Jesuit Polymath of Madrid: The Literary Enterprise of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595-1658)

i-x, 232 pp. With 10 illustrations.
ISBN: 978-90-04-29351-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 523 g

Reihe: Jesuit Studies

In Jesuit Polymath of Madrid D. Scott Hendrickson offers the first English-language account of the life and work of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595-1658), a leading intellectual in Spain during the turbulent decades of the mid-seventeenth century. Most remembered as a prominent ascetic in the neo-Platonic tradition, Nieremberg emerges here as a writer deeply indebted to the legacy of Ignatius Loyola and his Spiritual Exercises.

Hendrickson convincingly shows how Nieremberg drew from his formation in the Jesuit order at the time of its first centenary to engage the cultural and intellectual currents of the Spanish Golden Age. As an author of some seventy-five works, which represent several genres and were translated throughout Europe and abroad, Nieremberg’s literary enterprise demands attention.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hendrickson, D. Scott

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Theologenbiographien, Religiöse Führer
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche Orden und Vereinigungen, Ordensgeschichte, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Juan Eusebio Nieremberg
Introduction
The Jesuit
Faithful Son of Saint Ignatius
Christian Discernment
The Ignatian Exercises: Seeking and Finding the Divine Will
Discernment in Early Modern Spain
Nieremberg and the Exercises
Jesuit Ministry of the Word
Erudite Eclecticism
Conclusion
Chapter 2. Catechetical Innovations
Introduction
Catechetical Context: Crying Tears of Blood
Nieremberg and Trent
The Voice of Doctrine
The Catechetical Examples: Entertaining Digressions
Narrative Appeal: The Open Roads of Spain
Contemplating the Example: To Bring to Memory
Assimilating the Example: The Story of One’s Life
The Wider Application of the Exemplo
Conclusion
Chapter 3. Contemplating the Book of Nature
Introduction
Nieremberg’s Natural Philosophy
The Miscellanies: Part Knowledge, Part Wonder
Knowledge of the Natural World: Ad perfectam cognitionem
Reading the Book of Nature: Harmony and Deformity
Contemplating the Book of Nature: The Consideration
Applying the Lessons of Nature: Deus me fecit
Conclusion
Chapter 4. The Spiritual Exercise of Reading
Introduction
The Eusebio
Proper Knowledge
Contemptus mundi
Didactic Iconography: Ser and Parecer
A Spiritual Itinerary
Meditative Reading
Conclusion
Chapter 5. Public Maladies and Prudent Reform
Introduction
Words of Counsel
The Pain of National Decline
The Cause
The Remedy
Prudent Reform
Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Bibliography of Works by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg
Appendix 2. Cited Decrees from the Council of Trent
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

D. Scott Hendrickson, S.J., D.Phil. (2013), Oxford University, is Assistant Professor of Spanish Studies and Graduate Program Director at Loyola University Chicago. He has published articles on catechetical texts used in seventeenth-century Spain and the Jesuit reductions of Paraguay.