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Shi, Yunli. "Chinese astronomy in the time of the Jesuits: Studies following Science and Civilisation in China." Cultures of Science 3, no. 2 (June 2020): 77–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2096608320915072.

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Viewing traditional Chinese science as one of the tributaries to be merged into the grand ocean of modern/universal science, Joseph Needham placed great importance on the period of the Jesuits in the ‘Sciences of the Heavens’ section in volume 3 of Science and Civilisation in China. He considered that period a turning point when Chinese astronomy – a representative field of Chinese science – changed from its traditional form into universal/modern astronomy. Among the work of other historians of Chinese science, Joseph Needham’s work helped foster a growing interest in the astronomical work of the Jesuits in China. After more than 50 years, as many of the details in Needham’s original work have been gradually clarified and enhanced, a new picture of the Jesuits’ contribution to Chinese astronomy has taken shape. In some important respects, that picture is quite contrary to Needham’s overall claim about the role and result of Jesuit works in the development of astronomy in China, which has led to new questions that invite further investigation.
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Prieto, Andrés I. "The Perils of Accommodation: Jesuit Missionary Strategies in the Early Modern World." Journal of Jesuit Studies 4, no. 3 (June 1, 2017): 395–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22141332-00403002.

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The notion of accommodation, or the adaptation of one’s message to one’s audience, has been regarded as a central feature of the Jesuit way of proceeding at least since the seventeenth century. In recent years, scholars have come to understand accommodation as a rhetorical principle, which—while rooted in the rules of classical oratory—permeated all the works and ministries performed by the Jesuits of the Old Society. By comparing the theoretical notions about accommodation and the advantages and risks of adapting both the Christian message to native cultures and vice versa, this paper shows how and under what conditions the Jesuit missionaries were able to translate this rhetorical principle into a proselytizing praxis. By focusing on the examples of José de Acosta in Peru, Matteo Ricci in China, and of those Jesuits working in the missions in Paraguay and Chile, this essay will show how the needs in the missionary field superseded and overruled the theoretical requirements set beforehand. They revealed the ways in which the political and cultural context in which the missionaries operated determined the negotiations needed in order to achieve a common ground with their would-be converts if their mission was going to happen at all.
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Verhoeven, Timothy. "“A Perfect Jesuit in Petticoats”: The Curious Figure of the Female Jesuit." Journal of Jesuit Studies 2, no. 4 (September 30, 2015): 624–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22141332-00204005.

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This article investigates one of the most curious figures in the anti-Jesuit arsenal, the female Jesuit, or Jesuitess. In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, opponents of the Jesuits in a range of nations warned that the bedrock institutions of society were vulnerable to infiltration by this figure who in their mind combined Jesuit cunning with feminine charm. This made the female Jesuit, in words that were repeated in exposés of the Society, even more dangerous than the male Jesuit. Perhaps paradoxically, the female Jesuit tells us a great deal about the imagined nature of Jesuit masculinity. The existence of such a creature could seem plausible because Jesuitism itself appeared to be shrouded in an ambiguous masculinity. As an imagined space where gender confusion rather than clarity was thought to reign, the Society of Jesus naturally spawned a figure like the female Jesuit.
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i Alemany, Anna Busquets. "Other Voices for the Conflict: Three Spanish texts about the Manchus and Their conquest of China." MING QING YANJIU 17, no. 01 (February 14, 2012): 35–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24684791-01701003.

