pages: 428
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.83lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.48w x 1.23d
ISBN: 9780521837798

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2005 pg. 1662

About the Author
Höpfl, Harro: - Harro Hopfl is one of the leading historians of ideas writing in Britain today.

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