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Autor/Herausgeber: |
Thomas O'Brien Normierte Form: O'Brien, Thomas [Thomas O'Brien] |
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Titel:
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Options for the poor in twelfth and thirteenth-century Europe
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Zeitschrift: |
Horizons : the journal of the College Theology Society | ||
Gattung: |
31 | ||
Heft: |
2 | ||
Erscheinungsjahr: |
2004 | ||
Seiten: |
302-321 | ||
Schlagwörter: |
Armut - Waldensische Auffassung - 1100-1300 Armutsbewegungen - Mittelalter Franziskaner - Auffassung der Armut - 1200-1300 Freiwilliger Armut Humiliaten |
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Zusammenfassung/Kommentar: |
ABSTRACT This essay uses the lens of the "preferential option for the poor" to examine the unprecedented turn to poverty by religious movements in late twelfth and early thirteenth-century Western Europe. Three movements are selected from the many and various movements espousing poverty: the Humiliati, the Waldensians, and the Franciscans. The Humiliati developed a communal lifestyle that, in key ways, reflected the emerging urban working class. The Waldensians embraced a radical poverty that rejected all forms of property, but they were progressively marginalized from Catholicism and eventually became targets of the Inquisition. The Franciscans adopted a very similar sort of radical poverty, but their communities ultimately would be assimilated into mainstream Catholicism. The essay places these movements into a dialogue with the contemporary notion of the "preferential option for the poor" in order to discover the ways they might inform and illuminate one another. |