Citation

Fabre PA. Journal of Jesuit Studies 2022; 9(1): 125-135.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022)

DOI

10.1163/22141332-09010007

PMID

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Abstract

The conclusion of this collection of studies endeavors to recapture five major questions that this special issue of the Journal of Jesuit Studies poses on the subject of martyrdom: Is this gesture a form of imitation of Christ (or imitatio Christi) or is it itself a sacrifice? How does it get rid of the shadow of suicide or voluntary death? How do the singularity of its experience and the community within which and in the name of which it is exercised articulate? Can martyrdom be defined as a renunciation of human love, and in this sense as the ultimate step in a process of conversion? How does martyrdom take its place in the writing of the religious history of the modern era, in particular, as far as the Society of Jesus is concerned, in the historiography of the nineteenth century? These five questions open this collection of essays to a field of research that remains to be pursued. © Pierre-Antoine Fabre, 2022.

Language: en

Keywords

Suicide; Martyrdom; Conversion; Sacrifice; Imitation of Christ; Jesuit historiography