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A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

by Alfred Wesley Wishart

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Author
Wishart, Alfred Wesley, 1865-1933
Credits
Produced by Christine Gehring, Charlie Kirschner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
Language
English
LoC Class
BX: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Churches, Church movements
Subject
Monasticism and religious orders -- History
Category
Text
eBook-No.
13206
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13206
Release Date
August 17, 2004
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.AND MONASTERIES — By ALFRED WESLEY WISHART — Sometime Fellow in Church History in The University of Chicago — 1900
  3. 3.PREFACE
  4. 4.CONTENTS
  5. 5.LIST OF PORTRAITS
  6. 6.BIBLIOGRAPHY
  7. 7.MONASTICISM IN THE EAST
  8. 8.The Hermits of Egypt
  9. 9.The Pillar Saint
  10. 10.The Cenobites of the East
  11. 11.II — MONASTICISM IN THE WEST: ANTE-BENEDICTINE MONKS 340-480 A.D.
  12. 12.Monasticism and Women
  13. 13.The Spread of Monasticism in Europe
  14. 14.Disorders and Oppositions
  15. 15.THE BENEDICTINES
  16. 16.The Rules of Benedict
  17. 17.The Struggle against Barbarism
  18. 18.The Spread of the Benedictine Rule
  19. 19.REFORMED AND MILITARY ORDERS
  20. 20.The Military Religious Orders
  21. 21.THE MENDICANT FRIARS
  22. 22.Francis Bernardone , 1182-1226 A.D. .
  23. 23.The Franciscan Orders
  24. 24.Dominic de Guzman, 1170-1221 A.D.
  25. 25.The Dominican Orders
  26. 26.The Success of the Mendicant Orders
  27. 27.The Decline of the Mendicants
  28. 28.THE SOCIETY OF JESUS
  29. 29.Ignatius de Loyola, 1491-1556 A.D.
  30. 30.Constitution and Polity of the Order
  31. 31.The Vow of Obedience
  32. 32.The Casuistry of the Jesuits
  33. 33.The Mission of the Jesuits
  34. 34.Retrospect
  35. 35.THE FALL OF THE MONASTERIES
  36. 36.The Character of Henry VIII
  37. 37.Events Preceding the Suppression
  38. 38.The Monks and the Oath of Supremacy
  39. 39.The Royal Commissioners and Their Methods of Investigation
  40. 40.The Report of the Commissioners
  41. 41.The Action of Parliament
  42. 42.The Effect of the Suppression Upon the People
  43. 43.Henry's Disposal of Monastic Revenues
  44. 44.Was the Suppression Justifiable?
  45. 45.Results of the Dissolution
  46. 46.CAUSES AND IDEALS OF MONASTICISM
  47. 47.Causative Motives of Monasticism
  48. 48.Beliefs Affecting the Causative Motives
  49. 49.Causes of Variations in Monasticism
  50. 50.The Fundamental Monastic Vows
  51. 51.THE EFFECTS OF MONASTICISM
  52. 52.The Effects of Self-Sacrifice Upon the Individual
  53. 53.The Effects of Solitude Upon the Individual .
  54. 54.The Monks as Missionaries
  55. 55.Monasticism and Civic Duties
  56. 56.The Agricultural Services of the Monks
  57. 57.The Monks and Secular Learning
  58. 58.The Charity of the Monks
  59. 59.Monasticism and Religion
  60. 60.APPENDIX — NOTE A — NOTE B — NOTE C — NOTE D — NOTE E — NOTE F — NOTE G — NOTE H — NOTE I — NOTE J — NOTE K
  61. 61.THE END
  62. 62.INDEX

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