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Definitions of jesuitical in various dictionaries:
adj - having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism
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Laic, i.e. just out of priestly order? |
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Nov 26 2005 The Times - Cryptic |
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of or concerning the Jesuits. |
having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism |
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Jesuitism is a casuistic approach to moral questions and problems, so called because it was promoted by some Jesuits of the 17th century rather than being the beliefs of the Society of Jesus as a religious order. The earliest known citation is 1622. * Jesuitism is not a systematically developed Moral Theology school (and the word is not found in any Theological Dictionary), but some Jesuit theologians, in view of promoting personal responsibility and the respect of freedom of conscience, stressed the importance of the 'case by case' approach to personal moral decisions and ultimately developed and accepted a casuistry (the study of cases of consciences) where at the time of decision, individual inclinations were more important than the moral law itself. A British encyclopedia of 1900 claimed that it was "popularly regarded as an attempt to achieve holy ends by unholy means."Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician, religious philosopher and Jansenist sympathiser, vigorously attacked the |