Spanish Jesuits and The Greeks': Reception and Perception of the Eastern Church by Luis De Molina, Francisco Suárez, and Gabriel Vásquez
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Jesuit missionaries in the East enjoyed a rich communicatio in sacris with Orthodox Christians. This resulted in an intellectual exchange between East and West, with Greek theologians, bishops, and even patriarchs engaging the thought of Bellarm...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2018]
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 69, Issue: 1, Pages: 133-169 |
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Molina, Luis de 1535-1600
/ Suárez, Francisco 1548-1617
/ Vázquez, Gabriel 1551-1604
/ Church fathers
/ Orthodox theology
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KDB Roman Catholic Church KDF Orthodox Church |
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| Summary: | In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Jesuit missionaries in the East enjoyed a rich communicatio in sacris with Orthodox Christians. This resulted in an intellectual exchange between East and West, with Greek theologians, bishops, and even patriarchs engaging the thought of Bellarmine, Molina, Suárez, Vásquez, Gregory of Valencia, and other Jesuit scholastics. The present article explores the degree to which three of these Latin scholasticsLuis de Molina, Francisco Suárez, and Gabriel Vásquez(1) received Greek authors, both patristic and more recent', and (2) perceived Greek theological positions as well as the status of the Eastern Church. It will be shown that, despite Suárez's and Vásquez's delineation of the Greeks as schismatics and occasionally as heretics, all three Spaniards maintained ecumenically promising opinions of the Greek Church - some of which would foreshadow official positions adopted at the Second Vatican Council - and a certain degree of sacramental porosity between East and West. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flx158 |