BookRix

Vast Importance Of The Jesuits In The Counter-Reformation--Ignatius
Loyola--His Youth--Retreat At Manresa--Journey To
Jerusalem--Studies In Spain And Paris--First Formation Of His Order
At Sainte Barbe--Sojourn At Venice--Settlement At Rome--Papal
Recognition Of The Order--Its Military Character--Absolutism Of The
General--Devotion To The Roman Church--Choice Of Members--Practical
And Positive Aims Of The Founder--Exclusion Of The Ascetic,
Acceptance Of The Worldly Spirit--Review Of The Order's Rapid
Extension Over Europe--Loyola's Dealings With His Chief
Lieutenants--Propaganda--The Virtue Of Obedience--The _Exercitia
Spiritualia_--Materialistic Imagination--Intensity And
Superficiality Of Religious Training--The Status Of The
Novice--Temporal Coadjutors--Scholastics--Professed Of The Three
Vows--Professed Of The Four Vows--The General--Control Exercised
Over Him By His Assistants--His Relation To The General
Congregation--Espionage A Part Of The Jesuit System--Advantageous
Position Of A Contented Jesuit--The Vow Of Poverty--Houses Of The
Professed And Colleges--The Constitutions And Declarations--Problem
Of The _Monita Secreta_--Reciprocal Relations Of Rome And The
Company--Characteristics Of Jesuit Education--Direction Of
Consciences--Moral Laxity--Sarpi's
Critique--Casuistry--Interference In Affairs Of State--Instigation
To Regicide And Political Conspiracy--Theories Of Church
Supremacy--Insurgence Of The European Nations Against The Company.