ZBÍRAL, David. "Poor of Christ" Not So Poor: A Paradox of the Cathar Heresy. In Past, Present, and Future in the Scientific Study of Religion. 2012.
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Original name "Poor of Christ" Not So Poor: A Paradox of the Cathar Heresy
Authors ZBÍRAL, David.
Edition Past, Present, and Future in the Scientific Study of Religion, 2012.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English apostolic poverty; christianity; economy; money
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Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between the ideal and the practice of voluntary poverty among dissenting preachers in the 12th to 14th-century Europe who called themselves “Good Men” and were labeled as “Cathars” or simply “heretics”. I argue that the “Good Men” used the ideal of poverty and of the “apostolic life” in their self-presentation narratives but at the same time, quite paradoxically, they had very progressive attitudes to money and profit. Indeed, they practiced a specific “religious” moneymaking, sometimes in quite assertive ways. To explain this paradox, I refer to the developmental theory presented by Lester K. Little in his Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe (London: Paul Elek, 1978).
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