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We watch as the Society grows into Christendom's most powerful order, and as the Black Legend of a calculating, Machiavellian Jesuitry leads to its abolition in 1773 (it was restored forty years later). We see the great characters of history and culturePascal, Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Catherine the Greatplay their parts. One of Jean Lacouture's most poignant portraits is of the twentieth century's most famous and beloved Jesuit, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a scientist-priest whose humanistic conclusions put him at odds with the Church. Lacouture's wide-ranging narrative illuminates Pope John XXIII's reforms and the Jesuit-inspired liberation theology movements in Central and South America. With the papacy of John Paul II, a riveting drama unfolds as the Jesuits are brought under new constraints.

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• Full title: Jesuits: A Multibiography
• Author: Jean Lacouture, Jeremy Leggatt
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 582
• EAN: 9781887178600
• ISBN: 1887178600
• ID: 12473402
• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Weight: 757 g
• Dimensions: 221 × 136 × 35 mm
• Date of publishing: October 1997

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