Theologie oder Anthropologie des Kreuzes? Augustin von Alveldts Sicht menschlicher Misere in seiner Erklärung der Klarissen-Regel von 1533/34 (113-154)

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The Saxony friar Augustin of Alveldt OFM starts his commentary on Pope Urban IV’s Rule for the Poor Clares (1263) with a long meditation on the sense and nonsense of human crosses, as compared to Christ’s salvific cross. In fact, he develops a rather pessimistic panorama of human miseries, caused by either fate or moral misbehavior. According to Alveldt, this disaster is quite rarely illumined by Christ’s cross, given the refusal of people to become his engaged disciples with all its consequences. It is the society of his time, including the impact of Protestantism, which is the background for Alveldt’s somber conclusions. In the end, though, his theology has some points of contact with Luther’s theologia crucis. Schlageter largely quotes from MS Munich, Bayerisches Staatsmuseum, 3751, the only existing complete Latin copy of Alveldts’s Rule commentary.