Men Astutely Trained: A History of the Jesuits in the American Century

by Peter McDonough

Book Overview

A perceptive and provocative analysis of the transformation that swept through American Catholicism in the decades leading up to Vatican II. Captures the drama of the Jesuits' confrontation with American modernity. Jokers, wisemen, failures, the brilliant and the merely bemused march through the book's pages. The Jesuits have been the carriers of a culture borne along by a fruitful and often frustrating tension between their dual commitment to ancient...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029205271
• ISBN13: 9780029205273
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.5"