The Spiritual Doctrine
Author: Louis Lallemant
Translator: Patricia M. Ranum
A new English translation of Louis Lallemant’s lessons for Jesuits in formation.
The Exercise of Christian Life
Author: Gaspar Loarte
Translator and editor: Charles R. Keenan
One of the earliest examples of Jesuit devotional literature (1557). This edition is the first annotated modern translation published in English.
Jesuit Pedagogy, 1540–1616: A Reader
Editors: Cristiano Casalini and Claude Pavur, S.J.
A wide range of materials exploring the development of pedagogy in theory and practice.
Notes on the Jesuits in China
Author: Hieromonk Feodosii Smorzhevskii
Translator and editor: Gregory Afinogenov
Published in English for the first time, recollections of the encounter between Russian Orthodox and Catholic missionaries in Beijing during the 1740s.
The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven
Author: Matteo Ricci
Editor and translator: Thierry Meynard, S.J.
Matteo Ricci recalls his attempts to introduce late-sixteenth-century Chinese literati to fundamental ideas of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Thierry Meynard explores Ricci’s conversations in their religious and cultural contexts.