Franciscans at Prayer

By: Timothy Johnson

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Hardcover | 24 April 2007

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Medieval Franciscans prayed in hermitages and churches, on the road and in the piazza, with song and silence. The unique stories of these men and women, as their engaging texts, stunning architecture and breath-taking artwork suggest, are narratives of souls, enfleshed in their respective worlds of the leprosarium, university, or itinerant preaching. The essays in this book foster a nuanced perspective on Franciscan beliefs and spiritual practices by resisting the temptation to reduce their myriad accounts of prayer to an exclusive, univocal spirituality. By displaying the breadth and depth of these medieval Franciscans at prayer, these essays challenge contemporary readers to look anew at this "cloud of witnesses" from the past, who, both lay and religious, promoted a diversity of spiritual expression that found a familial focus in their mutual passion for the divine and the world they shared.

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"For those wanting a scholarly read taking them to the roots of the Franciscan spiritual tradition....takes the reader further at every stage and will be an invaluable reference work for years to come." Nicholas Alan OSF, Franciscan, 21/3 (2009), 15.

"Franciscans at Prayer is a most welcome contribution to those interested in medieval spirituality in general. It is of special interest to scholars of things Franciscan, who will find a wealth of material illuminating the lesser-known inner world of the Franciscan pious" Neslihan Senocak, Columbia University in Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 77/4, December 2009, pp 1041-1043

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Prayer in the writings of Francis of Assisi and the early brothers	p. 3
Clare of Assisi and the mysticism of motherhood	p. 31
Prayer in the Life of Saint Francis by Thomas of Celano	p. 63
The Prothemes of Bonaventure's Sermones dominicales and Minorite prayer	p. 95
Contemplation and the formation of the vir spiritualis in Bonaventure's Collationes in Hexaemeron	p. 123
Fides quaerens intellectum : John Duns Scotus, philosophy and prayer	p. 167
Angela of Foligno's spiral pattern of prayer	p. 195
Singing with angels : Iacopone da Todi's prayerful rhetoric	p. 221
Just talking about God : orthodox prayer, among the heretical Beguins	p. 249
Friar Alonso de Espina, prayer and medieval Jewish, Muslim and Christian polemical literature	p. 271
Illi qui volunt religiose stare in eremis : eremitical practice in the life of the early Franciscans	p. 307
At prayer in the shadow of the Tree of life	p. 333
Byzantine icons, Franciscan prayer : images of intercession and ascent in the upper church of San Francesco, Assisi	p. 357
Franciscan liturgical prayer	p. 385
The discipline of the heart : pedagogies of prayer in medieval Franciscan works of religious instruction	p. 413
From contemplation to inquisition : the Franciscan practice of recollection in sixteenth-century Spain	p. 449
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