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The entry of the Manchus in the Chinese Empire introduced a new subject matter into the works about China that had been circulating in Europe until that time. In the second half of the XVII century, the Jesuits inundated the European scene with different publications centred on this historical event. In Spain, there were also texts that covered the changes in the Chinese dynasty right from the start. Specifically, information about the fall of the Ming dynasty basically came from three sources: the text by Bishop Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Historia de la conquista de China por el Tártaro (1670, posthumous edition); the Hechos de la Orden de Predicadores en el Imperio de China (1667), by the Dominican Victorio Riccio, and the news collected by another Dominican, Fernández de Navarrete, in his Tratados históricos, políticos, éticos y religiosos de la monarquía de China (1676). The objective of this essay is to present these three authors and their works, analysing the information that they offer about the entry of the Manchus in China and the relation between them.
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Mandziuk, Józef. "O. Kasper Drużbicki SJ (1590-1662) i jego nauka o doskonałości chrześcijańskiej." Saeculum Christianum 24 (September 10, 2018): 128–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.21697/sc.2017.24.14.

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At their beginnings, Jesuits had a huge impact on the Catholic Church in Poland. They introduced the Council of Trent reform and stopped the spread of Protestanism. Amongst them, there were many mystics, great theologians, missionaries, saints and priests. One of them was Father Kasper Druzbicki, theologian, ascetic writer, preacher and administrator.One of his many theological works is a treaty about the shortest way to Christian perfection, which is God’s will fulfillment. The book is not just designed for those in consecrated life, but also in secular life who strive toward holiness.
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Miola, Robert S. "Julius Caesar and the Tyrannicide Debate." Renaissance Quarterly 38, no. 2 (1985): 271–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2861665.

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The rich and important debate over tyrannicide, in which Julius Caesar figures centrally, engaged the best political minds of antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance and raged with particular intensity during Shakespeare's time. The tremendous upheaval of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation ignited fiery polemics on the rights of subjects and on the nature and foundations of civil order. At various times Protestants and Catholics arose to challenge the authority of the earthly crown and to claim the right of deposition and tyrannicide. Monarchomachs like Christopher Goodman, John Ponet, George Buchanan, François Hoffman, Théodore de Bèze, the author of Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos, the Ligue, and the Jesuits Robert Persons, Francisco Suarez, and Juan de Mariana drew upon the classics (especially Aristotle), the Bible, and other works (especially those of Aquinas, Salutati, and Bartolus) to reexamine fundamental assumptions about political order.
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Martin, James. "That’s what missionary work is all about, loving people”: A Conversation with James Martin, S.J." Journal of Jesuit Studies 4, no. 2 (March 10, 2017): 291–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22141332-00402001.

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In his nearly thirty-year preparation for the film Silence, Martin Scorsese called on a number of consultants, including James Martin, S.J., who worked with Mr. Scorsese and the American actors for two years. Here, Father Martin, editor-at-large of America and author of many books including Jesus: A Pilgrimage and the Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything (New York, ny : HarperOne, 2014) discusses his participation in what many are calling Scorsese’s masterpiece with Robert A. Maryks, associate professor of history at Boston College, where he teaches a course on representations of Jesuits in film.
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FREITAS, LUDMILA GOMIDES. "Se queres entrar para a vida, guarda os mandamentos (Mt, 19, 17): livre-arbítrio e salvação no pensamento jesuítico. Notas sobre um sermão de Pe. Antônio Vieira * If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments (Mt 19, 17)..." História e Cultura 3, no. 2 (September 22, 2014): 168. http://dx.doi.org/10.18223/hiscult.v3i2.1008.

