Sentences with word «mendicant»
Wycliffe also leveled sharp criticisms against papal authority, the legitimacy of mendicant orders, and the doctrine of transubstantiation.
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This lesson explores the idea of mendicants and uses examples from Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity as learning tools
In Australia's so - called «wind power capital», South Australia, it's hapless Labor government could never be accused of letting common sense get in the way of its efforts to destroy any remaining economic advantage that the beleaguered and mendicant state might still possess.
I was wandering with mendicant nuns and staying with my parents.
Within my family's religion, which is Jainism, mendicant nuns are an order of female ascetics.
But after he had seen, despite every effort to keep him from doing so, the ugly facts of sickness, poverty, old age and death, he finally renounced his princely home and comfort, even a new - born son and his much loved wife, Yasodhara, and went out into the world to become, first, a wandering mendicant seeking by austerity and ascetic practices to find release.
The new mendicant orders that had already begun to develop by the middle of the thirteenth century were challenged by many in the Church who argued that there was no scriptural warrant for creating these orders.
In front, a well - trained mendicant preacher employed his highest rhetorical abilities to paint the frank severity of God's judgment.
We beg you, mend the ways of pretend mendicants, imposters who pose pious and pitifulon our staked - out streets.Uncover the shades of the blindwho really see, the crippled who limpselectively in rich company.Competition is keen; let's keep the neighborhood cleanof riff - raff and....
It is not, Lukacs announces at the beginning, a book about characters but about years, and it brings to us some of the peculiar essences of those years: the stillness of a Friday evening at the Philadelphia Club in early September of 1901, the poverty and dreariness of 1919 Vienna («Cold rain, mendicant streets, the November sky the color of sour milk»), the «pervasive cloud of perfume and cigarette smoke» in a crowded Berlin drawing - room in 1932.
It recalls the witness of the early mendicant orders in the face of a world hostile to the gospel.
In her display, images of beggars from art history are exhibited on a low table, quite literally begging a closer look, while a series of nine woodblock prints, based on Ernst Barlach's 1919 sculpture of a cloaked mendicant, initially seem childlike in terms of their composition, but prove deeply affecting.
A new development in the thirteenth century was the coming of the Friars or mendicant orders, namely, the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Carmelites and the Augustinians.
When Wycliffe and Hus took issue with mendicants and papal overreach, they were simply expressing a «long - standing frustration,» not making an innovative call for the abolition of «human institutions.»
And, as Sudanese Catholic Bishop Macram Gassis once instructed me, these Christians are not «mendicants.»
And the birth of the mendicant orders was one of the church's all - time creative responses to that crisis.
We neglect to think about it at our own risk — one day we will need the prayers of those we leave behind, and now we should remember those who have died — the Curé of Ars calls them «the mendicants of another world.»
The promise still stands and the task yet remains, for God ever renews his church through new forms of preaching — the martyrs, the monks, the mendicants, the missionaries, the reformers, the awakeners, the pastors and the teachers.
To some degree their origin and growth coincided with the increase in the urban population, a feature of the thirteenth century, but that association was not necessarily responsible for their beginning and their popularity The two largest of the mendicant orders were the Franciscans and the Dominicans.
Among the most distinguished were Roger Bacon and Albertus Magnus, who had been enlisted in the early enthusiasm of the mendicant orders.
The high tide of the theological activity of the period and of the schoolmen coincided with the early years of the mendicant orders.
The thirteenth century was marked by the appearance of another kind of monastic movement, that of the mendicant orders, the friars.
The man who more than any other brought Maritain into the Catholic faith was the self - described «pilgrim of the absolute,» the mendicant layman and writer Leon Bloy, author of the searing novel The Woman Who Was Poor.
Let cardinals, archbishops, bishops, the heads of the monastic, mendicant and military orders be called, let factors of theology and law from the university and the representatives of the Civil power be summoned, and let such a council and the schism, condemn heretics and reform the Church.
One deals with happenings just after the birth of the Buddha, another with his renunciation of home and his princely birthright, and his experiences as a mendicant.
He carried his meditation practices for four years at multiple places as a Sanyasa - mendicant.
It's a movie with poignant resonances in the Britain of 2014, where the miners» strike ended with generations who have never known work, mendicants of a state which has resolved to rely for its power on imported coal and fracking.
SF novel about Zahra, a mendicant healer of women on a planet where women are beaten and forced into bethrothal.
The iconography, too, indicates the role of the Mendicant orders in introducing Byzantine ideas and usages to the west.
He grew up working class and once lived among the laborers, mendicants, and prostitutes he now hires to perform pieces illustrating the futility of alienated labor.