Title: From the river : Jesuit missions and exemplarity in Spanish Colonial Philippines 1581-1768 /
Authors: Holt, Maria Cecilia,; Clooney, Francis X. 1950-; Harvard Divinity School.
Year: 2014
Subjects: Jesus Christ Example.; Jesuits Missions Philippines.; Conversion Catholic Church History.; Imitation Religious aspects; Philippines Church history.
Abstract: "Using an interdisciplinary approach to textual interpretation and drawing from the fields of theology, history, literature, cultural studies, and anthropology, this dissertation explores the idea that Jesuit missionaries in the Philippines performed acts of imitatio Christi that were every bit as complex and creative as those demanded of the new Christian converts to whom they ministered. While it does not engage in an uncritical defense of missionaries, it does attempt restore some of the complexity of the missionaries' own negotiations with the ideals of Roman Catholic conversion exemplarity and imitation."--Page iii.
Contents: Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. Jonah and the Crocodile: Jesuit Missions as Translation Studies --II. Working Wonders: Jesuit Accommodation and the Bracketing of Authority -- III. The Martyrs' Farewell: Jesuits, Self-Love and the Writing of History -- IV. Sermon on the Sleeve and the Heart in Hiding -- V. Defying the Devil's Yo-yo -- VI. Errant Hearts: Melancholy, Consolation and Mission in Colonial Philippines -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.