Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- Part One The Old Orders, 1216—1340
- Part Two The Friars, 1216–1340
- Chap. XI The Friars Minor
- Chap. XII The coming of the Minors
- Chap. XIII The order of Preachers
- Chap. XIV The Preachers in England
- Chap. XV The evolution of the Franciscan ideal
- Chap. XVI The apostolic work of the Friars
- Chap. XVII Carmelites, Austin Hermits and lesser orders
- Chap. XVIII The early English Franciscan scholastics
- Chap. XIX Doctrinal and moral controversies: Kilwardby and Pecham
- Chap. XX The Friars from the Council of Lyons to William of Ockham (1272–1340)
- Part Three The Monasteries and their World
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Chap. XVII - Carmelites, Austin Hermits and lesser orders
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- Part One The Old Orders, 1216—1340
- Part Two The Friars, 1216–1340
- Chap. XI The Friars Minor
- Chap. XII The coming of the Minors
- Chap. XIII The order of Preachers
- Chap. XIV The Preachers in England
- Chap. XV The evolution of the Franciscan ideal
- Chap. XVI The apostolic work of the Friars
- Chap. XVII Carmelites, Austin Hermits and lesser orders
- Chap. XVIII The early English Franciscan scholastics
- Chap. XIX Doctrinal and moral controversies: Kilwardby and Pecham
- Chap. XX The Friars from the Council of Lyons to William of Ockham (1272–1340)
- Part Three The Monasteries and their World
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the history of the Church it has repeatedly happened that a dynamic idea, taking shape in a great religious institute, has found numerous admirers who have modelled new and similar families upon the first exemplar or who, originally members of a separate but kindred establishment, have come into the magnetic field of the more powerful agent, and have been drawn to merge with it, or at least to take their colour from it. Thus in the early twelfth century the congregation of Savigny, originally an independent growth of the same spiritual movement that had driven Stephen Harding and his fellows into the wilderness, merged its own individuality in that of Cîteaux; thus also, though in a different way, Cîteaux gave much of its spirit and outward organization to the institutes of Norbert of Xanten and Gilbert of Sempringham. Four hundred years later, in a manner still more striking, the Company of Jesus not only served as a close model for innumerable independent congregations of men and women, but also attracted and was imitated by not a few of the older monastic bodies, in whose constitutions features borrowed from the Jesuits may still be recognized to-day.
So, in the early thirteenth century, it was with the friars. The two original institutes of Francis and Dominic had each given something entirely new to the religious world. The gift of the former had been in the main spiritual: the ideal of poverty and simplicity added to that of apostolic service of the poor; all, in fact, that the world associates with the name of friar.
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- Religious Orders Vol 1 , pp. 194 - 204Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1979