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Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P. : history, philosophy, and theology in the age of European expansion /

Bartolome de las Casas, OP: History, Philosophy, and Theology in the Age of European Expansion marks a critical point in Lascasian scholarship. The result of the collaborative work of seventeen prominent scholars, contributions span the fields of history, Latin American studies, literary criticism,...

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Other Authors: Orique, David Thomas, O.P., 1959- (Editor), Roldán-Figueroa, Rady (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Series:Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v.189.
Subjects:
Casas, Bartolomé de las, > 1484-1566 > Philosophy.
Casas, Bartolomé de las, > 1484-1566 > Political and social views.
Indians, Treatment of > Latin America.
Humanism > Latin America.
Missionaries > America > Biography.
Missionaries > Spain > Biography.
Attitudes envers les Peuples autochtones > Amérique latine.
Humanisme > Amérique latine.
Missionnaires > Amérique > Biographies.
Missionnaires > Espagne > Biographies.
Casas, Bartolomé de las, > 1484-1566
Humanism
Indians, Treatment of
Missionaries
Philosophy
Political and social views
America
Latin America
Spain
Casas, Bartolomé de las > 1484-1566
Indianer
Kolonialismus
Mission
Lateinamerika
Biographies
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Three waves of Lascasian scholarship / David Thomas Orique, Rady Roldán-Figueroa
  • The not-so-brief story of the Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias / Rolena Adorno
  • "There was a time when we were friends" : Las Casas and Cortés as monstrous doubles of the conquest era / Matthew Restall
  • One hell-of-a text : remedial components of Bartolomé de las Casas's Confesionario / David Thomas Orique
  • Bartolomé de las Casas, his theory of the power of bishops, and the early transatlantic episcopacy / Rady Roldán-Figueroa
  • Biopolitics and the farming (of) life in Bartolomé de las Casas / Carlos A. Jáuregui, David Solodkow
  • Controversial cases on humanitarian doctrines : Bartolomé de las Casas's intellectual legacy among New England Puritans / Alicia Mayer
  • Globalization ethics in the sixteenth century? : why we should re-read Francisco de Vitoria / Claus Dierksmeier
  • Las Casas and the concept of just war / Daniel R. Brunstetter
  • Just war in las Casas's Tratado de las doce dudas / Víctor Zorrilla
  • The colonial face-to-face and the human condition : writing and subjectivity in Bartolomé de las Casas / Luis Fernando Restrepo
  • Religion within the limits of natural reason : the case of human sacrifice / David Lantigua
  • Reason, providence, and testimony in the conversion of Bartolomé de las Casas : a theological reading / Ramón Darío Valdivia Giménez
  • Bartolomé de las Casas in the Canary Islands / Eyda M. Merediz
  • The narrower the divide, the deeper the trench : Bartolomé de las Casas and Toribio de Motolinía / Laura Dierksmeier
  • Influences of the Lascasian discourse in Paraguay (sixteenth century) : the itinerary of Martín González / Guillaume Candela
  • Las Casas and African slavery in the Caribbean : a third conversion / Armando Lampe.