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The Poverty of Riches - St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered (Paperback, Revised)
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The Poverty of Riches - St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
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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 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.
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