Title Christianization and cura animarum in the first Christian communities in Livonia and Prussia during the period of the Crusades
Translation of Title Christianizacija ir cura animarum Kryžiaus karo epochoje pirmųjų krikščionių bendruomenėse Livonijoje ir Prūsijoje.
Authors Ščavinskas, Marius
DOI 10.15181/ahuk.v33i0.1496
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Is Part of Acta historica universitatis Klaipedensis: Verbum movet, exemplum trahit. The emerging Christian community in the Eastern Baltic = Krikščioniškosios bendruomenės tapsmas Rytų Baltijos regione.. Klaipėda : Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla. 2016, [t.] 33, p. 47-71.. ISSN 1392-4095. eISSN 2351-6526
Keywords [eng] Christianisation ; Christian communities ; cura animarum ; militia Christi ; Crusade
Abstract [eng] The paper deals with the relationship between Christianisation and the Church’s ministry in the first Christian Balt communities on the east Baltic coast during the period of the Crusades. It has to be noted that at the turn of and throughout the 13th century, Christian missions were influenced by the attitudes of the new religious movements of the 12th and 13th centuries proclaiming the ‘humanisation’ of the idea of God, and the efforts of the human soul to seek the ‘individualisation’ of salvation. Given these ideas, the paper analyses the forms in which Christianity spread in the Baltic communities, and the impact the inception of the Crusades had on these communities. The research proves that the spread of Christianity took place not only in a ‘theologised’ and therefore ‘difficult’ to understand form, but also in common, knightly (during the Crusades), and other forms of piety. These forms unfolded through the Christian missions and the Church’s ministry that were carried out in parallel, so that they functioned in the first Christian Balt communities in the 13th century.
Published Klaipėda : Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2016
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