Interpreting Obedience: Catechisms and Devotional Manuals by the Jesuits in Western Europe
(2013) A Textual Reformation? Catholicism after Trent — Location: Oxford (20.September.2013)
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- Interpreting Obedience : Cathechisms and Devotional Manuals by the Jesuits in Western Europe Reading Jan Machielsen’s Consultation document in order to set up my own paper, I found particularly interesting one of his questions: “How texts helped to interpret Catholic religious experience in Early moden period”. In Early Modern Europe, among different, possible experiences shared by Catholics, we can find the experience of Obedience. Obedience is a political and a religious virtue and the reflection on the hierarchical organization of heterogeneous loyalties is a focus point for theologians and confessors, as well as for jurists. In the specific case of my research on Jesuit Obedience, Jan’s question could sound: how Jesuit texts helped to interpret the catholic obedience’s experience? Today, my proposal is to follow Obedience, going through a range of texts written by Jesuits and read by Catholics (most of these texts have been Early modern best sellers). What happened to the nuanced and ambiguous obedience proposed by Jesuit Constitutions when this obedience become a fundamental attitude for Catholics living in different states of life?
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Mostaccio, S. (2013). Interpreting Obedience: Catechisms and Devotional Manuals by the Jesuits in Western Europe. A Textual Reformation? Catholicism after Trent, Oxford. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/194452