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St. Francis and the Foolishness of God »

Authors: Marie Dennis, Maire Dennis, Stuart Taylor
ISBN-13: 9780883448991, ISBN-10: 0883448998
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Orbis Books
Date Published: September 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Marie Dennis

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To those who long to do something about inequity and poverty, about consuming consumerism and spiritual emptiness. The mystical and the earthly, liberations and faithfulness, literal poverty as well as the blessed poverty of the spirit.

	Introduction	1
	Prologue: Why You, Francis? Why You?	7
1	The Conversion of Francis: Encounter with the Poor	12
2	Francis and Relinquishment: Ongoing Conversion	28
3	Frauds and Community	45
4	Frauds and Transforming Friendship	64
5	Francis and Nonviolence: Dialogue with the Enemy	83
6	Frauds and Creation: Dialogue with the Source of All Being	104
7	Frauds and Suffering: Dialogue with the Crucified and Risen One	121
8	Francis and Contemplation: Dialogue with the Spirit	142
	Epilogue: Francis and the Foolishness of God	167
	Appendix: The Language of the Soul's Night	173
	Bibliography	183

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