Tau PublishingFrancis of Assisi’s Rule and Life
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- ISBN, perfect bound
- 978-1-61956-287-5
- ISBN, EPUB ebook
- 978-1-61956-796-2
- ISBN, PDF ebook
- 978-1-61956-797-9
- Pages
- 244
- Size
- 5.5 × 8.5 in
- Edition
- Perfect bound first edition, March 2015
- Language
- English
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About this book
“He told those who fight for the Rule to keep at it.” — 2 Celano 208
In 1209 the conversations of a small group around Francis of Assisi produced a piece of writing. When Francis and his brothers showed it to the Church authorities, they called it their rule. Among themselves they called it their vita, their way of life. It grew into an emerging manifesto, and even survived its canonical version.
Between the 1220s and 1260, however, it was absorbed and undone into a traditional form of religious life. David Flood, OFM, follows its fate through the Early Rule and the Rule of 1223, Quo elongati, the Constitutions, Bonaventure and the Apologia pauperum, to Peter John Olivi’s last argument for its revival.
That argument failed. “All the same,” Flood writes, “it’s still there for the living.”
Inside
- Foreword
- Part One: The Two Rules: the Early Rule and the Rule, on poverty, pilgrims, work, obedience and study
- Part Two: The Rule’s Fate: the Constitutions, conventual life, Bonaventure, Peter John Olivi
- Conclusion and appendices