Orden de predicadores, 800 años: Tomo I. Los dominicos en la política, siglos XVIII-XIX

Abstract

Since before the pontifical confirmation of the Order of Preachers on December 22, 1216, the political has been present in the life and tasks of the Dominican friars. However, that presence is not limited to what the Enlightenment and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries conceived by politics, that is, the science and exercise concerning the governance of societies, especially nation-states, is not exhausted either. in the Greek concept of polis or police, but part of two concepts of the Christian tradition: the person, understood as an individual substance of a rational nature, and the common good or all that is for the benefit of all people. In this book, fruit of the contribution of a wide network of historians, the participation of the Dominicans in diverse disjunctives is studied in which, as homo politicus, the friars have been faced with the inescapable role of taking sides in the political processes assumed by the social groups in which they have been present throughout the world.