Étienne Pasquier, The Jesuits’ Catechism or Their Doctrine Examined (1602) (Jesuit Studies; Modernity Through the Prism of Jesuit History, 33)

About the Author\nKnown for her translations of Annales School historians, and her analytical bibliography of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Patricia M. Ranum has edited several seventeenth-century sources, the most recent one being the Mystical Writings of Jean-Joseph Surin (Brill, 2018).\nJotham Parsons, PhD (1997, Johns Hopkins University) is Associate Professor of History at Duquesne University. He has published extensively on early modern European history, including The Church in the Republic: Gallicanism and Political Ideology in Renaissance France (CUA Press, 2005).\nRobert A. Maryks, PhD (2006, Fordham University) has published widely on the history of the Jesuits, including The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews (Brill, 2010). He is the editor of the Journal of Jesuit Studies.\nTo oppose the Jesuits in France, Étienne Pasquier (1529–1615) published a dialog between a Jesuit and a lawyer. He called it the Jesuits’ Catechism (1602), which remained central to anti-Jesuit agitations up to the Society’s 1773 suppression and beyond.