Franciscans and preaching : every miracle from the beginning of the world came about through words / edited by Timothy J. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Timothy J.

ebrary, Inc.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Medieval Franciscans ; v. 7.

The medieval Franciscans, 1572-6991 ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Franciscans.

Preaching.

Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226.

Francis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 525 pages) : color illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The last 25 years have seen a strong growth of interest in and study of the Franciscan vision not only in areas of philosophy, theology, and spirituality, but also in its application to social, missionary and pastoral work, art, liturgy and exegesis. Building on the wealth of new material emerging, this annual publication addresses current themes in interdisciplinary research on the Franciscan movement from its foundation down to the Catholic Reformation of the late 16th century. Francis of Assisi, whose Gospel performance captured the imagination of his day, fostered a movement of men and women who were fascinated by the transformative power of the embodied Word. Learned or unlettered, theologian or penitent, their shared conviction took form in various gestures, languages, and literary genres. For their part, medieval artisans and craftsmen reflected this Franciscan predilection to preach in architecture, frescoes, and reliquaries. In Franciscans and Preaching, scholars from Europe and North Amercia offer the first extensive English language study of medieval Franciscan preaching. Book jacket.

Contents:

Foreword / Beverly M. Kienzle

Introduction: the Franciscan fascination with the word / Timothy J. Johnson

Preaching in the early Franciscan movement / Michael W. Blastic

Franciscan lay women and the charism to preach / Darleen Pryds

Theology of preaching, a theology of transformation: The life of St. Francis by Thomas of Celano / J.A. Wayne Hellmann

Franciscan bodies and souls: Bonaventure and Bacon on scripture, preaching, and the cura corporis / cura animae / Timothy J. Johnson

Polemical preaching at the University of Paris: Bonaventure's use of Paul as a forerunner of Francis / C. Colt Anderson

Haec visio rapit: mystic love and the erotic in Bonaventure's Sunday sermons / Nicholas W. Youmans

Matthew of Aquasparta's sermons on theology / Joshua C. Benson

Poverty, history, and liturgy in a sermon work of Bertrand de la Tour / Patrick Nold

Gracious women seeking glory: Clare of Assisi and Elisabeth of Hungary in Franciscan sermons / Alison More

Preaching on St. Francis in medieval Germany / Stephen Mossman

Sermons preached to the Friars Minor in the thirteenth century / Michael Robson

Focus on the family: Bernardino da Siena on the common good and the nefarious other / Amanda D. Quantz

Roberto Caracciolo da Lecce and his sermons on Muhammad and the Muslims (c. 1480) / Steven J. McMichael

Fifteenth-century Franciscan preachers in Castile: the example of Valladolid / Francisco Javier Rojo Alique

"Ne effluat in multiloquium et habeatur honerosus": the art of preaching in the Franciscan tradition / Bert Roest

Preaching by image: the counter façade of the Basilica of St. Francis / Jay M. Hammond

Making of a legend: the reliquary of the tongue and the representation of St. Anthony of Padua as a preacher / Francesco Lucchini.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9004231307

9789004231306

Publisher Number:

99952607316

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