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<p><strong>Resumo: </strong>A concepção soteriológica jesuítica entende que, não obstante o papel imprescindível da graça divina, o valor moral do livre-arbítrio e, portanto, das ações humanas, eram também determinantes para a salvação das almas. Para Pe. Antônio Vieira, no contexto colonial luso-americano, as boas obras passavam pela condução do indígena ao grêmio da cristandade. Neste sentido, sua oratória sacra buscava persuadir os colonos sobre sua responsabilidade nesta missão providencial. Iremos demonstrar este argumento examinando, primeiramente, as implicações teológicas do conceito jesuítico de salvação para, num segundo momento, analisarmos o “Sermão da Primeira Oitava da Páscoa”, pregado em Belém do Pará, no ano de 1656. <strong></strong></p><p><strong>Palavras-chave: </strong>Pe.<strong> </strong>Antônio Vieira – Salvação – Livre-arbítrio – Obras.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstract: </strong>The interpretation, by the Jesuits, of the soteriological conception understands that, despite the indispensable role of the divine grace, the moral value of free will and therefore of human actions, were also determinants in the salvation of souls. To Antonio Vieira, within the Luso-American colonial context, the good works should be related to the conduction of the indigenous to the Christianity fraternity. In this sense, his sacred oratory sought to persuade the settlers about their responsibility in this providential mission. We will demonstrate this argument by examining, initally, the theological implications of the Jesuitical concept of salvation and then, secondly, we will analyze the “Sermon of the Octave of Easter”, preached at Belém do Pará, in 1656.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Pe. Antônio Vieira – Salvation – Free will – Good works.</p>
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Villiers, John. "Las Yslas de Esperar en Dios: The Jesuit Mission in Moro 1546–1571." Modern Asian Studies 22, no. 3 (July 1988): 593–606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00009707.

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The numerous and voluminous reports and letters which the Jesuits wrote on the Moro mission, as on all their missions in Asia, are perhaps of less interest to us now for what they reveal of the methods adopted by the Society of Jesus in this remote corner of their mission field or the details they contain about the successes and failures of individual missionaries, than for the wealth of information they provide on the islands where the Jesuits lived and the indigenous societies with which they came into contact through their work of evangelization. In other words, it is not theprimary purpose of this essay to analyse the Jesuit documents with a view to reconstructing the history of the Moro mission in narrative form but rather to glean from them some of the informationthey contain about the social and political conditions in Moro during the forty years or so in the sixteenth century when both the Jesuit missionaries and the Portuguese were active in the regio Because the Jesuits were often in close touch with local rulers and notables, whether or not they succeeded in converting them to Christianity, and because they lived among their subjects for long periods, depending upon them for the necessities of life and sharing their hardships, their letters and reports often show a deeper understanding of the social, economic and political conditions of the indigenous societies and, one suspects, give a more accurate and measured account of events and personalities than do the official chroniclers and historians of the time, most of whom never ventured further east than Malacca and who in any case were chiefly concerned to glorify the deeds of the Portuguese and justify their actions to the world.
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Agolia, Grace Mariette. "Words into Silence." Philosophy and Theology 31, no. 1 (2019): 223–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/philtheol202056120.

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This essay explores Karl Rahner’s use of silence throughout his writings in relation to central themes of his theology. First, in his reflections about encountering the silent mystery of God in prayer, Rahner discovers that this painful silence may indeed be sacramental of God’s abiding nearness, inviting us to greater faith, hope, and love. Second, Rahner engages the transcendental character of this relationship between grace and freedom through the silence that permeates the existential divine-human dialogue. Third, Rahner’s meditations on Jesus, the silent Word, reveal how Jesus’s surrender in freedom to God’s silence enables our own response to God and participation in Jesus’s salvific “death-into-resurrection.” Fourth, Rahner elucidates the role of silence in ordinary mysticism; patient forbearance, bold proclamation, and love of neighbor are all opportunities for experiencing the grace of the Holy Spirit in everyday life. Finally, these themes converge in Rahner’s thoughts about the importance of silence in the spirituality of the theologian.
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Bergström, Hyldahl Johan. "The Space Cadet and the Golden Moon : Thoughts About my Work." Thesis, Kungl. Konsthögskolan, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kkh:diva-32.

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A space cadet wakes up by the rattle of his spaceship leaving the atmosphere of the earth. He is faced with the glowing sphere of his destination, the Moon, ahead of him. As he approaches the point where he is supposed to launch the rocket for course trajectory, he ponders his life, his village, and his education. But he needs to maintain his focus - if he launches the rocket too late, he will have passed the gravity field of the moon, and will be lost in space forever.
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The lonely road: Seven words about suffering. Montréal: Christian Direction Inc., 2004.

