Dominican Friar, Lay Saint

The Case of Marcolino of Forlì

Bibliographic Data

ID3582260
AuthorsDaniel Bornstein (0000-0002-4026-9640, Texas A&M University, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume66
Issue2
Pages252-267
Publication date1997-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChurch History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3170657
OpenAlexW2159793316
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited18

The years surrounding the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) witnessed a historiographical revolution that transformed the study of medieval Christianity. One might say that both a new Vatican ecclesiology and the new religious history sprang from the same conceptual root. Even as the Council articulated a definition of the Catholic Church as the people of God rather than simply a hierarchical institution, a number of important scholars were rediscovering the religious history of the Christian people. Shifting their focus away from the traditional monastic treatises on the contemplative life, scholars argued that all believers, and not just clerical specialists in the sacred, had a spiritual life that constituted a proper object for historical study. This new understanding of the history of Christian spirituality rapidly proved enormously fecund, opening as it did novel and exciting prospects for the study of popular religion

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