apostolic poverty
Saintly material renunciation
Apostolic poverty is the religious ideal of living without personal possessions, modeled on Jesus and his apostles as described in the Gospels.
The concept became central to medieval reform movements, particularly the Franciscans, who embraced radical material simplicity as spiritual discipline.
The friars took vows of apostolic poverty, owning nothing individually or collectively.
- almsgivingGiving to the needy
- mendicancyState of being dependent on alms
- humilityFreedom from arrogance
- simplicityLack of complexity
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
dispossession · Dominicans · detachment · asceticism · manual labor · communal living · barefoot · monastic · prayer · stewardship · sandals · sackcloth · wealth redistribution · Francis · grace · friar · brotherhood · cloister
- mendicant ordersFranciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, Augustinians, mendicants
apostolic povertyprosperity gospel
Doctrine linking faith to wealth
worldliness · materialism · love of money · cupidity · mammonism