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Ed, Decker, ed. The truth about "the God makers". Salt Lake City, Utah: Publishers Press, 1986.

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Griffith, Michael T. A ready reply: Answering challenging questions about the gospel. Bountiful, Utah: Horizon Publishers, c1994., 1994.

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The greatest words ever spoken: Everything Jesus said about you, your life, and everything else. Colorado Springs, Colo: Waterbrook Press, 2008.

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Perrin, Nicholas. Lost in transmission: What we can and cannot know about the words of Jesus. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2007.

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Tenison, Thomas. A true account of a conference held about religion at London, Septemb. 29, 1687: Between A. Pulton, Jesuit, and Tho. Tenison, D.D. : as also of that which led to it, and followed after it. London: Printed for Ric. Chiswell ..., 1985.

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An imperfect book: What the Book of Mormon tells us about itself. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2013.

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J, Whittaker David, ed. Tinkling cymbals and sounding brass: The art of telling tales about Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Co., 1991.

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jobs, Steve. Greatest Words Ever Spoken: Everything Jesus Said about You, Your Life, and Everything Else. Crown Publishing Group, The, 2010.

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Lost In Transmission?: What We Can Know About the Words of Jesus. Thomas Nelson, 2008.

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Tiburcio, Alberto. "A Cycle of Polemics and Translation Projects." In Muslim-Christian Polemics in Safavid Iran, 38–65. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474440462.003.0003.

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This chapter presents the history of a cycle of theological polemics of which Jadid al-Islam’s work was the last link. This cycle starts in Mughal India with the work of the Jesuit missionary Jerome Xavier, followed by responses in Iran and counter-responses in Rome, under the auspices of the missionary congregation of Propaganda Fide. The chapter also presents the history of biblical translation projects in Arabic and Persian, which were directly linked to these polemics, including Jadid al-Islam’s own biblical Persian translation and commentary. A general overview about other polemical works in Iran into the nineteenth century is also provided.
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"Mark 14:25 Among Jesus' Words about the Kingdom of God." In Sayings of Jesus: Canonical and Non-Canonical, 123–35. BRILL, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004267350_010.

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Sobecki, Sebastian. "Lydgate’s Kneeling Retraction." In Last Words, 127–58. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198790778.003.0004.

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In this chapter I show that John Lydgate’s Testament is not a rejection of his secular career but a literary palinode that attempts to impress a sense of coherence onto a diverse body of work. As the language of conversion, the repetitive liturgical code at the end of the poem is vindicated by the earlier performance of poetic bravado. Lydgate’s textual piety, which I show to be indebted to the devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus, is paradoxically sustained by the displacement of prior secular forms. In a central gesture, the kneeling monk-poet presents his life’s work to God, who acts as his patron. Finally, I demonstrate that manuscript illuminations depicting a kneeling Lydgate confirm the reception of such a pose as pious yet secular. The Testament, then, is not about Lydgate’s ‘self-erasure’ but about reconciling his porous self with the spiritual demands of preparing for his own death.
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Malcolm, Noel. "The First Albanian Autobiography." In Rebels, Believers, Survivors, 255–73. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857297.003.0010.

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This essay presents a hitherto unknown work: the first autobiography ever written by an Albanian. It was composed in 1881–2 by a young man (born in 1861) called Lazër Tusha; he wrote it in Italian, and the manuscript has been preserved in an ecclesiastical archive in Italy. Tusha was the son of a prosperous tailor in the city of Shkodër, which was the administrative centre of the Catholic Church in Albania. He describes his childhood and early education, which gave him both a love of Italian culture and a strong desire to serve the Church; at his insistence, his father sent him to the Catholic seminary there, run by the Jesuits. He describes his disappointment on being obliged, after six years, to leave the seminary and resume lay life, and his failed attempts to become either a Jesuit or a Franciscan. Some aspects of these matters remain mysterious in his account. But much of this unfinished draft book is devoted to things other than purely personal narrative: Tusha writes in loving detail about customs, superstitions, clothes, the city of Shkodër, its market and the tailoring business. This is a very rich account of the life and world of an ordinary late-nineteenth-century Albanian—albeit an unusually thoughtful one, with some literary ambition.
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Pizzamiglio, Gilberto. "Un’ultima polemica ‘giornalistica’ per l’ottantaquattrenne Saverio Bettinelli." In «Un viaggio realmente avvenuto». Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-344-1/007.

