The Jesuits at Boston College in the Late Nineteenth Century
The Jesuits of Boston College in the late nineteenth century were part of a church trying to adjust to a radically changing world. They were members of an international religious order earlier restored and still struggling to fit itself back into that changed world. As members of the restored Societ...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Catholic Historical Society
2007
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American catholic studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 118, Issue: 2, Pages: 43-66 |
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| Summary: | The Jesuits of Boston College in the late nineteenth century were part of a church trying to adjust to a radically changing world. They were members of an international religious order earlier restored and still struggling to fit itself back into that changed world. As members of the restored Society of Jesus, these Jesuits exercised their intellectual life and conducted their school within the context of an Ultramontane worldview that permeated the restored Society of Jesus. Suppressed in 1773 and restored in 1804 in the United States, and 1814 worldwide, the Society of Jesus reentered a radically altered post-revolution world clinging to a throne/altar alliance, eschewing Liberalism, limiting intellectual pursuit to neo-Thomism, rejecting historical critical scholarship, and embracing a baroque piety. The Jesuits of Boston College were also part of a local ecclesial community that emerged within a hostile social setting, and they were pastors to an ever-increasing Irish immigrant population. The college and church they built within this setting often was driven by the need to define and defend. The self-identity and apostolic intent of the Jesuits of Boston College in the late nineteenth century reflected an Ultramontane underpinning giving rise to questions about the intellectual competence of the Jesuits, their level of engagement with American culture, the relevance of the Ratio Studiorum, the quality of the education offered at Boston College, and the college's standing in the larger academic community. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8534 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American catholic studies
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