On 3 May 2010 12:38, DAN DRISCOLL <[email protected]> wrote: [1] I would say that the relationship between implementation of the inquisitiorial policy in the Region and the dating of Xavier's departure and eventual death need not at all negate his influence in the matter.
[2] I suspect that very little of any decision-making that came out of Rome and Lisboa for up to half a century after Xavier's passing would have been without heavy reliance on his judgement. [3] Xavier and Ignatius were like two blood brothers, and the generation of Jesuit decision-makers that followed them would have worked under influence of their stated opinions (plainly indicated and preserved in the correspondence record). =======RESPONSE:========= Hi there ....Dan, Mine is just an inquiry. >From your email address, you appear (and I could be wrong) to be a man with knowledge of law (perhaps a specialist in both criminal and tort law). Are you suggesting, albeit marginally, that Francis Xavier's writings affected, by way of causation, the actions of those who instituted the unholy Inquisition in Goa several years after his death .....and therefore, Francis Xavier bears the responsibility for the unholy Inquisition in Goa? If so, would it be accurate that some one (in the future) would reasonably be able to assign the responsibility of (say) a burning down of a church or a rape of some nuns on that person's reliance on the words of some anti-Jesuits? jc
