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Author: Stefania Tutino (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.90cm
, Height: 5.10cm
, Length: 15.50cm
Weight: 0.898kg
ISBN: 9780190694098
ISBN 10: 0190694092
Pages: 584
Publication Date: 28 December 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Tutino's newest book is an eminent contribution to intellectual history, and a necessary antidote to the caricatures of probabilism floating around in handbooks of ethics and theology. This is an exciting reading adventure into a world where uncertainty was not feared but dealt with creatively. * Ulrich L. Lehner, The Regensburg Forum *
This work offers the most comprehensive treatment of its topic in any language. Central to Tutino's purpose is to rescue probabilism from the condescension of posterity. For her, it is high time that Pascal's association of probabilism with moral duplicity and decadence was jettisoned and replaced by an awareness of the central role played by probabilism in managing uncertainty in the face of the new challenges to Roman Catholic moral theology posed by a geographically and intellectually expanding world. --Simon Ditchfield, Professor of Early Modern History, University of York Stefania Tutino combines a sharp focus on the concept of probability with an abundance of carefully researched detail to bring a forgotten epoch in the history of epistemology to light. If you are looking for a path-breaking study of the early modern Catholic turn to probability as a criterion of theoretical, theological, and moral certainty, look no further. This is it. It lays the stereotype of 'Jesuitic casuistry' to rest and provides a little sanity for our time. --Constantin Fasolt, Karl J. Weintraub Professor Emeritus of History, University of Chicago
It is sophisticatedly argued and well-research, and offers a valuable resource for considering the application of probabilism to a legion of different challenges brought about by increases in both new information and uncertainty in the early modern world. -- Christopher P. Gillett, Journal of Jesuit Studies In UPRC, Stefania Tutino has made an exceptional contribution to the his-tory of early modern moral theology. Advanced students as well as scholars and library collections can profit from this excellent scholarly resource. -- Julia A. Fleming, Catholic Historical Review Recommended. --B.B. Kensinger, CHOICE Tutino's newest book is an eminent contribution to intellectual history, and a necessary antidote to the caricatures of probabilism floating around in handbooks of ethics and theology. This is an exciting reading adventure into a world where uncertainty was not feared but dealt with creatively. --Ulrich L. Lehner, The Regensburg Forum This work offers the most comprehensive treatment of its topic in any language. Central to Tutino's purpose is to rescue probabilism from the condescension of posterity. For her, it is high time that Pascal's association of probabilism with moral duplicity and decadence was jettisoned and replaced by an awareness of the central role played by probabilism in managing uncertainty in the face of the new challenges to Roman Catholic moral theology posed by a geographically and intellectually expanding world. --Simon Ditchfield, Professor of Early Modern History, University of York Stefania Tutino combines a sharp focus on the concept of probability with an abundance of carefully researched detail to bring a forgotten epoch in the history of epistemology to light. If you are looking for a path-breaking study of the early modern Catholic turn to probability as a criterion of theoretical, theological, and moral certainty, look no further. This is it. It lays the stereotype of 'Jesuitic casuistry' to rest and provides a little sanity for our time. --Constantin Fasolt, Karl J. Weintraub Professor Emeritus of History, University of Chicago
Tutino's newest book is an eminent contribution to intellectual history, and a necessary antidote to the caricatures of probabilism floating around in handbooks of ethics and theology. This is an exciting reading adventure into a world where uncertainty was not feared but dealt with creatively. * Ulrich L. Lehner, The Regensburg Forum * Recommended. * B.B. Kensinger, CHOICE *
Author Information
Stefania Tutino is a historian of post-Reformation Catholicism. She received her Ph.D. from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, and is currently a professor of history at UCLA. She has published on Catholic political thought, and on the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Catholicism.
