The Poverty of Riches
Subtitle: St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780195158083
Subjects: History of religion; Saints & hagiography; Religion - Church Life; Religion; Christianity - History - General; Institutions & Organizations; Medieval; Francis; Religion / Church History; 1182-1226; Francis,; of Assisi, Saint,
First sentence: Sometime in September 1226, only a few weeks before he died, a blind and bedridden Francis dictated his Testament, in which he recalled the circumstances that had led to his conversion some two decades before.
Description: Saint Francis of Assisi is arguably the most attractive saint ever produced by the Catholic Church. Based on a reconsideration of the earliest biographies of the saint, and Francis's own writings, this title sheds light on the inherent ironies of poverty as a spiritual discipline and its relationship to poverty as a socio-economic affliction.