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Product Identifiers
PublisherDoubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-100385029004
ISBN-139780385029001
eBay Product ID (ePID)127453668
Product Key Features
Book TitleSaint Francis of Assisi
Number of Pages176 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1987
TopicChristianity / Saints & Sainthood, Christianity / Catholic, Religious
GenreReligion, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorG.K. Chesterton
Book SeriesImage Classics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight6.1 Oz
Item Length8.1 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN57-001230
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume Number10
Dewey Decimal271/.302
SynopsisFrancis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, the greatest saint in the Christian calendar, and one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. By universal acclaim, this biography by G. K. Chesterton is considered the best appreciation of Francis's life--the one that gets to the heart of the matter. For Chesterton, Francis is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved the pleasures of the natural world as few have loved them, but vowed himself to the most austere poverty, stripping himself naked in the public square so all could see that he had renounced his worldly goods; a clown who stood on his head in order to see the world aright. Chesterton gives us Francis in his world-the riotously colorful world of the High Middle Ages, a world with more pageantry and romance than we have seen before or since. Here is the Francis who tried to end the Crusades by talking to the Saracens, and who interceded with the emperor on behalf of the birds. Here is the Francis who inspired a revolution in art that began with Giotto and a revolution in poetry that began with Dante. Here is the Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals, who invented the creche.
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- 02. Okt. 2019
Describes the beauty of St. Francis' life
Excellent book on St Francis from the perspective of GK. Allow the reader to experience the depth of a Great Saint.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 21. Sep. 2023
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