Francis of Assisi, Movement Maker
Author | : Snyder, Howard A. |
Publisher | : Orbis Books |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2024-05-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Author | : Snyder, Howard A. |
Publisher | : Orbis Books |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2024-05-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Author | : Alice Curtayne |
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1934 |
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Author | : Leo Luis Dubois |
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Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Christianity and social problems |
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Author | : David Flood |
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Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Alice Curtayne |
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1934 |
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Author | : Augustine Thompson |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2012-04-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0801464730 |
"I recommend this book strongly to anyone serious about understanding Francis of Assisi. I admire the clarity and brevity of the writing. With decisiveness, Thompson cuts through the conflicting medieval accounts of each event in Francis' life, adjusts for the hagiographers' spin and creates a credible chronology out of the blurry dates. His knowledge of medieval Italy allows him to provide insightful explanations of the legal, liturgical, and ecclesiastical practices of the time."—Paul Moses, America Among the most beloved saints in the Catholic tradition, Francis of Assisi (c. 1181–1226) is popularly remembered for his dedication to poverty, his love of animals and nature, and his desire to follow perfectly the teachings and example of Christ. During his lifetime and after his death, followers collected, for their own purposes, numerous stories, anecdotes, and reports about Francis. As a result, the man himself and his own concerns became lost in legend. In this authoritative and engaging new biography, Augustine Thompson, O.P., sifts through the surviving evidence for the life of Francis using modern historical methods. The result is a complex yet sympathetic portrait of the man and the saint. Francis emerges from this account as very much a typical thirteenth-century Italian layman, but one who, when faced with unexpected crises in his personal life, made decisions so radical that they challenge his own society—and ours. Unlike the saint of legend, this Francis never had a unique divine inspiration to provide him with rules for following the teachings of Jesus. Rather, he spent his life reacting to unexpected challenges, before which he often found himself unprepared and uncertain. The Francis who emerges here is both more complex and more conflicted than that of older biographies. His famed devotion to poverty is found to be more nuanced than expected, perhaps not even his principal spiritual concern. Thompson revisits events small and large in Francis's life, including his troubled relations with his father, his contacts with Clare of Assisi, his encounter with the Muslim sultan, and his receiving the Stigmata, to uncover the man behind the legends and popular images. A tour de force of historical research and biographical writing, Francis of Assisi: A New Biography is divided into two complementary parts—a stand alone biographical narrative and a close, annotated examination of the historical sources about Francis. Taken together, the narrative and the survey of the sources provide a much-needed fresh perspective on this iconic figure. "As I have worked on this biography," Thompson writes, "my respect for Francis and his vision has increased, and I hope that this book will speak to modern people, believers and unbelievers alike, and that the Francis I have come to know will have something to say to them today."
Author | : Regis J. Armstrong |
Publisher | : New City Press |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1565481100 |
The Saint begins this extraordinary series which brings together "the writings of Saint Francis and those of the early Franciscan witnesses" and it will "be of estimable value to scholars, students, and lovers of Il Poverello as well...a scholarly achievement done in the service of history, theology and spirituality." (Lawrence Cunningham)
Author | : Lawrence Cunningham |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2004-05-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780802827623 |
In this new biography of St. Francis, Cunningham follows the saint's life in chronological order, placing him within his culture, exploring official developments within the Catholic Church, and highlighting the many conversions of Francis as his life played out.
Author | : Henry Clay Vedder |
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Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Missionaries |
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Author | : Paschal Robinson (Monsignor, O.F.M.) |
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