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Saverio Bettinelli’s last works consist of some volumes of pseudo-letters and verses ‘in the feminine’ which certainly contrast with his production prior to the Jesuit suppression. About these works lively controversy was created by those who considered them to be frivolous and morally dangerous. These are the accusations made against him in 1800, with a series of journalistic articles wrote by an unknown author now identified with the lawyer Luigi Bramieri, an energetic supporter of completely opposite classicist positions. These articles were followed by the reply of a still lively Bettinelli.
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Kewes, Paulina. "‘The Idol of State Innovators and Republicans’." In Stuart Succession Literature, 149–85. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198778172.003.0009.

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This chapter explores the seventeenth-century afterlife of the most daring political tract of the Elizabethan era, A Conference About the Next Succession to the Crowne of Ingland (1594/5) by the Jesuit Robert Persons. The chapter begins by explaining what is distinctive about A Conference, notably its direct attack on the hereditary principle and on the pre-eminence of the monarchy itself, and gives an overview of its transmission, reception, and appropriation. It goes on to trace the text’s signal and varied influence on Protestant writers from Henry Walker and Henry Parker during the Puritan Revolution and John Somers and Algernon Sidney during the Exclusion Crisis, to the defenders of the ‘Glorious’ Revolution. It thus invites a rethinking of the republican and Whig traditions in English political thought by revealing their dependence on the work of an Elizabethan Jesuit.
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Lane, Belden C. "Wind." In The Great Conversation, 68–81. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190842673.003.0005.

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Wind and breath are ancient symbols of “Spirit” in all faith traditions. In sacred stories everywhere, the divine takes joy in the raucous majesty of wind. God answers Job out of the whirlwind. “The fierce breath of the divine” (the kamikaze in the Japanese Shinto tradition) brings justice in medieval tales. Aeolus, the Greek storm god, gives Odysseus a bag full of captured winds that prove impossible to contain. Jesus’s disciples ask themselves, “What sort of man is this, that even the winds and the waves obey him?” A wandering nineteenth-century Russian monk popularized the “Jesus Prayer” in his recovery of the Philokalia, a classic treatise on prayer. The conscious, repetitive movement of breath was central to his practice. The author reflects on this work as he spends a night in a windstorm on a mountain in the Ozarks, asking about the parallels between the wind without and the breath within.
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Fisher, David. "Argon and the Rest." In Much Ado about (Practically) Nothing. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195393965.003.0008.

