The Friars and their Influence in Medieval Spain

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Medieval Spain ◽  
James I ◽  
Interfaith Relations ◽  
Educational Role ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
The Church

The mendicant friars, especially the Dominicans and the Franciscans, made an enormous impact in thirteenth-century Spain influencing almost every aspect of society. In a revolutionary break from the Church’s past, these religious orders were deeply involved in earthly matters while preaching the Gospel to the laity and producing many of the greatest scholars of the time. Furthermore, the friars reshaped the hierarchy of the Church, often taking up significant positions in the episcopate. They were prominent in the establishment of the Inquisition in Aragon and at the same time they played a major part in interfaith relations between Jews, Muslims and Christians. In addition, they were key contributors in the transformation of urban life, becoming an essential part of the fabric of late medieval cities, while influencing policies of monarchs such as James I of Aragon and Ferdinand III of Castile. Their missions in the towns and their educational role, as well as their robust associations with the papacy and the crown, often raised criticism and lead to internal tensions and conflict with other clergymen and secular society. They were to be both widely admired and the subjects of biting literary satire. As this collection demonstrates, the story of medieval Spain cannot possibly be fully told without mention of the critical role of the friars.

Saint Francis of Assisi’s Repair of the Church

2008 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 46-61
Author(s):  
Anne Kirkham
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
The World ◽  
Fourth Lateran Council ◽  
Words And Images ◽  
Saint Francis ◽  
The Church

A round 1230 Burchard of Ursperg, a Premonstratensian canon, writing about the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), reported that ‘with the world already growing old, two religious orders arose in the Church – whose youth is renewed like the eagle’s’. The success of the Franciscans in contributing to what Burchard saw as the renewal of the Church’s youth was simultaneously assisted and celebrated by documenting the life of the founder, Francis (1182–1226), in words and images soon after his death and throughout the thirteenth century. Within these representations, the pivotal event in securing Francis’s religious ‘conversion’ was his encounter with the decaying church of San Damiano outside Assisi. His association with the actual repair of churches in the written and pictorial accounts of his life was a potent allegorical image to signal the revival of the Church and the role of Francis and his followers in this. This essay focuses on how references to the repair of churches were used to call attention to the role of the Franciscans in the revival of the Church in the thirteenth century.

Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) and Early Christianity

1994 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. C. Frend
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Church

Thus Gibbon opened the thirty-seventh chapter of the History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, a lengthy chapter devoted to the twin topics of ‘the institution of monastic life’ and ‘the conversion of the northern barbarians’. The connection between the history of the Roman Empire and the Christian Church was indeed indissoluble. The Church was destined to follow the pattern of the empire by gradually degenerating as it grew in strength from original purity in the life of Christ and the Apostles to become a corrupt and baleful influence on the fortunes of secular society. Looking back over twenty years of research and writing (1767–87) he wrote near the beginning of his final chapter, ‘In the preceding volumes of this History, I have described the triumph of barbarism and religion and I can only resume in a few words, their real or imaginary connection with the ruin of ancient Rome.’ He goes on to list ‘potent and forcible causes of destruction’ by barbarians and Christians respectively. As he finally laid down his pen on 27 June 1787 at Lausanne, he concluded with a sentence whose strict accuracy has sometimes been doubted: ‘It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised twenty years of my life, and which, however inadequate to my wishes, I finally deliver to the curiosity and candour of the public.’ The date of this decision was 15 October 1764. Here we survey briefly the role of ‘religion’, i.e. Christianity in the ruin of the Roman Empire.

Church Building and Architecture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis P. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Church Building ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Church

Contrary to popular perceptions, the long eighteenth century was a period of significant church building and the architecture of the Church of England in this era played a critical role in religious vitality and theological formation. While certainly not to the expansive scale of Victorian church construction, the period was an era of significant building, in London, but also across the whole of the British Empire. Anglican churches in this era were marked not so much by stylistic questions as by programmatic concerns. The era produced the auditory church, designed to accommodate better the hearing of the sermon and the increasing importance of music in worship. There were also changes to communion practice that implicated the design of architecture. Finally, some few Anglicans considered the theological implications of historical inspiration but many more considered the role of sensibility and emotion in worship and in architecture as one of worship’s agents.

Defending Catholic Education: Secular Front Organizations during the Second Republic of Spain, 1931–1936

2013 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 848-876
Author(s):  
Kathy Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Education ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Religious Schools ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
Spanish Society ◽  
Religious Question ◽  
The Church

“The religious question” regarding the role of the Catholic Church in Spanish society shaped the often contentious relationship between the Church and state. This relationship entered a new chapter with the coming of the Second Republic and the passage of the 1931 constitution. Among the legislation aimed at implementing the articles of the constitution was the 1933 Law of Confessions and Congregations that outlawed schools run by religious orders. Despite this law, most religious schools remained open. Using three schools of the Sisters of the Company of Mary in the cities of Tudela, Valladolid, and Tarragona, this article shows how orders adapted under the new government. One of the Church's primary tactics was to establish front organizations directed by the laity that permitted the religious orders to circumvent the law in order to maintain their schools.

scholarly journals FEATURES OF THE TEACHING METHODOLOGY OF CHURCH SINGING IN KYIV EPARCHY (XIX – EARLY XX CENTURY)

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (87) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olha Perepeliuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Parochial Schools ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Emotional Perception ◽  
Educational Role ◽  
Teaching Church ◽  
The Church

