Charitable Activities in the Sixteenth Century: Early Theatine Identity under Carafa
The Theatine order was the first of the new orders of clerics regular founded after the schism provoked by Luther. The dominant historiographical tradition suggests that, immediately following their foundation, the Theatines devoted themselves to charitable work. However, recent studies have reveale...
| Published in: | Journal of religious history |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2022
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Journal of religious history
Year: 2022, Volume: 46, Issue: 2, Pages: 303-322 |
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Paul, IV., Pope 1476-1559
/ Cajetan, von Thiene 1480-1547
/ Theatiner
/ Founder of order
/ Charitable works
/ Identity
/ History 1515-1540
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| RelBib Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBJ Italy KCA Monasticism; religious orders KDB Roman Catholic Church RK Charity work |
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| Summary: | The Theatine order was the first of the new orders of clerics regular founded after the schism provoked by Luther. The dominant historiographical tradition suggests that, immediately following their foundation, the Theatines devoted themselves to charitable work. However, recent studies have revealed that their main founder, Gian Pietro Carafa (later Pope Paul IV), created the Theatines in 1524 because he needed collaborators to promote the sacralization of the Church for his struggle to curb ecclesiastical corruption and then against heretics and heresies. At the same time, however, what emerges is that only after Carafa's death did the second generation of Theatines refocus the order on the “care of the soul,” aligning the order with the latent teachings of co-founder Gaetano Thiene. This article reinterprets the history of the early Theatines and aims to define their connection with charity work. It investigates the token charitable activities they performed and how even these activities conflicted with the tasks Carafa assigned to them. To better define the order's identity under Carafa, this article also investigates the difficult relationship between the early Theatines and laypeople, in particular, the women who ran various Italian charitable institutions. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9809 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12863 |