[PDF.36ib] The Poverty of Riches: St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)

The Poverty of Riches: St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)

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 | #2805847 in Books |  Kenneth Baxter Wolf |  2005-03-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.00 x11.00 x1.00l,.59 | File type: PDF | 176 pages

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||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Enlightening, refreshing, readable|By A customer|This well researched, singular piece of writing takes on Saint Francis of Assisi as both the product of his social setting, and as the product of over 1000 years of hagiographies aimed at defining Christian sanctity. It problematizes the role of St. Francis's holy poverty in a way which both nudges at possible modern interpretati| ||"Wolf's argument is assured and erudite, and the book serves as a solid introduction to mendicant spirituality.... I found myself asking whether and how thirteenth-century Franciscan ideals might indeed be relevant to modern life (as I instinctively feel them

Saint Francis of Assisi is arguably the most attractive saint ever produced by the Catholic Church. The unusually high regard with which he is held has served to insulate him from any real criticism of the kind of sanctity that he embodied: sanctity based first and foremost on his deliberate pursuit of poverty. In this book, Kenneth Baxter Wolf takes a fresh look at Francis and the idea of voluntary poverty as a basis for Christian perfection. Wolf's point of departure i...

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