The article analyzes the church press publications of the XIX – early XX century, which contains information about the methods of teaching church singing. It is shown, that church singing was an important subject of the students' curriculum of the parochial schools, the most common type of schools. It is noted, that Kyiv eparchy periodicals contain a number of publications on the importance of teaching church singing, on the church singing program for parochial schools, on the problems of training singing teachers, on manuals on singing lessons in primary schools. The magazine's publications about the methods of teaching church singing to students of public schools are analyzed in more detail. Especially, there are many notes on this topic, which are published in the magazine "Parochial School". The church periodical press is a very informative source for the study of primary schoolish in the second half of the XIX – early XX century. These publications contribute to the deepening study of church singing in general, in the cultural and educational role of the Orthodox Church. The identification and systematization of publications in the church periodicals of the Kyiv eparchy made it possible to show that the church and school administration paid close attention to teaching church singing. The press noted that the church singing has an irreparable religious and moral impact on the pupils' souls, since in general, in the form of church chants, children are more easily remember church truths and prayers. The church singing provides a sensual and emotional perception of worship. The peculiarities of the methodology of teaching children singing in parochial schools are highlighted: it is also described how the teacher taught the lesson, and what methods and techniques he used. The used teaching literature is indicated. The recommendations of the methodologists of the XIX - beginning of the XX century. The practical significance of this scientific research lies in contributions to the source expansion for the study of church schoolish and the role of the Church in the history and culture of Ukraine.

scholarly journals The Living Word

Kairos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
Monika Bajić
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Faith Community ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Church

The Bible, which is indisputable regarded as the inspired word of God, is written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Man, as an earthen vessel, was used by the Holy Spirit to pen the revelation of God’s truth in Jesus Christ. The Holy Scriptures are “God breathed” words to the Church and are key in interpreting and fulfilling God’s telos for creation. This write-up wishes to emphasize and survey the critical role of the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures. Due to the inspiring role of the Spirit, the word of God is not a dead letter, rather a life-giving word that spills new life into the believer and the Church. Precisely this connection of Spirit and letter marks the Holy Scripture as living and active and conveys the desired transformative dimension for the individual believer and the faith community.

For God or Country: History Textbooks and the Secularization of Chilean Society, 1840–1890

1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen L. Woll
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Church And State ◽  
History Textbooks ◽  
Constitutional Reforms ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
Civil Authority ◽  
The Church ◽  
Power And Influence

The relations between Church and State in nineteenth-century Chile remained relatively calm when compared with the tumultuous events occurring in Mexico during the same era. While the question of the role of the Church in a secular society divided both nations, it was resolved in Chile without violence or bloodshed. Although President Manuel Montt's assertion of civil authority in the ‘affair of the sacristan’ in 1856 angered the clerical hierarchy, there was little that could be done by a church of less wealth, power and influence than in Mexico. Yet, the slow erosion of colonial fueros was not accepted without clerical resistance, which delayed the constitutional reforms limiting the Church's powers in Chile until the 1880s.

The Plantations of St. Benedict: The Benedictine Sugar Mills of Colonial Brazil

1982 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart B. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Life ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Sugar Mills ◽  
Colonial Brazil ◽  
The Church

With the exception of the Franciscans pledged to poverty, the major religious orders of colonial Brazil, Carmelites, Benedictines, and Jesuits, all maintained their religious activities and establishments by means of bequests, stipends, loans, urban and rural properties. Any analysis of the economic role of the Church in Brazil normally and justifiably begins with the activities of the Society of Jesus whose extensive properties spread throughout Portuguese America. Unquestionably, their operations were the most extensive of any corporate group or institution in the colony. The other orders, however, were often regionally important and were always an integral part of the economic life of the colony, sharing in the good times and bad along with their secular counterparts. The following article is an attempt to examine the operations of the Benedictine sugar engenhos in Brazil by analyzing previously usused records. These materials not only reveal a great deal about the management of ecclesiastical estates, but also provide one of the few opportunities to analyze the expenses and income of a series of plantations over time, thus allowing us to examine some of the general economic trends in the colony's export history.

scholarly journals Muzealne zbiory w służbie misji ad gentes

2005 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Jan Górski
Keyword(s):  
Local Culture ◽  
Educational Aims ◽  
Missionary Education ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
Educational Role ◽  
The Church

The church from the beginning of its missionary work tried to substantiate it. Among other things, missionaries kept in their archives artifacts which proved the culture of peoples or nations they evangelized. Not only did they try to preserve local culture but also supported its development. The treasures of culture they collected and kept, in time proliferated and created impressive collections, the cataloguing and exhibiting of which served missionary education. The paper commences with showing the contribution of the church to the preservation of culture of evangelized nations, then it elaborates on the animation and educational role of missionary exhibitions and closes with formal and educational aims which should be accomplished by museums and missionary collections.

scholarly journals Educational role of the clergy according to the teachings of the UGCC

2014 ◽  
pp. 92-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Moroz
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Official Position ◽  
Educational Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Church

The theme of the Church's influence on the political life of the state is one that is constantly focused on the attention of the scientific community, the media and its own politics. The current legislation in Ukraine clearly separates the church from the state. However, both the church and the state are important social institutions that can not but influence one another. The official position of the state in the relevant relations is outlined again by the law. Each of the confessions of the country, through democratic freedoms and within them, is able to implement its own concept of relations with the state. Moreover, the positions of even the largest churches in Ukraine here are significantly different and significantly affect the social realities, which determines the relevance of the topic.

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