Protestant contexts of the Young Poland’s reception of St. Francis’ spirituality. Echoes of Paul Sabatier’s thought ; Protestanckie konteksty młodopolskiej recepcji duchowości św. Franciszka. Echa myśli Paula Sabatiera

Catholic modernism, an intellectual trend that developed within the Catholic Church in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, sought to rebuild the Church and to modernise its teaching methods. It combined tradition and modernity, and it was at the level of literature that such link was made – a medium whose effect on religious belief was significant. Due to its reformist tendencies modernism was often called “the new Protestantism.” St. Francis was also the patron of the quest for renewal. A resurgence of interest in the saint was noted in the late nineteenth and early twentieth cen... Mehr ...