The Second Jesuits
The Society of Jesus After Ignatius
$93.50
- Hardcover
372 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2027
Summary
Ignatius of Loyola founded the Society of Jesus, but it was his successors who cemented the order’s place in history.
In The Second Jesuits, Thomas Flowers, S.J., argues that the Society of Jesus’s survival and global identity depended on its second generation, a group of twenty men he labels the “Second Jesuits.” Following the death of Ignatius in 1556, the order entered a period of profound vulnerability because its constitutions had not yet been approved and formally promu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780268211714 |
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| ISBN-10: | 026821171X |
| Author: | Thomas Flowers |
| Publisher: | University of Notre Dame Press |
| Imprint: | University of Notre Dame Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 372 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“Thomas Flowers’s The Second Jesuits—arriving over three decades after John O’Malley’s pioneering The First Jesuits—advances its predecessor’s project of restoring historical contingency to the Society of Jesus’s origins and evolution. Deeply researched and elegantly written, this study will be required reading for anyone interested in the Society’s origins.” - Stephen Schloesser, S.J., author of Visions of Amen
Thomas Flowers
Thomas Flowers, S.J., is a Jesuit priest and serves as assistant professor of Ignatian formation in the College of Philosophy and Letters at Saint Louis University and assistant rector at Bellarmine House of Studies, a formation community of the Society of Jesus. His most recent book is The Reform of Christian Doctrine in the Catechisms of Peter Canisius.
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