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- Title
THE RELIGIOUS ORDER IN THE WEST.
- Authors
Burns, C. Delisle
- Abstract
The article discusses key issues concerning the Religious Order. The Religious Order was a body of men and women united for the expression and the increase of a certain religious tradition. Religion in this sense does not mean a creed, but a life. The purpose of the monk and nun was to preserve and increase the highest quality of life. They were thus aristocratic; but they were spiritually so because membership in the Order did not involve either possessions or a select physical descent. The Religious Order is only one among many institutions developed during the middle ages. For over one thousand years the idea of a spiritual aristocracy was thus embodied. The expressed purpose of the Religious Order was not at first social. Indeed the Religious Order arose before there was any clear conception of the Catholicism, which ruled the middle ages. The general idea of the Religious Order is the association of men or women for a great spiritual object. The object has never been conceived as selfish.
- Subjects
MONASTICISM &; religious orders; MONASTICISM &; religious orders -- Discipline; SOCIAL classes; RELIGIOUS institutions; NUNS; RELIGION
- Publication
Sociological Review (1908-1952), 1910, Vol a3, Issue 1, p24
- ISSN
0038-0261
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-954x.1910.tb02080.x