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51:, took to heart the injunction in Luke 9:3 to "Take nothing for the journey, neither walking stick, nor sack, nor food, nor money, and let no one take a second tunic." The mendicant practice of begging for alms, itself, caused some hard feelings; both on the part of monastic orders sometimes dependent on the same donors, and the donors themselves when faced with repeated appeals from local friars in lieu of more distant potential benefactors. 540: 381: 555: 54:
Over time, as the order grew, it faced the demands of caring for sick or elderly friars, and providing for those sent to university for theological training. One method to deal with this was a legal construct whereby gifts would be placed in the name of a patron, held in trust for the friars' use. In
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this way, they need not be perennially destitute. The "Spirituals" felt that this abrogated the spirit of the founder, and believed a restricted use of property was more in keeping with the rule. A lengthy theological discussion then ensued as to what was intended and required by the Rule.
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Debate about the doctrine of the absolute poverty of Christ came to a head in what is known as the theoretical poverty controversy in 1322–23.
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of friars, particularly prominent between 1210 and 1323. The key tenet of the doctrine of absolute poverty was that Christ and the
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Jürgen Miethke, ‘Der “theoretische Armutsstreit” im 14. Jahrhundert. Papst und Franziskanerorden im Konflikt um die Armut,’ in
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Melanie Brunner, 'Pope John XXII and the Michaelists: The Scriptural Title of Evangelical Poverty in Quia vir reprobus',
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Franciscan Poverty: The Doctrine of the Absolute Poverty of Christ and the Apostles in the Franciscan Order 1210–1323
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had no property, whether individually or shared. Debate about the doctrine came to a head in what is known as the
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Pope John XXII and his Franciscan Cardinal: Bertrand de la Tour and the Apostolic Poverty Controversy
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Gelobte Armut. Armutskonzepte der franziskanischen Ordensfamilie vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart
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The Spiritual Franciscans: From Protest to Persecution in the Century after Saint Francis
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Early Franciscans were itinerant preachers, who, following their founder
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The economics of property rights in early and medieval Christianity,
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doctrine
Franciscan order
apostles
Francis of Assisi
Pope John XXII
heretical
papal bull
dominion
Fall of Man
Apostolic poverty
Christian views on poverty and wealth
Imitation of Christ
Corporate poverty
The Name of the Rose


doi
10.1163/18712428-09402002
Jones, John D., The Poverty of Christ and the Apostles, PIMS, 1999, Intro p. 2
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9780888442871
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Franciscans
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Rule of Saint Clare
Tau Cross
Franciscan Crown

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