アシジの聖フランシスとカタリ派
スポンサーリンク
概要
- 論文の詳細を見る
In the high middle ages, various kinds of populer religious movements prevailed all over Western Europe. Among them the most powerful aud determnied enemy of the catholic church was the Cathars. They practiced the severest asceticism, living as nomads, dedicated to poverty and preaching, and wholly without resources. The people were fascinated by the Cathars, and wondered if "true monks" had at last appeared to satisfy their yearnings. However, the Catharist's teaching was not truly Christian, but a melange of material taken from Gospel and dualistic beliefs which were of Manichaean and Gnostic origin. We find that the early Dominicans were incessantly occupied with fighting these heretics and arguing against them. Although this heresy flourished in Italy under the very eyes of St. Francis, it appeared that their beliefs neither acted upon nor influenced nor aroused the reactions of the saint and his followers. We did not find that he was fighting these heretics. It is true that St. Francis and his desciples did not undertake to fight the Cathars by means of polemical preaching. But this does not mean that he did not know of this heresy and its menace to the Catholic world. If we examine closely the texts of St. Francis' opuscules, we would be surprised to see that the whole religious life of the saint was quite a contrast to the Catharian teaching. His piety to the only one God, his admiration for all the created world including worldly possessions, his passionate love of the humanity of Christ, and his vivid experience of the real presence of Christ within the eucharist were silent but most powerful refutations to the dualism of the Catharists, This dualism rested upon the antagonism of two Gods, one of evil intent, the other of spiritually good. In this, we can surmise that St. Francis knew thoroughly about the'Catharist's teaching and its danger to orthodox Christianity. He undertook to overcome these difficulties by the example of his religious life itself.
著者
関連論文
- 釈尊と修道士 : バルラームとヨザファト
- 西欧中世における民衆宗教運動と言語(シンポジウム「文明語の比較社会史 : 漢文、オスマン語、中世ラテン語」,一九九二年度三田史学会大会)
- アシジの聖フランシスとカタリ派
- キリストの復活をめぐって
- 小教区制の起源(研究余滴)
- 研究余滴 伝説と史実
- 回想・神山四郎先生
- 初期フランシスコ会の教団組織について
- アシジのフランシスの聖貧理念と社会環境の関係
- Gordon Leff, Paris and Oxford Universities in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, New York・London・Sidney, 1968, pp.331(REVIEW)
- John Moorman, A History of the Franciscan Order from its Origins to the Year 1517 Oxford, 1968, pp.641(REVIEW)
- アシジの聖フランシスと宗教運動
- 初期フランシスコ会の形態に関する一考察
- フランシスコ会における党派対立の原因について
- M. D. Lambert, Franciscan Poverty, The Doctrine of the Absolute Poverty of Christ and the Apostles in the Franciscan Order, London, 1961, pp.269(REVIEW)
- 下村寅太郎著, 「アシジの聖フランシス」, 昭和四十年, 南窓社刊(批評と紹介)
- ボナヴェントゥーラのフランシスコ伝について
- ベーダ著長友栄三郎訳「イギリス教会史」
- R. B. Brooke, Early Franciscan Government from Elias to Bonaventure, Cambridge, 1959, pp.313(REVIEW)
- ベーダ「イギリス教会史」 : 長友栄三郎訳, 昭和四十年創文社刊(批評と紹介)
- Gerald Strauss, Historian in an age of Crisis : the life and work of Johannes Aventinus (1477-1534)