Francis of Assisi :history, hagiography, and hermeneutics in the early documents /edited by Jay M. Hammond ; foreword by Joseph P. Chinnici.
Description
Francis of Assisi: saint, founder, prophet /J.A. Wayne Hellmann --Clare of Assisi: hidden behind which image of Francis? /Ingrid Peterson --"If my words remain in you ... ": foundations of the evangelical life /Regis J. Armstrong --The "letter" of fourteen names: reading "The exhortation" /Margaret Carney --Saint Francis's doxological mysticism in light of his prayers /Jay M. Hammond --Francis, the "new" saint in the tradition of Christian hagiography: Thomas of Celano's Life of Saint Francis /William J. Short --Francis naked and clothed: a theological meditation /Lawrence S. Cunningham --Commercium: from the profane to the sacred /Michael Cusato --Saint Francis as struggling hermeneut /Marilyn Hammond --Into the light: Bonaventure's Minor life of Saint Francis and the Franciscan production of space /Timothy J. Johnson --Speculum: form and function in the Mirror of perfection /Daniel T. Michaels.
290 p. :ill. ;23 cm.
Book Details
Place Published
City
Hyde Park, N.Y.
Date Published
circa 2004
Publication Subjects
Christian saints--Italy--Assisi--Biography--Early works to 1800.
Franciscans--History--Sources.
Francis,of Assisi, Saint,1182-1226.
Call No.
BX4700 .F6 F7225 2004
ISBN
1565481992, 9781565481992
LCCN
2003064875
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.