Saint Cicero and the Jesuits: The Influence of the Liberal Arts on the Adoption of Moral Probabilism

Abstract

Contents: Introduction Early Jesuit ministries 'What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?': Jesuit ethics before the revolution of probabilism 'Christian virtue and excellence in Ciceronian eloquence': the Jesuit literary Renaissance and adoption of probabilism The genealogy of Jesuit probabilism Probabilism as the spiritual Sodom: Jansenist attack against Jesuit ethics Conclusion Bibliography Index.

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