The Poverty of Riches : St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology) - Tapa blanda

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Baxter Wolf, Kenneth

 
9780195182804: The Poverty of Riches : St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)
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ISBN 10: 0195182804 ISBN 13: 9780195182804
Editorial: Oxford University Press USA, 2005

Sinopsis

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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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

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Oxford University Press USA
Año de publicación
2005
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ISBN 10 
0195182804
ISBN 13 
9780195182804
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9780195158083: The Poverty of Riches: St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)

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ISBN 10:  0195158083 ISBN 13:  9780195158083
Editorial: OUP USA, 2003
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