To Heaven or to Hell: Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Confesionario
David Thomas Orique O.P., "To Heaven or to Hell: Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Confesionario "
English | ISBN: 0271080981 | 2018 | 152 pages | PDF | 15 MB
English | ISBN: 0271080981 | 2018 | 152 pages | PDF | 15 MB
This volume is the first complete English translation and annotated study of Bartolomé de Las Casas’s important and provocative 1552 treatise commonly known as the Confesionario or Avisos y reglas. A text that generated controversy, like Las Casas’s more famous Brevísima relación, the Confesionario outlined a strikingly novel and arguably harsh use of confession for those administering the sacrament to conquistadores, encomenderos, slaveholders, settlers, and others who had harmed the indigenous people, thus using magisterial authority and jurisdictional power to promote restitution.
David Orique addresses how, from 1516 to 1547, Las Casas subscribed to and wrote about the theory and practice of the doctrine of restitution. He then presents the specific historical context of the development of the initial manuscript of the
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