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Early Voices for Justice

I: Justice, Peace and Dominicans 1216–1999

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Richard Finn OP
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Preachers often find it difficult to make themselves heard. Humbert of Romans emphasised the need for a measured delivery in a strong voice, but getting a hearing has always been more than a matter of mere audibility. The first Dominican chapels were small, built on the cheap in the expectation that the friars would find a welcome and a pulpit in others’ churches. They had not reckoned on the hostility of parochial clergy. It was soon discovered that they would have to build large churches of their own. From its earliest years the Order of Preachers had to adopt new ways of communicating the Gospel, or go unheard. A certain ingenuity and willingness to copy a good idea is traditional for us, where we do not decline. In Florence not only the church but also the piazza outside Santa Maria Novella would have to be enlarged after 1245 to accommodate the crowds who attended the open air sermons. And now the Dominican Family has its presence on the Internet.

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Research Article
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New Blackfriars , Volume 79 , Issue 927 , May 1998 , pp. 212 - 221
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Copyright © 1998 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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