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Often appears with: religious persecution and toleration · duty, conscience, and obligation · use of reason · trade, markets, and merchants · trade vs monastic life · strategy and the aims of war · solemn vow of continency · simple vs solemn vows · priesthood and religious office · pope cannot dispense chastity · parental annulment · monastic rule
Usually: detachment (3) · argument (2) · narrative (1) · ambition and its cost (1) · coming of age (1) · crisis of belief (1)
He distinguishes simple and solemn vows for children, arguing that before puberty vows lack force due to weak reason and dependence on guardians, yet can be annulled within limits.
as in imbeciles and madmen. Therefore just as imbeciles and madmen cannot bind themselves to anything by vow, so neither, seemingly, can children bind themselves by vow to enter religion. Obj. 2: Further, that which can be validly done by one cannot be annulled by another. Now a vow to enter religion made by a boy or girl before the age of puberty can be revoked by the parents or guardian (20, qu. ii, cap. Puella). …
He considers whether continency vows admit of dispensation, concluding that solemn continency vows are generally not dispensible because religious profession consecrates the person and the monastic state.
the vow is said to be "commuted." Hence it is less to commute a vow than to dispense from a vow: both, however, are in the power of the Church. Reply Obj. 1: An animal that could be lawfully sacrificed was deemed holy from the very moment that it was the subject of a vow, being, as it were, dedicated to the worship of God: and for this reason it could not be changed: even so neither may one now exchange for somethin…
Pampirus continues: after Jerusalem he goes back to Italy and joins the army, vacillates between commerce and religion, then decides to pursue both through mendicant orders as a kind of trading.
*Pa.* Very often, with better Success than we do. *Eu.* Which of these Orders did you make Choice of? *Pa.* I try'd them all. *Eu.* Did none of them please you? *Pa.* I lik'd them all well enough, if I might but presently have gone to Trading; but I consider'd in my Mind, I must labour a long Time in the Choir, before I could be qualified for the Trust: So now I began to think how I might get to be made an Abbot:…