O BOGU POSVEĆENOM ŽIVOTU U PATRISTICI. PRIKAZ POVIJESNOGA RAZVOJA I DUHOVNOSTI
ON CONSECRATED LIFE IN PATRISTICS. THE OVERVIEW OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND SPIRITUALITY

Summary/Abstract: In this three part paper, the author examines the development of consecrated life in the Early Church. First, he provides terminological explanations in order to highlight the similarities and differences between modern discourse on consecrated life and that from the period of the Church Fathers. Clear terminological distinction avoids possible confusion that may occur if we use the same terms that have completely different meanings. In the second chapter the author then gives a brief historical overview of the development of consecrated life by dividing it into three periods, on the basis of not only the church, but also on social circumstances. In the first period from the beginnings of the Church until the Edict of Milan, virginity develops as the most basic form of consecrated life. Then, during the transitional period in the 4th century, we have the development of anchoritism and cenobitism. And in the second half of the 4th century we see monastic life beginning to develop into a more ordered form of consecrated life. In the third part, the author examines certain elements of the spirituality of the consecrated life, showing the development of spirituality from consecrated virgins to the spirituality of monasticism. For the spirituality of life in virginity he indicates that it was a spiritual exercise of humility in the family, and at the service of the ecclesial community.

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