Robert Aleksander Maryks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the City University of New York.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Early Jesuit Ministries; Chapter 2 “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?”; Chapter 3 “Christian Virtue and Excellence in Ciceronian Eloquence”; Chapter 4 The Genealogy of Jesuit Probabilism; Chapter 5 Probabilism as the Spiritual Sodom; Chapter 101 Conclusion;

’To conclude with, Maryks’s is a must-read book for intellectual historians, historians of moral theology, and researchers in the field of Jesuit studies.’ Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses ’This book is richly documented and meticulous. ... Maryks guides us through complex Latin treatises that few readers today would be able to disentangle.’ Sixteenth Century Journal

Robert Aleksander Maryks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the City University of New York.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Early Jesuit Ministries; Chapter 2 “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?”; Chapter 3 “Christian Virtue and Excellence in Ciceronian Eloquence”; Chapter 4 The Genealogy of Jesuit Probabilism; Chapter 5 Probabilism as the Spiritual Sodom; Chapter 101 Conclusion;

’To conclude with, Maryks’s is a must-read book for intellectual historians, historians of moral theology, and researchers in the field of Jesuit studies.’ Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses ’This book is richly documented and meticulous. ... Maryks guides us through complex Latin treatises that few readers today would be able to disentangle.’ Sixteenth Century Journal

Robert Aleksander Maryks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the City University of New York.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Early Jesuit Ministries; Chapter 2 “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?”; Chapter 3 “Christian Virtue and Excellence in Ciceronian Eloquence”; Chapter 4 The Genealogy of Jesuit Probabilism; Chapter 5 Probabilism as the Spiritual Sodom; Chapter 101 Conclusion;

’To conclude with, Maryks’s is a must-read book for intellectual historians, historians of moral theology, and researchers in the field of Jesuit studies.’ Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses ’This book is richly documented and meticulous. ... Maryks guides us through complex Latin treatises that few readers today would be able to disentangle.’ Sixteenth Century Journal