FRAN 402 - The Rule of the Secular Franciscan Order: Origins, Development, Interpretation

(1 IU)

A course developed to make accessible the riches of the text “De Illis Qui Faciunt Penitentiam” The Rule of the Secular Franciscan Order: Origins, Development, Interpretation, authored by Fr. Robert M. Stewart. O.F.M. Fr. Bob applied the tools used in modern Biblical scholarship to analyze the Rule of the Secular Franciscan Order promulgated on June 24, 1978. Fr. Bob’s study of the text and its sources led him on a seven year journey that took him physically to Rome to study the archives of the Secular Franciscan Order and intellectually back to the Origins of the SFO in the early 13th century, and even earlier to the beginnings of the penitential movement with the Church.