The American Jesuits: A History.(Book review)
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June, 2008
THE AMERICAN JESUITS:
A HISTORY
by Raymond A. Schroth, S.J.
New York University Press,
368 pages, $29.95
Father Raymond Schroth, S.J., has written a strange and strangely unsatisfactory book. Tided The American Jesuits, it is neither comprehensive, nor thematically coherent, nor notable for any originality of insight, and it reads less like a true history than an apologia for the progressive direction taken by the Society of Jesus in the years following the Second Vatican Council.
Schroth's apologia is historical in form, if quirkily so. Its four parts correspond to chronological divisions spanning the five centuries from the arrival of Jesuit missionaries to the present, although the author's treatment of each...
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