Catholic soteriology • History of Catholicism in Japan • Japanese Jesuit mission • Early modern Jesuit missions • Early modern Catholicism A Failing Mission? Salvation in the Jesuit Mission in Japan Under Francisco Cabral Zampol D’Ortia, Linda 2024 http://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/o:432585 application/pdf (1694381 bytes) eng ita The Jesuit textual production from the sixteenth century leaves no doubt that the Japanese evangelising enterprise was publicised as the epitome of success. Francisco Cabral, third superior of the mission, who had initially shared this judgement, in time began fearing that the mission was, instead, doomed to failure. As he perceived the loosening of the internal ties of the Society of Jesus, and the salvation of the catechumens as more and more independent of that of the Jesuits, Cabral concluded that God had abandoned the mission. This study, using little-known manuscript sources, examines Cabral’s attitudes towards his confreres and the Japanese people, to illuminate how particular salvation mechanics could define early modern Catholic missions. Series: Ca' Foscari Japanese Studies 23 Sub-series: Religion and Thought 6 Zampol D’Ortia, Linda, A Failing Mission? Salvation in the Jesuit Mission in Japan Under Francisco Cabral. Venezia, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, 2024-01-31, 167 p. PDFDocument Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press PHAIDRA University of Padua hdl:11168/11.539683 https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/o:539683 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode