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Chapter 3 explores how casuistry developed in Europe and was adapted in Japan. It explores the particular interpretation of Thomas Aquinas’s moral theology by Jesuits such as Gabriel Vázquez and Francisco Rodrigues. As the Ratio studiorum, the blueprint for Jesuit education was being revised, a debate ensued as to how strictly the Society’s members had to adhere to Aquinas’s teachings. Moral probabilism, reflected in the work of the Dominicans Domingo de Soto and Bartolomé de Medina, had a major impact on these debates. The Society opted for flexibility, which was reflected in Gomez’s casuistry for Japan. The compendium discusses the different types of ‘law’ that govern Christian life. Valignano notes the need for caution in promulgating any prescriptive, namely ‘positive’ laws, in Japan. Making the faith accessible required ‘re-inventing’ Christianity, that is, translating and transmitting it to a different cultural milieu and finding new ways to explain Catholic orthodoxy and orthopraxis. |
