Research Catalog

Title

The poverty of Christ and the apostles / Hervaeus Natalis ; a translation, with introduction and notes, of the Liber de paupertate Christi et apostolorum by John D. Jones.

Author

Hervaeus Natalis, -1323

Publication

Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jones, John D., 1947-
• Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Description

vi, 174 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

""Is it heretical to assert that Christ and the apostles had none of the things that come into use in human life either in regard to ownership of or dominion over them?"" "From 1321 to 1323, debate about this question sparked a passionate and bitter controversy over the Franciscan doctrine of the "absolute" poverty of Christ and the apostles and hence of the basis of the Franciscan practice of poverty. The controversy pitted the Franciscan Order against Pope John XXII and the Dominican Order." "This volume contains a translation of two works from that controversy - Hervaeus Natalis's The Poverty of Christ and the Apostles and a Vatican scribe's summary of the positions of several Franciscan clergy, including those of two prominent cardinals: Vital du Four and Bertrand de la Tour. Hervaeus Natalis (d. 1323), a distinguished philosopher and theologian, was Master General of the Dominican Order during the controversy."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

• Mediaeval sources in translation, 0316-0874 ; 37
• Studies in medieval moral teaching ; 2

Uniform Title

• Mediaeval sources in translation 37.
• Studies in medieval moral teaching 2.

Subject

• Dominicans > Early works to 1800
• 600-1500
• Poverty > Religious aspects > Catholic Church > Early works to 1800
• Poverty > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Poverty > Religious aspects > Christianity > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

• Early works
• Early works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references(p. [149]-153) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction (starting p. 1) -- The Poverty of Christ and the Apostles (starting p. 23) -- Question 1 The Relation of Poverty to Perfection (starting p. 25) -- Question 2 Whether the Opposite of Poverty Diminishes the Perfection of Human Life (starting p. 37) -- Question 2A Whether the Opposite of Poverty Diminishes Personal Perfection (starting p. 37) -- Question 2B How the Opposite of Poverty is Related to the Perfection of a State (starting p. 77) -- Question 3 Whether It Is Heretical to Assert That Christ and the Apostles Had No Temporal Things in Common in Terms of a Right to and Dominion over Them (starting p. 91) -- App A Summary of Franciscan Positions Concerning the Poverty of Christ and the Apostles (starting p. 117) -- Bibliography (starting p. 149) -- Index of Persons (starting p. 155) -- Index of Citations to Scripture and Scriptural Glosses (starting p. 159) -- Subject Index (starting p. 161)

ISBN

0888442874

OCLC

• 41932836
• SCSB-10676116

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library