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The Fire of Tongues: Antonio Vieira and the Missionary Church in Brazil and Portugal by Thomas Cohen, ISBN 0804729077 Summary
"This important contribution to the biographical literature on Antãonio Vieira demonstrates how his experiences in Brazil, and his detention by the Inquisition in Portugal, convinced him that the missionary enterprise must be separated from Portugal's imperial project. Vieira concluded that the Jesuits' special talents (especially their talent for languages) equipped them to build the Christian church in the New World"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
The Fire of Tongues: Antonio Vieira and the Missionary Church in Brazil and Portugal Full Description
The Fire of Tongues is a study of the religious and social thought of the Jesuit Antonio Vieira (1608-97), one of the great preachers, writers, and missionaries of the seventeenth century. A key actor in European and Ibero-American politics of the period, Vieira argued throughout his seventy-year career that the Portuguese nation was destined to lead the Catholic church in its mission to convert the Jews of Europe and the non-Christian peoples of the New World. The tension between the missionary enterprise and the Portuguese imperial project is the principal theme of The Fire of Tongues. The author focuses on three periods in Vieira's career. The first is his mission to the Amazon (1653-61), which took place during an era marked by conflict between the Jesuit missionaries and their fellow Europeans. The latter resented the Jesuits' responsibility for administering the allocation of Indian workers, and Vieira exacerbated the conflict by bringing under Jesuit control the notorious slaving expeditions the Portuguese were conducting in the backlands. After being forcibly returned to Portugal by his opponents, Vieira spent five years in the custody of the Inquisition (1663-67). The author argues that the Inquisition's persecution of Vieira was a result of his criticism of the church hierarchy in the Luso-Brazilian world, set forth in his preaching and prophetic writings. For Vieira, the New World was a locus of prophecies that the Portuguese had been providentially chosen to reveal. Every group that participated in the imperial project -- the crown and settlers, the missionaries and Indians, and the Inquisitors -- had a role to play in the schema of revelation that Vieira drew fromScripture and then read into Portuguese history and into the history of the missionary church.
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