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The discovery of Argon is a great example of how little bitty precise measurements of stuff everyone knows sometimes lead to tremendous leaps of basic knowledge, because we don’t always know what we think we know. The story has a long and meandering lead-in, beginning with Aristotle’s idea that “air” was one of the four earthly primeval elements, an idea which lasted some two thousand years—until the eighteenth century, when an Englishman named Joseph Priestley began to fool around in his homemade laboratory next door to a brewery. Priestley by name, he was also priestly by nature. Educated as a dissenting minister, neither Church of England nor Roman Catholic, he taught and preached in a vigorously antiestablishment manner. Though he supported the American Revolution, he made no enemies in England for that, for there was as large a proportion of Englishmen as Americans who believed that the colonists were in the right. But when, a few years later, he sounded loud public hurrahs for the French Revolution, applauded the beheading of King Louis, and called for the same action against King George, he went a shout too far. Members of parliament called for action against the seditious minister, a mob broke into his home and ravaged it, and all in all he decided it might be time to sail away. He was welcomed in America, where he was honored more for his theology than his scientific work (an opinion which he shared), until his thoughts evolved to the realization that the Christ story was simply an old superstition dressed up in Hebraic dress: God—Zeus, Wotan, Jupiter, Jehovah, take your pick—impregnates a human woman and the resulting child is less godly than the godfather but more so than the human mother. Jesus was only the most recent incarnation of the tale; Pythagoras, Alexander the Great, and a whole host of others share the same superstitious glory. But trying to convince his new compatriots was a losing game; his popularity waned, and the model community he planned was never populated. Never mind. For us his importance lies in his chemical researches, which had been completed twenty years previously in Leeds.
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Marenbon, John. "Leibniz and China." In Pagans and Philosophers. Princeton University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691142555.003.0016.

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This epilogue discusses Leibniz's particular interest in China. Like his predecessors, Leibniz's preferred virtuous pagans were also ancient philosophers, but he was partial to those of China. Leibniz had showed an interest in China from the mid-1670s and, from 1689, roughly in the middle of his career, he began to conduct a correspondence with a number of the Jesuit missionaries to China, seeking information about Chinese writings, thought and language, as well as current news about political and religious developments. His intense interest in China and his voracious reading of all he could find out about it grew from these correspondences, and his fullest thoughts about Chinese religion are expressed in one of his last works, a letter On the Natural Theology of the Chinese, written in 1716 — the year of his death.
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O'Connor, Adrian. "Introduction." In In Pursuit of Politics. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526120564.003.0001.

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The introduction situates the problem of educational reform within the overlapping contexts of Enlightenment philosophy and revolutionary politics. Discussing the influence of sensationist philosophy and new expectations regarding the political public, it describes education’s place at the heart of debates over the nature, character, and purpose of French politics, culture, and society. It describes the range of sources upon which this study draws, the structure of the work, and the work’s central foci. These are: education’s place at the center of a crisis in Ancien Régime politics, one that was sparked by the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1762 but came to envelope debates about the French nation and nationalism, the state, and the social order; the emergence and nature of “public instruction” as an element in the revolutionary pursuit of a representative and participatory political order; and the reach of the ensuing debates over education, citizenship, and politics beyond the officials assemblies and publications of revolutionary politics, a breadth that suggests a broad engagement with the prospects and possibilities for contributory citizenship after 1789.
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Ribichini, Luca. "Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, the shape of a listening. A whole other generative hypothesis." In LC2015 - Le Corbusier, 50 years later. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/lc2015.2015.719.

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Abstract: The article will examin one of Le Corbusier's more emblematic works: the Ronchamp Chapel. The aim is to discover some of the intentionalities hidden within the design of this work by the swiss architect. It will start with the following considerations of Le Corbusier about the Ronchamp chapel:“it began with the acoustics of the landscape taking the four horizons as a reference...to respond to these horizons, to accomodate them, shapes were created…” And: “ Shapes make noise and silence; some speak and others listen...”And again: “ Ear can see proportions. It's possibile to hear the music of visual proportion” (Le Corbusier). The article sustains that the church is nothing but a giant acoustic machine dedicated to Virgin Mary which main purpose is the listening of the prayers. Infact in the Christian religion Mary is the very vehicle between God and man , she has a human but also divine nature since she is the mother of Jesus. To get in contact with the divine it is necessary to pray Mary, she can listen to man's prayers but she can also pass down God's word to man. In support of this hypothesis there stands an analogy between the chapel's map and the image section of a human ear, highlighting the coincidence between the altar position and that of cochlea, which shape is so dear to le Corbusier that he makes use of it very often in his work. Keywords: Ronchamp; acoustic landscape; human ear, architecture as chrystallized music. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.719
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