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Franciscans and Their Finances

Author : David B. Couturier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 1576593886

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Franciscan Management of Finances

Author : Ordo Fratrum Minorum - Roma
Publisher : OFM Communications Office
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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In the final document of the General Chapter of 2009, Bearers of the Gift of the Gospel, the chapter delegates stated clearly their intention that any document issuing from the Chapter should be a message that “inspires and animates the daily life of the brothers rather than a doctrinal document” (BGG, 2). They further declared that they wanted to place themselves and all of the friars “in the context of the life, needs, questions and challenges of our people” (BGG, 4). They reinforced this concern later in the document, when they stated: “The spirituality that nourishes our life and evangelizing mission is never foreign to the life of our peoples and what concerns them” (BGG, 30). One of the more serious concerns among the members of the Chapter relates to the “ethical use of financial resources in solidarity,” a theme that has come to the fore following the collapse of the global economic architecture beginning in 2008, and its lingering negative consequences in all regions of the world. Concerns regarding the ethical use of financial resources are found in Mandates 43, 54 and 55 of Bearers of the Gift of the Gospel. They reflect a much broader concern regarding economic activity and the role of ethics in promoting the common good, as has been repeatedly expressed by the Church in her Social Teaching. These same concerns were examined by the Union of Superiors General in 2002, in the document entitled Economy and Mission in the Consecrated Life Today. In 2011 the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, in its reflection on the world economy, Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of Global Public Authority, states that “The economic and financial crisis which the world is going through calls everyone, individuals and peoples, to examine in depth the principles and the cultural and moral values at the basis of social coexistence. What is more, the crisis engages private actors and competent public authorities on the national, regional and international level in serious reflection on both causes and solutions of a political, economic and technical nature.” And more recently, Pope Francis, in his Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii gaudium (November 2013), states clearly that ethics and economy can no longer be divorced but must be united in their promotion of the common good (cf. num. 52-60, 203-207, et passim). The present document addresses all of these concerns, but it is a specific response to Mandate 54 of the General Chapter, which calls for “a program for Initial and Ongoing Formation that will educate the Entities of the Order on the theme of finances, paying particular attention to transparency, solidarity and ethics” (BGG, Mandate 54). The General Administration offers this document as a source of reflection and also as a challenge to all friars, to be used for both Ongoing and Initial Formation throughout the Order. My special thanks go to the Office of Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation and to the General Treasurer for their essential contribution in its elaboration, along with the many friars and members of the General Definitorium who offered helpful suggestions and comments. We pray that this reflection will help us to live more faithfully our Franciscan commitment to the Gospel through an ethical use of resources in favor of the poor.

The Spiritual Franciscans

Author : David Burr
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271023762

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Winner of the 2002 John Gilmary Shea Prize and the 2002 Howard R. Marraro Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association. When Saint Francis of Assisi died in 1226, he left behind an order already struggling to maintain its identity. As the Church called upon Franciscans to be bishops, professors, and inquisitors, their style of life began to change. Some in the order lamented this change and insisted on observing the strict poverty practiced by Francis himself. Others were more open to compromise. Over time, this division evolved into a genuine rift, as those who argued for strict poverty were marginalized within the order. In this book, David Burr offers the first comprehensive history of the so-called Spiritual Franciscans, a protest movement within the Franciscan order. Burr shows that the movement existed more or less as a loyal opposition in the late thirteenth century, but by 1318 Pope John XXII and leaders of the order had combined to force it beyond the boundaries of legitimacy. At that point the loyal opposition turned into a heretical movement and recalcitrant friars were sent to the stake. Although much has been written about individual Spiritual Franciscan leaders, there has been no general history of the movement since 1932. Few people are equipped to tackle the voluminous documentary record and digest the sheer mass of research generated by Franciscan scholars in the last century. Burr, one of the world's leading authorities on the Franciscans, has given us a book that will define the field for years to come.

Memories of the Irish Franciscans

Author : J. F. O'Donnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Franciscans in Ireland
ISBN : HARVARD:HNPEDG

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Trade and Finance in Global Missions (16th-18th Centuries)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004444195

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Trade and Finance in Global Missions (16th-18th Centuries) is a collection of articles analysing the interplay between economic and Catholic missions in the early modern period and in the global context of Christian expansion.

The Genesis and Ethos of the Market

Author : L. Bruni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137030528

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A discussion of the anthropological roots of the market, tracing its development using the history of ideas and cultures as well as simple game theory. In his analysis of market ethics Bruni calls for a reconsideration of some of the central tenets of modern political economy, and the need for a new spirit of capitalism.

Two Churches

Author : Robert Brentano
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1988-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520908451

