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Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Bernard Hours
其他書名
A Mystic in Action
出版Christian Brothers Conference, 2022-06
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralReligion / GeneralReligion / History
ISBN18849042629781884904264
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zlTgzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, who died on April 7, 1719, was the founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, an order of teaching Brothers that would grow to become the largest such congregation, with schools on all five continents. This biography shines new light on his personality, the course of his life, and his work, all of which led to his canonization in 1900 by Pope Leon XIII. He was also declared the "Patron Saint of All Teachers" in 1950 by Pope Pius XII. In some ways, Jean-Baptiste was a paradoxical and perplexing figure. Born in 1651 to one of the elite families of Reims, he was destined for a prestigious ecclesiastical career. But he deliberately gave up this future to devote himself to working-class education and to live in poverty among the poor. While drawn to contemplation throughout his life, he chose instead a life of active ministry, devoting himself to the free education of the poor. To that end he organized the Christian Brothers as a society of dedicated laymen, initially lacking either legal or canonical recognition. For the schools that he founded, he and the members of his new congregation carried out a pedagogical project that had great potential. It is fair to say that Jean-Baptiste was a precursor to Ferdinand Buisson, the father of the Republican secular school in France. Thanks to thorough, scholarly, and well-documented research conducted over several decades by the Brothers, it is now possible to present Jean-Baptiste de La Salle in a new light, revealing a mystic in action. Bernard Hours, professor of modern history at the University of Lyon, is also director of the Rhône-Alpes historical research laboratory (LARHRA). He has focused his research on religious history of the second modernity (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), particularly that of religious orders and the relationships between religion and politics. His work is supported by the scientific research group Cour de France. His latest book is entitled Des moines dans la cité. Paris XVIe-XVIIIe siècle (Belin, 2016). Anna Fitzgerald is a translator and writer from Billings, Montana, who currently resides in Avignon, France"--