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by Kenneth Baxter Wolf
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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 deliberatepursuit 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 abouttransforming 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 ofhis contact with them?...
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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.
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- Title The Poverty of Riches: St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered
- Author Kenneth Baxter Wolf
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, 2005. 176p. Paperback. Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Wolf's argument is assured and erudite
- Date 2005-03-31
- ISBN 9780195182804 / 0195182804
- Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.41 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.04 cm)
- Reading level 1750
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- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Dewey Decimal Code 271.302
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