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Fr. Luis Martín García was superior general of the Society of Jesus during one of the most fractious periods in western history, from 1892 to his death in 1906. Fortunately for both the church and his order, he was endowed with remarkable gifts of mind and spirit. He was also troubled with personal challenges that he had to face almost entirely on his own. As an aid, he kept a memoir, prodigious in both size and content, to be published posthumously. The memoir appeared in a critical Spanish edition in 1988. In this present book, David Schultenover provides a condensed English version of it along with an interpretation that engages the question, why would a Jesuit superior general leave to posterity such a candid memoir? The subtitle “Showing Up” provides a clue.
Price: $316.00
Pages: 946
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Jesuit Studies
Publication Date:
06 May 2021
ISBN: 9789004433083
Format: Hardcover
“David Schultenover, S.J.’s monumental study of the Jesuit superior general Luis Martín (1846–1906) leaves all students of modern Jesuit, Catholic, and Spanish history in his debt. […] This archival and editorial triumph will inform the work of the next generation of historians of Spanish Catholicism, at a minimum, but should influence scholars of the modern Catholic world more generally.”
John T. McGreevy, University of Notre Dame. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022), pp. 299–302.
“By any measure, this work is monumental. […] It is an invaluable resource for historians of nineteenth-century Spain, modernization and laicism, church-state conflict, religion and religious life, mentalities and emotions.”
Stephen Schloesser, Loyola University Chicago. In: Church History, 2022.
John T. McGreevy, University of Notre Dame. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022), pp. 299–302.
“By any measure, this work is monumental. […] It is an invaluable resource for historians of nineteenth-century Spain, modernization and laicism, church-state conflict, religion and religious life, mentalities and emotions.”
Stephen Schloesser, Loyola University Chicago. In: Church History, 2022.
David G. Schultenover, S.J., PhD (1975), is professor emeritus of historical theology at Marquette University. His publications on Roman Catholic Modernism include George Tyrrell: In Search of Catholicism (1981) and A View from Rome: On the Eve of the Modernist Crisis (1993). He served as editor-in-chief of Theological Studies from 2006 to 2016.