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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Jesuits"”.
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The Jesuits history's most effective special operators
The Jesuits have made inroads to an astonishing number of societies, becoming firmly established in vastly disparate cultures. Sixteenth century Jesuit missions to China, India, and Japan appear to form a useful model for contemporary U.S. special operators seeking influence in infinitely different …
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Generalizing approaches in John Oldham's Satyrs upon the Jesuits
The general purpose of the study was to describe the present status of personnel administrators in selected Ohio school districts.
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Globalising China: Jesuits, Eurasian Exchanges, and the Early Modern Sciences
… in China. During the unstable interregnum, Jesuits sought patronage from disparate warring factions, offering their astronomical expertise to help various pretenders secure the “Mandate of Heaven” to rule legitimately over China, hoping to ensure their mission’s survival. By engaging with …
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Some aspects of the intellectual relations between Galileo and the Jesuits
… to 1623 (when Galileo published The Assayer) Jesuits of the Roman College made several attempts to draw Galileo into further discussion of his work. This was not with the intention of checking his obedience to the Decree, but in order to test the strength of any continuing work. The evidence …
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Investigating the Extent of Collaboration Between Jesuit Administrators and non-Jesuit Faculty and Staff in Jesuit Secondary Schools in the Eastern Africa Province: Staying True to Mission
… True to Mission</p> <p>The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) is well known for its educational institutions. Over the years, Jesuits have run excellent schools all over the world. However, Jesuits have also realized the increasing need to incorporate non-Jesuits more fully in their ministry. This …
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Confessional Politics and Religious Identity in the Early Jesuit Missions to the Ottoman Empire
… of the Ottoman Empire. In each instance, the Jesuits faced obstacles to their efforts to Catholicize the Christian Orient. Through an examination of the Jesuit experience in the early modern Ottoman Empire, I argue that particular historiographical trends concerning confession-building, early …
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The contribution of the Society of Jesus to secondary education in Liverpool : the history of the development of St. Francis Xavier's College, c.1840-1902
… centres in the British Empire forced the Jesuits to examine critically the type of education being dispensed in their Liverpool college. Rapidly the curriculum was extended away from its traditional base rooted in the Classics to embrace scientific and technical training. As a result of …
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The Protestant ethic and the spirit of modern public education : an analysis of the influence of Calvin and Ignatius in the sixteenth century
… between the approaches of the humanists and Jesuits to educational reform, an analysis of Calvin's presbyterian polity and theology of predestination, Ignatius' policy regarding the role of the Jesuits as compared and contrasted with Calvin's system, and the growing secularization of …
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Defending Christianity in China: the Jesuit defense of Christianity in the lettres edifiantes et Curieuses & Ruijianlu in relation to the Yongzheng proscription of 1724
Jesuits presented evidence in both French and Chinese to defend Christianity by citation of legal and historical precedents in favor of the "Teaching of the Lord of Heaven" (Catholicism) even after the Yongzheng Emperor's 1724 imperial edict proscribed the religion as a heterodox cult. The Jesuits' …
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K'ung-tzu or Confucius? The Jesuit interpretation of Confucianism
… response to the peculiar problems experienced by Jesuits in the Par East from the time of Francis Xavier on. Xavier and his successors were confronted by the same pressures of language and culture that had marked and to some extent frustrated earlier intrusions of foreign religions into China- …
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K'ung-tzu or Confucius? The Jesuit interpretation of Confucianism
… response to the peculiar problems experienced by Jesuits in the Par East from the time of Francis Xavier on. Xavier and his successors were confronted by the same pressures of language and culture that had marked and to some extent frustrated earlier intrusions of foreign religions into China- …
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Cultivating a Culture of Ignatian Pedagogy Among Faculty at Jesuit Universities
… on their path to leadership. Traditionally, Jesuits led students through the practice of Ignatian pedagogy, However, the number of Jesuits has declined over the last few decades, making it necessary for Jesuit institutions to rely on lay faculty and staff to carry forward their educational …
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À mes amis qui croient et à ceux qui croient ne pas croire: Natural Knowledge of God and the Propulsion of Reason in Henri de Lubac; A Re-assessment
… proximate reason for de Lubac’s censure by the Jesuits in 1950, which in turn perpetuated the continuing misconception. The present work of clarification proceeds by close analysis and re-assessment of de Lubac early writings, and his works on natural knowledge of God (Connaissance and Chemins), …
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Power, resistance and Spanish Residential School
… Industrial School, was administered by the Jesuits and the Daughters of the Heart of Mary and relocated to Spanish, Ontario in 1913. Various archival and printed sources have been used to reveal methods of disciplinary power that administrators used to reshape the Aboriginal students. …
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Solidarity According to the Thought of Fr. Pedro Arrupe and Its Application to Jesuit Higher Education Today
… As superior general, Arrupe sought to shape the Jesuits in the spirit of the vision of Vatican II, as well as the original charism of the founder of the Jesuit, St. Ignatius. The questions this dissertation seeks to answer is how Fr. Pedro Arrupe understood solidarity in light of his own life and …
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Jon Sobrino and Pope Francis: A new springtime for the preferential option for the poor/vulnerable?
… today, this thesis turns to two contemporary Jesuits: Jon Sobrino and Pope Francis. Sobrino is a Spaniard but has worked and continues to work as a missionary in El Salvador,in Latin America. Pope Francis is Argentinian. Before becoming Pope, he exercised his ministry in Latin America. This …
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