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The aim of the thesis titled Comparison of the spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi and John Bosco, is to find commonalities follow Jesus Christ at St. and St. John Bosco. Francis of Assisi.The work seeks to answer the question whether the charisma of John Bosco in his time, analogous to the charism of St. Francis of Assisi. If so, what particular aspect of Jesus' life is inspired and specifically how it passed on to his followers. Basic literature from which the work is based, as the memory of St. John Bosco written by him personally and his close associates, the statutes and rules of life Salesian Brothers, writings and biographies of St. Francis of Assisi, the Franciscan sources. Using the Personnel method and comparison in terms of whether there are consistent references to Holy Scripture and tradition, and specifically how at the time these links St. John Bosco and St. Francis of Assisi lived and fulfilling. The work involves the following three areas: 1) Perception vocation to follow Christ 2) The concept of poverty and Services 3) Process Services 4) Marian devotion and relationship to the Church Keywords St. Francis of Assisi, franciscan Spirituality, salesian Spirituality, John Bosco.

In this doctoral thesis, The Spirituality and Mysticism of Nature in the Early Franciscan Tradition, I have begun with an attempt to clarify the notions of spirituality and mysticism. The former, was seen as an approach to God embodied in outlook, practice and lifestyle, and the latter, mysticism, was defined as a felt awareness and knowledge of the presence of God. My hypothesis is that nature played a very important part in both the spirituality and mysticism of Saint Francis of Assisi, and in the spirituality of the movement he founded. In a systematic attempt to investigate my theme, I began with a study of the chief places associated with Francis. They present a kind of mirror of his soul and reveal, I believe, a good deal about his outlook and way of living. They tend to be remote and solitary places, often high in the mountains or near water, often desolate and harsh and usually beautiful, and what was later to become known as `romantic'. I turned then to the world of nature, beginning with the celestial bodies, sun, moon and the stars, and the elements of the sub-lunar world. The world of living things, fruits and flowers, animals, wild beasts and tame, fish and birds was examined. Nearly all the evidence here came from that collection of Franciscan stories and anecdotes which forms one of the great treasuries of stories in world literature. The fourth chapter was devoted to the poetry of Francis, above all to the Praises of God and The Canticle of the Creatures. After examining the circumstances of its composition, I took the stanzas one by one and examined them in the light of what they reveal of Francis spirituality and mysticism. The purpose of chapter five was to gather the fruits of my research and evaluate the hypothesis I proposed. I concluded that Francis, incorporated nature into his spirituality and mysticism in a very original way. I hold that Francis was a great nature mystic, and that his nature spirituality is still full of vigor and potential for the future. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / (D.Th. (Christian Spirituality))

The diploma thesis deals with the medieval controversy over the stigmata of Francis of Assisi. The religious phenomenon of the stigmata is viewed from the point of view of the general development of the spirituality in the High Middle Ages. The work tries to respect the chronological development of the polemics and, accordingly, also focuses on the progress of the Franciscan reflection of the stigmata. One of the chapters is dedicated to the analysis of the origins of the Franciscan tradition of the founder's stigmata. Subsequently, the work describes the resistance against the cult of the stigmatized saint from the point of view of the Franciscan sources and papal bulls, defending the authenticity of the stigmata. The penultimate chapter is dedicated to the development of the Franciscan theology of the stigmata, which resulted in the exaltation of the founder and his order. On the grounds of this development, the stigmata became the subject of rivalry between the Franciscans and the Dominicans, as discussed in the last chapter.

In this doctoral thesis, The Spirituality and Mysticism of Nature in the Early Franciscan Tradition, I have begun with an attempt to clarify the notions of spirituality and mysticism. The former, was seen as an approach to God embodied in outlook, practice and lifestyle, and the latter, mysticism, was defined as a felt awareness and knowledge of the presence of God. My hypothesis is that nature played a very important part in both the spirituality and mysticism of Saint Francis of Assisi, and in the spirituality of the movement he founded. In a systematic attempt to investigate my theme, I began with a study of the chief places associated with Francis. They present a kind of mirror of his soul and reveal, I believe, a good deal about his outlook and way of living. They tend to be remote and solitary places, often high in the mountains or near water, often desolate and harsh and usually beautiful, and what was later to become known as `romantic'. I turned then to the world of nature, beginning with the celestial bodies, sun, moon and the stars, and the elements of the sub-lunar world. The world of living things, fruits and flowers, animals, wild beasts and tame, fish and birds was examined. Nearly all the evidence here came from that collection of Franciscan stories and anecdotes which forms one of the great treasuries of stories in world literature. The fourth chapter was devoted to the poetry of Francis, above all to the Praises of God and The Canticle of the Creatures. After examining the circumstances of its composition, I took the stanzas one by one and examined them in the light of what they reveal of Francis spirituality and mysticism. The purpose of chapter five was to gather the fruits of my research and evaluate the hypothesis I proposed. I concluded that Francis, incorporated nature into his spirituality and mysticism in a very original way. I hold that Francis was a great nature mystic, and that his nature spirituality is still full of vigor and potential for the future. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / (D.Th. (Christian Spirituality))

