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St Francis of Assisi

St Francis of Assisi

by G . K . Chesterton (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

According to Chesterton St Francis of Assisi anticipated all that is most sympathetic in the modern mood, he exceeds Wordsworth in his love of nature and Tolstoy in his social compassion. However St Francis' love of people was not based on a worldly obsession but was the expression of his complete love of Christ. It is perhaps his key inspiration and legacy that the material things most valued by humanity diminish to insignificance in the light of this love. Chesterton provides a commentary to the life of St Francis. As for his legacy Chesterton concludes; He was above all things a great giver; and he cared chiefly for the best kind of giving which is called thanksgiving. He knew that we can best measure the towering miracle of the mere fact of existence if we realize that but for some strange mercy we should not even exist.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published: 24 Feb 2005
ISBN 10: 0826485820
ISBN 13: 9780826485823

Media Reviews
'I am here addressing the ordinary man, sympathetic but sceptical...; 'I hope that we may get a glimmering of why the poet who praised his lord the sun, often hid himself in a dark cavern, of why the saint who was so gentle with his brother the wolf was so harsh to his brother the ass (as he nicknamed his own body), of why the troubadour who said that love set his heart on fire seperated himself from women and why the singer who rejoiced in the strength and gaiety of the fire rolled himself in the snow...'
Author Bio
G.K. Chesterton was one of the most famous literary figures of the C20th. The author of 'The Man Who Was Thursday', he created the loveable detective Father Brown. Chesterton was a vigorous thinker and wrote many volumes of philosophy.