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The Poverty Of Riches St Francis Of Assisi Reconsidered Oxford Studies In Historical Theology Kenneth Baxter Wolf

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Publisher: Oxford University Press; First Edition, First Printing

File Extension: PDF

File size: 10.32 MB

Pages: 176

Author: Kenneth Baxter Wolf

ISBN: 9780195158083, 9780195182804, 0195158083, 0195182804

Language: English

Year: 2003

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The Poverty Of Riches St Francis Of Assisi Reconsidered Oxford Studies In Historical Theology Kenneth Baxter Wolf by Kenneth Baxter Wolf 9780195158083, 9780195182804, 0195158083, 0195182804 instant download after payment.

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 is a series of simple but hitherto unasked questions about the precise nature of Francis's poverty: How did he go about
transforming himself from a rich man to a poor one? How successful was this transformation? How did his self-imposed poverty compare to the involuntary poverty of those he met in and around Assisi? What did poor people of this type get out of their contact with Francis? What did Francis get out of
his contact with them? Wolf finds that while Francis's conception of poverty as a spiritual discipline may have opened the door to salvation for wealthy Christians like himself, it effectively precluded the idea that the poor could use their own involuntary poverty as a path to heaven. Based on a
thorough reconsideration of the earliest biographies of the saint, as well as Francis's own writings, Wolf's work sheds important new light on the inherent ironies of poverty as a spiritual discipline and its relationship to poverty as a socio-economic affliction.