Orientador: Alexandre Soares Carneiro / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T00:00:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maerki_Thiago_M.pdf: 1616067 bytes, checksum: bbf1766d5d4d8f0c4d65216a0767d576 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: A Legenda Maior, escrita por São Boaventura no século XIII, ocupa um lugar central dentre as hagiografias medievais que narram à vida de São Francisco de Assis e foi por muito tempo considerado a biografia oficial do fundador, responsável, pois, pela visão do santo mantida até o século XIX, quando estudos inovadores foram iniciados por Paul Sabatier. Apesar disso, são poucos os trabalhos que se dedicam à análise literária do texto hagiográfico boaventuriano, mais explorado pela História e pela Filosofia, ciências que não deixaram de apresentar recortes importantes sobre a obra. A primeira nos dá suporte para entender o conturbado momento interno da Ordem dos Frades Menores, o qual influenciou decisivamente a construção da narrativa; a segunda nos ajuda a compreender o pensamento místico do autor, influenciado, sobretudo, por Santo Agostinho e a pensar as Vidas de santos enquanto adoção de um "modo de vida" moldado pela ascese. Nesse sentido, procuramos analisar a personagem santoral à luz do pensamento de Pierre Hadot, principalmente no que diz respeito à associação entre "vida filosófica" e "vida cristã". Através de uma leitura interdisciplinar, desvendamos uma maneira específica de organização da narrativa, em que a construção da vida de Francisco é espelhada na teoria mística de Boaventura, narrando o itinerário da personagem em sete degraus de ascensão, partindo das criaturas até chegar à união com o criador, quando ocorre a estigmatização do santo. Para finalizar, analisamos os conceitos de figura, sermo humilis e gloria passionis, largamente explorados por Erich Auerbach, como recursos retórico-literários importantes para a economia da narrativa e para a construção da personagem Francisco / Abstract: Legenda Maior, written by St. Bonaventure in the thirteenth century, occupies a central place among the medieval hagiographies that tell the life of St. Francis of Assisi and was considered for a long time the official biography of the founder, responsible, therefore, for the saint's image kept until the nineteenth century, when innovative studies were started by Paul Sabatier. However, not many papers focus on the literary analysis of Bonaventure's hagiographic text, more explored by History and Philosophy, sciences that presented important views on this book. The former helps us understand the troubled internal situation of the Order of Friars Minor, which strongly influenced the construction of the narrative; the latter lets us know the author's mystical thought, especially influenced by St. Augustine, and consider the saints' Lives as the choice of a "way of life" shaped by asceticism. In this sense, we sought to analyze the holy personage from the perspective of Pierre Hadot's thought, especially with regard to the association between "philosophical life" and "Christian life." With an interdisciplinary approach, we reveal a specific way to organize the narrative in which the construction of Francis' life follows Bonaventure's mystical theory, narrating the character's journey in seven levels of ascension, starting from creatures to eventually attain union with the creator, when the saint's stigmatization occurs. Finally, we analyze the concepts of figura, sermo humilis and gloria passionis, widely examined by Erich Auerbach as important rhetorical and literary devices for narrative economy and for the construction of the figure of Francis / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

Towards a Franciscan model of Clinical pastoral supervision is a study of interaction between two movements: Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) and Franciscan Spirituality. Francis and Clare were the primary founders of the Franciscan movement and Franciscan spirituality arose from their reflections on their unique response of following Christ. From the early Franciscan sources, essential elements are retrieved. Compassion is illustrated as a key quality of this model through textual analysis of four stories of Francis and his early followers. Clinical Pastoral Education is a result of the contributions of three founders: Keller, Cabot and Boisen. Clinical pastoral supervision (CPS) is a distinguishing concept of CPE. Various models of CPS are categorised according to three paradigms of western society: classical, modern and postmodern. The study concludes by framing a Franciscan model of clinical pastoral supervision. Contemplation and compassion are the two Franciscan characteristics which give this model a unique Franciscan dimension. / New Testament / M.Th.

