The Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism Religious Orders of Men
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Religious Orders
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Publication Year
1963
Publisher
Volume
85
Pages
144
Description
Here is a volume filled with the great variety and colorful history of the different male religious orders within the Church - a veritable historical tour from the earliest hermit society of St. Pachomius to the inner conclaves of contemporary lay societies.
Jean Canu shows how religious orders developed out of the spiritual needs of the world and traces their heroic growth in the midst of worldly temptations and persecutions.
Each historical period, the author points out, engendered a different direction in the creation of new orders. Until the twelfth century the prevailing spirit was contemplation - a retreat from the world. The thirteenth century saw the rise of new orders combining monasticism with proselytizing - a reaction to the emerging humanist-scientific world-view soon to become dominant.
We are shown the great missionary and preaching orders that developed after the fifteenth century in reaction to the discovery of the New World, the secular revolutions, the rise of literacy, the impact of the industrial age, and the advent of anti-clerical ideologies.
Here is a truly invaluable volume for all interested in the spiritual sources of the male religious orders in existence today.
Jean Canu was born in Paris in 1898. He studied literature and history at the Sorbonne. He came to the United States as a Rockefeller Fellow to study and teach French civilization and literature. Since 1950 he has been Professor of Comparative Civilization at Georgetown University. He is the author of Les Anglais chez eux, Les Americains chez eux, Histoire des Etats Unis, Louis XIII et Richelieu, Le Noveau Monde et l'Or Espagnol, and is now preparing Les Etats Unis, une Nation, une Civilisation for 1960. He lives in Washington, DC.
PJ Hepburne-Scott translated Religious Orders for Men from the French.
This is Volume 85 under section VIII: The Organization of the Church.
Taken from the inside flaps.
Jean Canu shows how religious orders developed out of the spiritual needs of the world and traces their heroic growth in the midst of worldly temptations and persecutions.
Each historical period, the author points out, engendered a different direction in the creation of new orders. Until the twelfth century the prevailing spirit was contemplation - a retreat from the world. The thirteenth century saw the rise of new orders combining monasticism with proselytizing - a reaction to the emerging humanist-scientific world-view soon to become dominant.
We are shown the great missionary and preaching orders that developed after the fifteenth century in reaction to the discovery of the New World, the secular revolutions, the rise of literacy, the impact of the industrial age, and the advent of anti-clerical ideologies.
Here is a truly invaluable volume for all interested in the spiritual sources of the male religious orders in existence today.
Jean Canu was born in Paris in 1898. He studied literature and history at the Sorbonne. He came to the United States as a Rockefeller Fellow to study and teach French civilization and literature. Since 1950 he has been Professor of Comparative Civilization at Georgetown University. He is the author of Les Anglais chez eux, Les Americains chez eux, Histoire des Etats Unis, Louis XIII et Richelieu, Le Noveau Monde et l'Or Espagnol, and is now preparing Les Etats Unis, une Nation, une Civilisation for 1960. He lives in Washington, DC.
PJ Hepburne-Scott translated Religious Orders for Men from the French.
This is Volume 85 under section VIII: The Organization of the Church.
Taken from the inside flaps.
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