Research Catalog

Title

In the name of Saint Francis : history of the Friars Minor and Franciscanism until the early sixteenth century / Grado Giovanni Merlo ; translated by Raphael Bonnano ; edited by Robert J. Karris and Jean François Godet-Calogeras.

Author

Merlo, Grado G., 1945-

Publication

Saint Bonaventure, NY : The Franciscan Institute, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Karris, Robert J.
• Godet-Calogeras, Jean François.
• Franciscan Institute (St. Bonaventure University)

Description

xxiv, 580 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Franciscan Institure publications

Uniform Title

Nel nome di san Francesco. English

Alternative Title

Nel nome di san Francesco.

Subjects

• History
• Franciscans History
• Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-537) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface / Giovanni Miccoli -- Introduction : the value of the past and the present by G.G.M. -- From the first brotherhood to the religious order -- The conversion to the gospel by Francis, son of Peter Bernardone -- The brotherhood forms itself and the first generation of minors -- The definitive establishment of the order -- The difficult legacy of Brother Francis and his canonization -- The expansion of the order and the changes in Franciscanism -- From living precariously to settled stability -- The extraordinary expansion of the order throughout the world -- The insertion of the brothers into the church and society -- Study and preaching : elements of a vocation and agents of change -- Lady Clare of Assisi, San Damiano and the Order of San Damiano -- The institutionalization of change -- The difference between the evolutionary processes of the order and the forms of government under Brother Elias -- Between normalization and the demands of Franciscan uniqueness --^
• The theoretical and practical re-structuring of the order in the Bonaventurian Period -- The Franciscanism of Lady Clare of Assisi and the autonomous organization of the Order of Saint Clare -- Elements of strength and weakness of a religious order and of its identity -- Within and beyond the Christiantiy of Rome : quantitative and qualitative dynamics of a Mendicant Order -- The Minorite Penitents and the question of the Third Order -- The difficult co-existence of different orientations ; the brothers of the "community" and the "spiritual" brothers -- Spirituals, brothers of the "community" and the papacy : the identity denied -- The impossible unity : plurality of orientations and institutional divisions -- Brothers and "Fraticelli" : obedience and disobedience to the hierarchy of the church -- The apparent stagnation of a normalized order -- From the hermitage to the city : the many faces of the observance in the beginning --^
• The growth of the observants and the resistance of the conventuals -- Papal control of the order and interferences in the government and the life of the brothers -- Between the past and the future : things enduring, changing and new -- The observant conquest of institutional representation of the order and of Franciscanism -- From the "Friars Minor of the Eremitical life" to the Capuchins : the birth of a new congregation -- "If St. Francis was a heretic, his followers are Lutherans" : the Franciscan Evangelism of the Capuchins -- Between the challenges of the "new world" and the wounds of Christianity, an order in decline.

ISBN

• 9781576591550
• 1576591557

LCCN

^^2009922259

OCLC

319173006

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library