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This book is not meant to be a definitive exploration of the whole of the two churches in any case. The attempt would be absurd. But the book is not meant, either, to be an intense exploration of "certain aspects" of the two churches. It is meant rather to be an extended essay about the connected differences between the two churches, to use "aspects" as touchstones for comparison. It is meant to be a comparison of two total styles. These are not architectural styles, although there is a marked and significant difference between English and Italian ecclesiastical architecture in the thirteenth century. The nonarchitectural style of the thirteenth-century Italian church might in fact be called sustained Romanesque, or perhaps sustained Burgundian. Comparing England (or Britain) with Italy in order to expose more fully one or both is not a new idea. Historians, like Tacitus and Collingwood, have made the comparison, and so have poets, like Browning and, with superb intellectuality, Clough. This is, at least locally, where angels feared to tread. The famous Venetian Anonymous wrote from the other side in his Relation (of about 1500), and condensed for us his comparison in the observation that unlike the Italians the English felt no real love, only lust. The spring bough and the melon-flower, Collingwood's city and field—the long continuity of the difference is startlingly apparent. Explaining the continuity (and perhaps there is no more difficult sort of historical explanation—its difficulty is painful to the mind) is not the job that this book sets itself. But it would be dull and dishonest to ignore the fact that the continuity exists. All that this book has to say may be no more than that the thirteenthcentury Italian church was in fact, as Browning warned, a melon-flower. The book may be only a gloss on amore. The symbol is more inclusive, more evocative, less guilty of excluding the essential but undefined, than detailed description can be. Melon-flower and amore, however, fortunately for the purpose of this book, say very little about the intricate, connected detail of administrative history. Collingwood's (after Tacitus's) city against field presses less deeply but says more. The general difference between the styles of the English and Italian churches has a great deal to do, and very directly, with the fact that the inhabitants of Italy were continually city-dwellers and the inhabitants of Britain were essentially not. Although this book is about both England and Italy, it approaches them differently. The thirteenth-century Italian church is, particularly in English and French, practically unknown. Before it can be explained or analyzed, it must be recreated, formed again in detail. The job is in part really archaeological. The outline of past existence must be uncovered. This is not at all true of the thirteenth-century English church. It has been well explored. This disparity in past observation forces my book to talk much more of Italy than of England; but, if it is a book about one church rather than the other, it is a book about England. England is meant to be seen, for a change, against what it was not. In this sort of profile it has a different look. England may no longer seem a country in the frozen North, incapable, in the distance, of responding fully to Lateran enthusiasm. Its full response to ecclesiastical government may seem clearly connected with its, of course relatively, full response to secular government.

Defining Nature's Limits

Author : Neil Tarrant
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226819426

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A look at the history of censorship, science, and magic from the Middle Ages to the post-Reformation era. Neil Tarrant challenges conventional thinking by looking at the longer history of censorship, considering a five-hundred-year continuity of goals and methods stretching from the late eleventh century to well into the sixteenth. Unlike earlier studies, Defining Nature’s Limits engages the history of both learned and popular magic. Tarrant explains how the church developed a program that sought to codify what was proper belief through confession, inquisition, and punishment and prosecuted what they considered superstition or heresy that stretched beyond the boundaries of religion. These efforts were continued by the Roman Inquisition, established in 1542. Although it was designed primarily to combat Protestantism, from the outset the new institution investigated both practitioners of “illicit” magic and inquiries into natural philosophy, delegitimizing certain practices and thus shaping the development of early modern science. Describing the dynamics of censorship that continued well into the post-Reformation era, Defining Nature's Limits is revisionist history that will interest scholars of the history science, the history of magic, and the history of the church alike.

Dante and the Franciscans

Author : N. R. Havely
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521833051

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Nicholas Havely examines the connections between Dante, the Franciscans and the Papacy as they appear in the Commedia, and presents the poem as one concerned with an often dramatic confrontation between authority and idealism in the church. Havely draws on a wide range of literary, historical and art historical sources relating to the controversy about Franciscan poverty during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. He argues that the Spiritual Franciscans' strict interpretations of evangelical poverty provided the poet with a means of addressing the state of the contemporary Papacy and of imagining the renewal of the church. He also explores the origins and afterlife of the debate about this form of poverty and Dante's contribution to it. This study will appeal to scholars interested in medieval religious and intellectual history, as well as to readers of Dante's poem and other medieval visionary and political writing.

Franciscan Wealth

Author : Giacomo Todeschini
Publisher : Franciscan Institute
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Economics
ISBN : 1576591530

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In Franciscan Wealth, Giacomo Todeschini provides a critical and objective study of Franciscan economic theory. As promoters of a rigorous and evangelical poverty, the Franciscans were paradoxically led to investigate all forms of the economic life between that of extreme poverty and that of excessive wealth, distinguishing carefully between property and temporary possession the use of economic goods.

Luke Wadding, the Irish Franciscans, and Global Catholicism

Author : Matteo Binasco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000053708

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This book explores the endeavors and activities of one of the most prominent early modern Irishmen in exile, the Franciscan Luke Wadding. Born in Ireland, educated in the Iberian Peninsula, Wadding arrived in Rome in 1618, where he would die in 1657. In the "Eternal City," the Franciscan emerged as an outstanding theologian, a learned scholar, a diplomat, and a college founder. This innovative collection of chapters brings together a group of international scholars who provide a ground-breaking analysis of the many cultural, political, and religious facets of Wadding’s life. They illustrate the challenges and changes faced by an Irishman who emerged as one of the most outstanding global figures of the Catholic Reformation. The volume will attract scholars of the early modern period, early modern Catholicism, and Irish emigration.

Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico

Author : Michael S. Werner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1579583377

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First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Wild Men

Author : Douglas Cazaux Sackman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199745876

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When Ishi, "the last wild Indian," came out of hiding in August 1911, he was quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the fathers of American anthropology. When Kroeber and Ishi came face to face, it was a momentous event, not only for each man but also for the cultures they represented. Each stood on the brink--one was in danger of losing something vital while the other was in danger of disappearing altogether. Ishi was a survivor, and he viewed the bright lights of the big city with a mixture of awe and bemusement. What surprised everyone is how handily he adapted himself to the modern city while maintaining his sense of self and his culture. Kroeber was professionally trained to document Ishi's culture and his civilization. What he didn't count on was how deeply working with the man would lead him to question his own profession and his civilization--how it would rekindle a wildness of his own. Although Ishi's story has been told before in film and fiction, Wild Men is the first book to focus on the depth of Ishi and Kroeber's friendship. Exploring what their intertwined stories tell us about Indian survival in modern America and about America's fascination with the wild, this text is an ideal supplement for courses on Native American history, the U.S. West, and the history of California.