![]() The reader is rewarded with many fresh perspectives on Francis. This biography, published shortly after Chesterton's conversion, is universally considered the best appreciation of Francis' life, one that gets to the heart of the matter. That is, he had no need of possessions as those were merely items that would take his focus off the task at hand. The reader is rewarded with many fresh perspectives on Francis."-Franciscan He exemplified great trust in God and relied on the logic as Chesterton puts it, that a friar was freer than ordinary men because as a friar he was free from the world. Chesterton converted to Catholicism in 1922 because "only the Roman Church could have produced a Saint Francis of Assisi." ![]() Chesterton examines the existence of the pure eccentric and the devout mystic in one man, offering an understanding of Saint Francis in both body and soul. Yet Francis also acknowledged the mystic responsibility to communicate his divine experience. This acclaimed biography of Saint Francis examines the life of a pure artist, a man "whose whole life was a poem." Here is the Saint Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals, and who invented the crèche. ![]() ![]() Saint Francis of Assisi is one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. Biblical Criticism & Interpretation (211).Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (24).Human Resources & Personnel Management (44). ![]()
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