Jos de Acostas De procuranda Indorum salute

Jos de Acostas De procuranda Indorum salute: A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru contextualizes and analyzes the deployment of Catholic missionary forces in the Andes. Its exhaustive approach to the ecclesiastic and political reforms of late-sixteenth-century Peru exposes the philosophical and legal underpinnings of Spain's colonial policies. As this book analyzes Jos de Acostas De procuranda Indorum salute, one of the most important treatises of the colonial period, it explores influences and intentions and reveals context and subtext. Comprehensive in its appraisal of Acostas intellectual achievement, this book is essential for scholars and students of this early period of Christian and European expansion in the Americas. Not only does Gregory J. Shepherd examine Acostas missionary manual against the controversial backdrop of Las Casas and Seplveda, but he also reconstructs the political atmosphere surrounding Toledos massive and intrusive transformation of Andean life. Most importantly, this text carries out a thorough study of the ideologies Christian, Jesuit, and European underlying Acostas appeal for political, social, and ecclesiastic reform.