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Description:A record of missionary activity in the East, 1541-1786.Translated from the German (Jesuiten Zur See, 1946, Zurich) by Lord Sudley and Oscar Blobel. Includes a map of missionary travel routes. “ ‘To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.’ When Jesuits went East in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, all travelled hopefully but very many failed to arrive at any earthly destination, and if they did survive the many perils of the ocean and land routes, the end of one journey only became the starting point of some even more impossible adventure. This book tells the story of these hopeful and heroic travellings. With such a theme it could hardly fail to be interesting and exciting but it is more than that. From the Introduction, which gives an excellent short account of the Age of Discovery, to the last chapter which tells the almost incredibly inhuman story of the suppression of the Society of Jesus as it affected the Asiatic missions, the book is a first-class account of the attempt of the Jesuit missionaries to forge a link between East and West in the interest of religion. Unlike the later colonizing activities of Reformation Europe, the expansion of Counter Reformation Europe in the East was always a missionary movement. ‘First pepper, then souls,’ was the motto of the earliest Portuguese in India, and from the arrival of St. Francis Xavier it was the Jesuits who pioneered and organized this tremendous enterprise of winning Asia for Christ...“Father Plattner has wisely left it to his Jesuit travellers for the most part to tell their own tale in their typically objective way, and the result is an impression of the grandeurs et miseres del l’homme which should move to admiration and sympathy even the most hardened anti-Jesuit. For example, there is a description in the third chapter of the book of a sixteenth-century carack caught in a typhoon in the China Seas which it would be hard to equal in the literature of storms... Father Plattner has much to say of the debt due to the old Jesuit geographers and cartographers - for the Jesuit missionary had to map as well as make his journey, and in the process he exploded many myths of the ‘Here be dragons’ school of cosmographers which had been current in the West from the time of Ptolemy.“The English version of this scholarly work is pleasantly translated and deserves a wide public.’ -The Tablet (London)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jesuits Go East. To get started finding Jesuits Go East, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 283

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Publisher: Newman Press

Release: 1952

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Description: A record of missionary activity in the East, 1541-1786.Translated from the German (Jesuiten Zur See, 1946, Zurich) by Lord Sudley and Oscar Blobel. Includes a map of missionary travel routes. “ ‘To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.’ When Jesuits went East in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, all travelled hopefully but very many failed to arrive at any earthly destination, and if they did survive the many perils of the ocean and land routes, the end of one journey only became the starting point of some even more impossible adventure. This book tells the story of these hopeful and heroic travellings. With such a theme it could hardly fail to be interesting and exciting but it is more than that. From the Introduction, which gives an excellent short account of the Age of Discovery, to the last chapter which tells the almost incredibly inhuman story of the suppression of the Society of Jesus as it affected the Asiatic missions, the book is a first-class account of the attempt of the Jesuit missionaries to forge a link between East and West in the interest of religion. Unlike the later colonizing activities of Reformation Europe, the expansion of Counter Reformation Europe in the East was always a missionary movement. ‘First pepper, then souls,’ was the motto of the earliest Portuguese in India, and from the arrival of St. Francis Xavier it was the Jesuits who pioneered and organized this tremendous enterprise of winning Asia for Christ...“Father Plattner has wisely left it to his Jesuit travellers for the most part to tell their own tale in their typically objective way, and the result is an impression of the grandeurs et miseres del l’homme which should move to admiration and sympathy even the most hardened anti-Jesuit. For example, there is a description in the third chapter of the book of a sixteenth-century carack caught in a typhoon in the China Seas which it would be hard to equal in the literature of storms... Father Plattner has much to say of the debt due to the old Jesuit geographers and cartographers - for the Jesuit missionary had to map as well as make his journey, and in the process he exploded many myths of the ‘Here be dragons’ school of cosmographers which had been current in the West from the time of Ptolemy.“The English version of this scholarly work is pleasantly translated and deserves a wide public.’ -The Tablet (London)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jesuits Go East. To get started finding Jesuits Go East, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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