Dominikankontinuiteterna

Dominikankontinuiteterna is a term used in Swedish-language scholarship to describe the persistence and transmission of Dominican practices, institutions, and ideas across historical periods. It denotes a framework for examining how organizational structures, intellectual life, and devotional customs endure amid political, cultural, and social change within the Dominican tradition and its wider Catholic sphere.

The concept covers institutional continuity (monastic houses, formation programs, governance), intellectual continuity (scholastic methods, theology, philosophy, pedagogy), devotional and liturgical continuity (preaching style, vow tradition, rosary devotion), and social influence (missionary networks, lay associations). It also includes material culture like libraries, manuscripts, and artifacts.

In practice, Dominikankontinuiteterna is used to compare how Dominican communities maintain practices while adapting to local contexts, such as new institutional settings in Europe, the Americas, and Asia, as well as how the order's educational mission persisted in universities and schools.

Critics argue that the focus on continuity can obscure periods of disruption and reform; supporters view it as a lens to understand resilience and long-term influence.

See also: Dominicans; religious orders; medieval scholasticism; ecclesiastical history.