Title Franciscan Learning, Preaching and Mission, c. 1220-1650 : Cum scientia sit donum Dei, armatura ad defendendam sanctam fidem catholicam / by Bert Roest

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Series The Medieval Franciscans ; volume 10 Medieval Franciscans ; v. 10. Contents Franciscan Learning, Preaching and Mission c. 1220-1650: Cum scientia sit donum Dei, armatura addefendendam sanctam fidem catholicam ... ; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Francis of Assisi and the Pursuit of Learning; Introduction; Francis as the Enemy of Science? Images from the Hagiographical Tradition; Francis Accepting of Science? The Letter to Anthony of Padua; Francis the Gifted Idiota?; The Necessity of Studies in an Apostolic Order; The Place of Studies in the 'Authentic' Writings; Tentative Conclusions; 2 The Franciscan School System: Re-assessing the Early Evidence; Introduction Francis's Ambivalence towards LearningThe Stimulation of Learning by Franciscan Minister Generals; Early Franciscan Study Houses or Studia Generalia with a Lectorate Program; Additional Anecdotal Evidence Concerning Lectors and Lectorate Training; The Evidence from the Pre-Narbonne Constitutions; Conclusion; 3 Religious Life in the Franciscan School Network (13th Century); The Emergence of a Franciscan School Network; Franciscan Novice Training and Spiritual Formation; Religious Formation after the Noviciate; Routines of Student Life and Study Organization Spiritual Concerns in Sermons Addressed to Students and TeachersThe Collationes in Hexaemeron as a Franciscan Metanarrative of Religious Learning; Conclusion; 4 Mendicant School Exegesis; Introduction; Early Mendicant Exegesis; Discussing Exegetical Method; Correcting the Biblical Text; Exegesis and the Impact of Joachimism; Later Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-century Developments; The Decline of Mendicant Exegesis?; Conclusion; 5 'Franciscan Augustinianism': Musings about Labels and Late Medieval School Formation; The Problem of a 'Franciscan School'; Franciscan Augustinianism? Augustinian Themes?Conclusion; 6 Franciscan School Networks, c. 1450-1650: A Provisional Sketch; The 'Conventual' Franciscan School Network in the Fifteenth Century; Observant Challenges; Conventual and Observant Positions on Education and the Pursuit of Degrees; The Conventual 'Loss' of Paris and Other Studia Generalia; Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Conventual Answers; Observant Continuities and Transformations; The Place of Studies among the Early Capuchins; Afterword; 7 Franciscan Urban Preachers in Defense of Catholicism in the Low Countries c. 1520-1568; Introduction Catechisms and Devotional WorksPolemical Works; Sermons; Conclusion; 8 Franciscan Missionaries in the North of the Dutch Republic (c. 1600-1680); Introduction; Franciscans and the Rise of Protestantism in the Northern Low Countries; The Franciscan Mission in the North; Franciscan Missionary Reports; Conflicts in the Catholic Camp; Epilogue; Name Index; Place and Subject Index Summary In this volume, Bert Roest discusses many issues pertaining to the organization of learning in the Franciscan order, and the ways in which this order engaged in pastoral and missionary activities in confrontation with the rise of Protestantism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes English Subject Franciscans -- History Franciscans -- Missions -- History Franciscans -- Spiritual life SUBJECT Franciscans fast Franziskaner gnd Subject RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations. Missions Spiritual life Gelehrsamkeit Schule Evangelisation Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9789004280731 9004280731 9789004280618 9004280618

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