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Author:   Timothy Johnson
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   7
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.979kg
ISBN:  

9789004231290

ISBN 10:   9004231293
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   19 December 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Editorial Note ...ix Foreword Beverly M. Kienzle ...xi Introduction: The Franciscan Fascination with the Word Timothy J. Johnson ...1 SECTION ONE: GOSPEL LIFE AND PREACHING Preaching in the Early Franciscan Movement Michael W. Blastic ...15 Franciscan Lay Women and the Charism to Preach Darleen Pryds ...41 A Theology of Preaching - A Theology of Transformation The Life of St. Francis by Thomas of Celano J. A. Wayne Hellmann ...59 SECTION TWO: THE ACADEMY AND PREACHING Franciscan Bodies and Souls: Bonaventure and Bacon on Scripture, Preaching, and the Cura Corporis / Cura Animae Timothy J. Johnson ...73 Polemical Preaching at the University of Paris: Bonaventure's Use of Paul as a Forerunner of Francis C. Colt Anderson ...91 Haec Visio Rapit: Mystic Love and the Erotic in Bonaventure's Sunday Sermons Nicholas W. Youmans ...115 Matthew of Aquasparta's Sermons on Theology Joshua C. Benson... 145 Poverty, History, and Liturgy in a Sermon Work of Bertrand de la Tour Patrick Nold... 175 SECTION THREE: PERCEPTIONS OF HOLINESS IN PREACHING Gracious Women Seeking Glory: Clare of Assisi and Elisabeth of Hungary in Franciscan Sermons Alison More ...209 Preaching on St. Francis in Medieval Germany Stephen Mossman ...231 Sermons Preached to the Friars Minor in the Thirteenth Century Michael Robson ...273 SECTION FOUR: MEDIEVAL SOCIETY AND PREACHING Focus on the Family: Bernardino da Siena on the Common Good and the Nefarious Other Amanda D. Quantz ...299 Roberto Caracciolo da Lecce and His Sermons on Muhammad and the Muslims (C. 1480) Steven J. McMichael ...327 Fifteenth-Century Franciscan Preachers in Castile: The Example of Valladolid Francisco Javier Rojo-Alique... 353 SECTION FIVE: THE ART AND CRAFT OF PREACHING Ne Effluat in Multiloquium Et Habeatur Honerosus : The Art of Preaching in the Franciscan Tradition Bert Roest ...383 Preaching by Image: The Counter Facade of the Basilica of St. Francis Jay M. Hammond ...413 The Making of a Legend: The Reliquary of the Tongue and the Representation of St. Anthony of Padua as a Preacher Francesco Lucchini ...451 Contributors ...485 Illustration Section ...491 Index of People and Places ...519 Index of Texts and Themes ...523

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Timothy J. Johnson holds a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University (1990) and is Professor of Religion at Flagler College, in St. Augustine, Florida. He has published widely on Franciscan theology and spirituality, including Bonaventure's Sunday Sermons (Franciscan Institute, 2008).

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