Download or read book The World of St Francis of Assisi written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of St. Francis of Assisi: Essays in Honor of William R. Cook seeks to enrich our collective understanding of the world in which Francis lived and the ways in which Francis, together with his followers, has shaped the world ever since. Composed of thirteen essays by scholars from diverse academic disciplines, The World of St. Francis of Assisi considers Francis’s legacy in art, literature, and spirituality, and many of the contributions to the volume focus on the perennial application of Francis’s insights to the ills of contemporary society. Contributors are Greg Ahlquist, William R. Cook, Alexandra Dodson, John K. Downey, Bradley R. Franco, John Hart, Ronald Herzman, Weston L. Kennison, Mary R. McHugh, Beth A. Mulvaney, Sara Ritchey and Daniel J. Schultz.
Download or read book Assisi of Saint Francis and Other Essays written by Joseph F. Wickham and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assisi of Saint Francis and Other Essays of Italy written by Joseph Francis Wickham and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Francis of Assisi written by Augustine Thompson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."
Download or read book Assisi of St Francis written by Joseph F. Wickham and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1926 edition.
Download or read book The Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi written by Saint Francis (of Assisi) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Francis of Assisi The Founder Early Documents vol 2 written by Regis J. Armstrong and published by New City Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Founder is the second volume of the long-awaited and best-selling project Francis of Assisi: Early Documents. All three volumes contain helpful introductions to each section, colored maps, cross references, and extensive annotation. The Founder contains: The Beginning or the Founding of the Order and the Deeds of those Lesser Brothers who where the First Companions of Blessed Francis in Religion The Legend of the Three Companions The Assisi Compilation The Remembrance of the Desire of A Soul by Thomas of Celano The Treatise on the Miracles of Saint Francis by Thomas of Celano An Umbrian Choir Legend A Letter on the Passing of Saint Francis Attributed to Elias of Assisi The Legends and Sermons about Saint Francis by Bonaventure of Bagnoregio Related Documents
Download or read book Tell It to the Birds written by Sergius Wroblewski and published by Tau Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of fifty-one insightful and delightful essays on the Saint of Assisi, written by one of his followers who has spent a notable portion of his life seriously studying Francis.Father Wroblewski poses the question: "What would St. Francis have done today?" Admitting that no one can adequately answer the question, except in the realm of speculation, he attempts to contextualize Francis' ideals by presenting the Saint's radical Christian stance in the context of modern life.He achieves this with remarkable success.You may or may not agree with all the conclusions which become manifest, but you will be motivated to appreciate the insights you will find. The Poverello often was so admirable and captivating but hardly that often imitable. His ideals, so noble and natural to him, are not that easy for others to attain.Father Wroblewski must be congratulated on a job well done. Tell it to the Birds is not just for the birds; it is also for you and all who appreciate the Saint of Assisi.Tell it to the Birds, Fifty One Modern Essays on a Medieval Saint:Francis of Assisi by Fr. Sergius Wroblewski, OFM
Download or read book St Francis of Assisi 1226 1926 written by Paul Sabatier and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is difficult to define the starting-point of the modern movement, which may be called the rediscovery of St Francis--by which I mean the movement through which St. Francis has become to the world as a whole what he was, and indeed more than what he was, to Umbria and Italy, of the first half of the thirteenth century ; more than what he was to them, because while the devotion and love of the twentieth century cannot well exceed that of the thirteenth, the earlier century could not see him from the perspective of 700 years or realise how great a contribution his life and work were to make to humanity."--Pages 248-249, The rediscovery of St. Francis of Assisi, Walter Seton
Download or read book St Francis of Assisi 1226 1926 Essays in Commemoration written by Saint Francis [Bernardoni] (of Assisi) and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Little Flowers of Saint Francis written by Thomas Okey and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book St Francis of Assisi Annotated written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the introduction: "I publish these essays at the present time for a particular reason connected with the present situation; a reason which I should like briefly to emphasise and make clear. Though most...
Download or read book Feed the Wolf written by Jon M. Sweeney and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn from fear and find peace. In Feed the Wolf, author and Saint Francis scholar Jon M. Sweeney explores fifteen spiritual practices from the essential wisdom of Saint Francis for us to apply to our twenty-first-century lives.
Download or read book The Assistant written by Bernard Malamud and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-07-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank, a troubled, somewhat desperate, Italian American, works long hours in the grocery store of a struggling Jewish family in a Brooklyn neighborhood where he develops a secret passion for his employer's attractive daughter.
Download or read book Tell it to the Birds written by Sergius Wroblewski and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Catholic Gentleman written by Sam Guzman and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What it means to be a man or a woman is questioned today like never before. While traditional gender roles have been eroding for decades, now the very categories of male and female are being discarded with reckless abandon. How does one act like a gentleman in such confusing times? The Catholic Gentleman is a solid and practical guide to virtuous manhood. It turns to the timeless wisdom of the Catholic Church to answer the important questions men are currently asking. In short, easy- to-read chapters, the author offers pithy insights on a variety of topics, including • How to know you are an authentic man • Why our bodies matter • The value of tradition • The purpose of courtesy • What real holiness is and how to achieve it • How to deal with failure in the spiritual life
Download or read book The Life of Saint Francis of Assisi Translated from the French of C Chalippe With an Essay on the Characteristics of the Lives of the Saints by F W Faber written by Saint Francis (of Assisi) and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
