The essay offers a historical retrospective and an overview of the rebirth of religious or monastic communities within, or at the margins of, the churches bearing the marks of the Reformation, since the second half of the 19th century and especially during the 20th. In other words, the essay proposes to focus how, after four centuries of an apparently unanimous - or at least extensive - rejection of this forma vitae in general, and of religious vows in particular, Protestantism ended up gradually welcoming and once again gradually accepting the various manifestations of a rule based community life. Particular attention is therefore paid to the ecumenical significance and implications of this recovery of cenobitic life in the Protestant sphere.

The Rebirth of Religious Communities in Reformation Churches / Scatena, Silvia; Wirz, Matthias. - II, Paths towards Communion:(2024), pp. 175-207.

The Rebirth of Religious Communities in Reformation Churches

Silvia Scatena
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2024

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The essay offers a historical retrospective and an overview of the rebirth of religious or monastic communities within, or at the margins of, the churches bearing the marks of the Reformation, since the second half of the 19th century and especially during the 20th. In other words, the essay proposes to focus how, after four centuries of an apparently unanimous - or at least extensive - rejection of this forma vitae in general, and of religious vows in particular, Protestantism ended up gradually welcoming and once again gradually accepting the various manifestations of a rule based community life. Particular attention is therefore paid to the ecumenical significance and implications of this recovery of cenobitic life in the Protestant sphere.
2024
2024
A History of the Desire for Christian Unity. Ecumenism in the Churches (19th-21st Century)
Directed by A. Melloni; Edited by L. Ferracci
9789004448513
Brill
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The Rebirth of Religious Communities in Reformation Churches / Scatena, Silvia; Wirz, Matthias. - II, Paths towards Communion:(2024), pp. 175-207.
Scatena, Silvia; Wirz, Matthias
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