PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Pécora, Alcir ED - Cohen, Thomas ED - Schwartz, Stuart B. TI - Uma Exegese do Capital AID - 10.3368/lbr.40.1.59 DP - 2003 Jun 20 TA - Luso-Brazilian Review PG - 59--65 VI - 40 IP - 1 4099 - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/40/1/59.short 4100 - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/40/1/59.full SO - Luso-Braz Rev2003 Jun 20; 40 AB - This article attempts a reading of the condemned writings of the Portuguese Jesuit Antonio Vieira (1608–1697) in terms of the decisive role of Jewish capital in the preservation of the Portuguese monarchy. It views Vieira’s texts as an example of the political and theological thought of the time rather than as a manifestation of any avant la lettre bourgeois consciousness.