Jesuit missionary activity as a cultural and religious phenomena of early modern period
This article finds out the medieval mental base of missionary phenomena. The work also traces the transformation of this cultural background due to new philosophical concepts and social as well as religious changes in the Early Modern Period. As an illustration of this process the author uses the Jesuit anthropological views in XVI century. Based on the primary sources this article determines the impact of Medieval and Modern ideas on the Jesuit conceptualization of missionary activity. As a result the synthesis of Medieval and Modern philosophy and theology intended to consider the Society of Jesus as the cultural phenomena of the Early Modern Period. The most significant evidence of such uniqueness is the development of new Jesuit evangelization strategy in XVI century, so called policy of cultural accommodation.