ST. FRANCIS DE SALES AND JESUIT RHETORICAL EDUCATION

The extant letters of Ignatius of Loyola total nearly some seven thousand, most of them from his years as superior general of the Jesuits, 1541–56.¹ The letter, as an instrument of governance, and as a medium for exchange of information, played no small role in the nascent Society of Jesus. The lett...

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Published in	Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies p. 102
Main Author	Thomas Worcester
Format	Book Chapter
Language	English
Published	Fordham University Press 25.03.2016
Subjects	Anthropology Applied anthropology Axiology Behavioral sciences Catholicism Ceremonial objects Ceremonies Christian philosophy Christianity Church groups Clergy Communications Cultural anthropology Cultural customs Ecclesiology Ethics Formal speech Gentleness Historical methodology Historiography History History of religion Morality Normative ethics Oratory Philosophy Practical theology Preachers Protestantism Pulpits Religion Religious organizations Religious wars Rituals Sacred texts Social sciences Society of Jesus Speech Spiritual belief systems Spiritual leaders Theology Virtue
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ISBN	0823264521 9780823264520

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Summary:	The extant letters of Ignatius of Loyola total nearly some seven thousand, most of them from his years as superior general of the Jesuits, 1541–56.¹ The letter, as an instrument of governance, and as a medium for exchange of information, played no small role in the nascent Society of Jesus. The letter was also a literary genre at the center of sixteenth-century humanist practices, practices that informed and were promoted by Jesuit schools. This essay will examine a single letter, but a lengthy one, by one of the best-known alumni of Jesuit colleges in the first century of Jesuit
ISBN:	0823264521 9780823264520