Franciscan Learning, Preaching and Mission C. 1220-1650
Subtitle: Cum Scientia Sit Donum Dei, Armatura Ad Defendendam Sanctam Fidem Catholicam...
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9789004280618
Subjects: Franciscans; Monastic and religious life; Europe, religion
Description: Returning to themes first discussed in his book 'A History of Franciscan Education' (Brill, 2000), Bert Roest discusses in this volume a wide range of issues pertaining to the organization of learning in the Franciscan order in the late medieval and early modern period, and the ways in which this order engaged in pastoral and missionary activities in confrontation with the rise of Protestantism. The essays in this volume brake new ground in their treatment of school formation, the chronology of educational developments, and the transformation of Franciscan schools between the mid fifteenth and the mid seventeenth century. They also challenge ingrained scholarly verdicts on the efficacy of sixteenth-century mendicant homiletics, and on the role of the Franciscans in the Dutch mission from the early seventeenth century onwards.