Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- PART I CHURCH, STATE, AND SOCIETY IN THE EUROPEAN WORLD, 1660–1780
- PART II CHRISTIAN LIFE IN THE EUROPEAN WORLD, 1660–1780
- PART III MOVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES
- 13 Christianity and the rise of science, 1660–1815
- 14 The Enlightenment critique of Christianity
- 15 The Christian Enlightenment
- 16 Jansenism and the international suppression of the Jesuits
- 17 Evangelical awakenings in the North Atlantic world
- 18 Toleration and movements of Christian reunion, 1660–1789
- PART IV CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NON-EUROPEAN WORLD
- PART V REVOLUTION AND THE CHRISTIAN WORLD
- Chronology
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
16 - Jansenism and the international suppression of the Jesuits
from PART III - MOVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- PART I CHURCH, STATE, AND SOCIETY IN THE EUROPEAN WORLD, 1660–1780
- PART II CHRISTIAN LIFE IN THE EUROPEAN WORLD, 1660–1780
- PART III MOVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES
- 13 Christianity and the rise of science, 1660–1815
- 14 The Enlightenment critique of Christianity
- 15 The Christian Enlightenment
- 16 Jansenism and the international suppression of the Jesuits
- 17 Evangelical awakenings in the North Atlantic world
- 18 Toleration and movements of Christian reunion, 1660–1789
- PART IV CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NON-EUROPEAN WORLD
- PART V REVOLUTION AND THE CHRISTIAN WORLD
- Chronology
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Founded by Ignatius Loyola, the Society of Jesus won papal recognition in 1540, just a few years before the first meeting of the Council of Trent where Jesuit theologians first came to Catholic attention as champions of papal primacy and the most formidable foes of Protestant ‘heresy’. More than two and a half centuries later, in 1814, the papacy re-established the society as an institutional antidote to the unbelief and republican ideology bequeathed by a revolution that had marked the parting of the paths between Catholicism and modernity in political form. Yet the same papacy that restored the society had dissolved it as a source of ‘troubles and dissension’ only forty years before, in 1773. Indeed, little in the history of Christendom between the first session of the Council of Trent and the French Revolution is more surprising than the international expulsion of the Jesuits in the third quarter of the eighteenth century.
While the papacy in the person of Clement XIV hardly acted of its own accord in 1773, the initiative against the Jesuits came from incontestably Catholic quarters. The first state to strike out against the Jesuits was the ultra-Catholic kingdom of Portugal where the ‘most faithful’ Joseph I expelled them from both the metropolitan mainland and the South American and Asian colonies in September 1759. The next scene of action was Bourbon France where the impetus came from the royal law courts or parlements, which manoeuvred the ‘most Christian’ king Louis XV into dissolving the society in November 1764 instead of bodily expelling all the Jesuits as had Portugal in 1759.
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