The Spiritual Franciscans (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Muzzey, David Saville

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330455983 ISBN 13 : 9781330455982

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

When an idea finds acceptance in the world, it clothes itself in forms available for it and adiapted to it. Socialization means institutionalization. For if an idea is to have growth, it must adopt propagandism; and propagandism implies the equipment of mjiesionaries, the establishment of posts and stations, the instruction of neop hytes, the control of agents, the commission of tribunals in a single word, organization. To a majority of converts to any religious ideal this course of development seems normal and desirable; the index of the triumph of the ideal among men. But a minority have always deplored sudh adaptation and institutionalization as a weak compromise wiljh the world, or even as a treasonable surrender of the pure ideal to those very powers of evil for whose destruction it was conceived. Moreover, the zealous minority, bound into a closer solidarity by the very fact of their minority, their puritanism heightened by persecution, have quite commonly developed the pathological traits consequent upon the conviction of persecuted innocence and impotent fidelity. They have appealed from the world to heaven, from time to eternity, from man to God. Their language has ceased to be a medium of human commerce, and has become an instrument of supernatuml oracles. Their refuge has been in retreat, absorption, mysticism, prophecy, ecstasy. Their fate, in so far as they have not been crushed by persecution, reconciled by persuasion, or sobered by compromise, has been a gradual weakening to final euthanasia. The Franciscan zealots were such a minority. Their fortunes during the century from the death of Saint Francis of Assisi to the death of Pope John XXII form an important chapter of medieval history.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330455983
• ISBN 13: 9781330455982
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 116