Either relational contact with God is seen to be existentially attainable or God will become increasingly irrelevant to contemporary society. For Church identity and effectiveness as she serves the world, it is vital that God's initiating power can be seen to impact on this world. As response to fourteen symptoms the Church faces as 'crises,' an inclusive hermeneutic seeks fresh categories for a foundational spirituality capable of catalysing reform and transformation. This comprehensive foundational hermeneutic hypothesised is grounded on three foundational categories of experience, relationality and spiritual intuition. Any reception of such transcendence has to occur subjectively ‘in experience.’ Evasive as it is, experience is posited as a foundational category that needs to be rehabilitated through fundamental philosophy and theology, as well as interdisciplinary explorations. It will be shown that the challenges facing the contemporary Church are rooted in lost experience of transcendence. However the entry point experience provides is never to become narcissistically selfreferential but aims to establish a reciprocal relationship in faith. As an overarching category, dynamic relationality will need to be socially transformative. The deep 'God-person' relational mode, as it synthesises both human capacities and spiritual faculties, is experienced interiorly and as such is called spiritual intuition. It is argued that the notion of, and capacity for, intuition has been widely ignored and eroded. It is demonstrated that a 'reasonable intuition' is a more synthetic faculty 'naturally' open to illumination and infusion by the Spirit than an excessive traditional Church reliance on the workings of reason-intellect. Here the witness of the life of St Francis of Assisi allows simpler and accessible entry into the categories of affective experience and spiritual intuition under overarching relationality. Francis as model, when compared to other Saints, substantiates the three foundational categories. The conclusion chapter tests the foundational theory as it is applied to the fourteen challenges the Church faces. The results of this study, and its applications, offer a promising, fruitful humble metaphysic as 'solution' for the ‘Church in the world’ much in line with Pope Francis' recent approaches. / Christian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology / D. Th. (Christian Spirituality)

Towards a Franciscan model of Clinical pastoral supervision is a study of interaction between two movements: Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) and Franciscan Spirituality. Francis and Clare were the primary founders of the Franciscan movement and Franciscan spirituality arose from their reflections on their unique response of following Christ. From the early Franciscan sources, essential elements are retrieved. Compassion is illustrated as a key quality of this model through textual analysis of four stories of Francis and his early followers. Clinical Pastoral Education is a result of the contributions of three founders: Keller, Cabot and Boisen. Clinical pastoral supervision (CPS) is a distinguishing concept of CPE. Various models of CPS are categorised according to three paradigms of western society: classical, modern and postmodern. The study concludes by framing a Franciscan model of clinical pastoral supervision. Contemplation and compassion are the two Franciscan characteristics which give this model a unique Franciscan dimension. / New Testament / M.Th.

Either relational contact with God is seen to be existentially attainable or God will become increasingly irrelevant to contemporary society. For Church identity and effectiveness as she serves the world, it is vital that God's initiating power can be seen to impact on this world. As response to fourteen symptoms the Church faces as 'crises,' an inclusive hermeneutic seeks fresh categories for a foundational spirituality capable of catalysing reform and transformation. This comprehensive foundational hermeneutic hypothesised is grounded on three foundational categories of experience, relationality and spiritual intuition. Any reception of such transcendence has to occur subjectively ‘in experience.’ Evasive as it is, experience is posited as a foundational category that needs to be rehabilitated through fundamental philosophy and theology, as well as interdisciplinary explorations. It will be shown that the challenges facing the contemporary Church are rooted in lost experience of transcendence. However the entry point experience provides is never to become narcissistically selfreferential but aims to establish a reciprocal relationship in faith. As an overarching category, dynamic relationality will need to be socially transformative. The deep 'God-person' relational mode, as it synthesises both human capacities and spiritual faculties, is experienced interiorly and as such is called spiritual intuition. It is argued that the notion of, and capacity for, intuition has been widely ignored and eroded. It is demonstrated that a 'reasonable intuition' is a more synthetic faculty 'naturally' open to illumination and infusion by the Spirit than an excessive traditional Church reliance on the workings of reason-intellect. Here the witness of the life of St Francis of Assisi allows simpler and accessible entry into the categories of affective experience and spiritual intuition under overarching relationality. Francis as model, when compared to other Saints, substantiates the three foundational categories. The conclusion chapter tests the foundational theory as it is applied to the fourteen challenges the Church faces. The results of this study, and its applications, offer a promising, fruitful humble metaphysic as 'solution' for the ‘Church in the world’ much in line with Pope Francis' recent approaches. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / D. Th. (Christian Spirituality)