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DECLINE AND REFORM IN THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH. A CARMELITE RESPONSE This session will discuss the search for roots in the competitive medieval world by the early attempts to carve out a place, changes in the spiritual fabric of the late Middle Ages, the 14th Century spiritual giants and practical reforms. -
CALLS TO RETURN TO THE PRIMITIVE SPIRITUALITY This session will assess changes in the old way of life, university life and its demands, a call back to desert values and a look to the future with the reforms of the 1400's. -
HERMITS TRANSFORM INTO MENDICANTS This session will describe the decline of the Crusades after 1187, the Carmelites seek recognition and the ratification of their Rule, the transition from Mount Carmel to the the cities of Europe and what life becomes in commercial towns. -
THE LATIN HERMITS OF CARMEL ESTABLISH THEIR VISION This session will show the origins, hopes and characteristics of the hermits, how the Crusades are to come about, the Rule of Carmel. -
ROOTS OF MONASTIC LIFE AND THE MEDIEVAL VITA APOSTOLICA This session will trace the roots of spirituality through early centuries of Christianity to include what motivated the monastic life, the development of cities and the shift of spirituality and the development of lay hermits and mendicant orders.
