The Influence of the Liberal Arts on the Adoption of Moral Probabilism
by
Robert Aleksander Maryks
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
In this commanding study, Dr Maryks offers a detailed analysis of early modern Jesuit confessional manuals to explore the order's shifting attitudes to confession and conscience. Drawing on his census of Jesuit penitential literature published between 1554 and 1650, he traces in these works a subtly...