| 单词 | brethren of the free spirit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBrethren of the Free Spirit P4. historical. Brethren of the Free Spirit (also Brothers of the Free Spirit): a 13th–14th cent. Western European Christian movement whose members believed that perfect union with God freed the individual from the need to observe conventional moral norms. [After post-classical Latin fratres liberi spiritus (c1318 in a bull of Pope John XXII, or earlier).] ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Brethren > [noun] Brethren of the Free Spirit1765 1765 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. Mosheim Eccles. Hist. I. iii. 757 The death of this person was highly detrimental to the affairs of the Brethren of the free spirit. 1879 Leisure Hour 15 Feb. 108/1 There was mutiny in the very camp of the Papacy. The Fratricelli as a separatist branch of the Franciscan Order in Italy and Spain; the ‘Brothers of the Free Spirit’, a body accused of Pantheistic and Communistic tendencies in Germany and Flanders. 1899 A. H. Newman Man. Church Hist. (1900) I. iv. iii. 557 The Brethren of the Free Spirit are not accurately distinguished in mediæval writings from the Amalricians and the Beghards. 1967 H. Kaminsky Hist. Hussite Revol. vii. 352 The Brethren of the Free Spirit..constituted the form of Joachitism most likely to have influenced the Hussites. 2014 M. Tausiet in T. G. Fehler et al. Relig. Diaspora in Early Mod. Europe viii. 110 The so-called ‘Brethren of the Free Spirit’, a supposed sect with a presence in Flanders and the Rhineland. < as lemmas |
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