- List of Illustrations*
- Introduction
- 1. Foundations before the Founding
- Ignatius and the First Companions
- The Spiritual Exercises
- 2. Taking Shape for Ministry
- The Basic Framework
- The Campaign for Self-Understanding
- Pastoral Ideals and Practice
- Programs of Ministry
- 3. Ministries of the Word of God
- Preaching
- Sacred Lectures
- Conversation and Publication
- Teaching Christianity
- Missions to the Countryside
- The Exercises in Practice
- 4. Sacraments, Worship, Prayer
- Confession and Casuistry
- Holy Communion and the Eucharist
- Holy Orders
- Music and Worship
- Prayer
- 5. Works of Mercy
- Peacemaking
- Hospitals and Prisons
- Ministry to the Dying
- Ministry to Prostitutes
- Orphans and Daughters of Prostitutes
- Jews and New Christians
- Confraternities and the Marian Congregations
- 6. The Schools
- Toward Messina and Beyond
- The Faith in Education
- Transcending the Modus Parisiensis
- Jesuit Education
- Failures, Frustrations, and Crisis
- Training the Clergy
- The Impact of the Schools
- 7. Religious and Theological Culture
- Scholasticism
- Renaissance Humanism
- Catholic Piety
- Lutheranism and the Empire
- 8. The Jesuits and the Church at Large
- Bishops and Theologians
- The Papacy and the Popes
- Inquisitions and the Banning of Books
- Reform and the Council of Trent
- 9. Prescriptions for the Future
- Constitutions, Rules, and Traditions
- The Vows and Grades of Membership
- The Houses of the Society
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
- * Illustrations
- Posthumous portrait of Ignatius of Loyola, 1556.
- Ministries at Santa Maria della Strada, Rome.
- Priest hearing confession.
- Jesuit school and church at Ingolstadt.
- The Jesuit astronomer Johann Adam von Bell. From Alfred Hamy, Galerie illustrée de la Compagnie de Jésus (Paris, 1893), vol. 7.
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