Finishing up Francis
Francis's meeting with this Muslim sultan was a mutually respectful discussion of religion and spirituality.
Who is al-Malik al-Kamil?
Though Francis and Clare both understood her to be a part of the Franciscan movement, this prominent church official consistently neglected Clare's Franciscan origins.
Who is Cardinal Hugolino (Pope Gregory IX)?
When a dispute broke out between the mayor of Assisi and the bishop of Assisi, Francis added a verse to this piece of writing.
What is the Canticle of Creatures?
Bonaventure studied these two subjects at the University of Paris.
What are philosophy and theology?
Unlike a market economy, the measure of value in this sort of economy comes from relationships of reciprocity and obligation.
What is a gift economy?
While most medieval accounts report martyrdom as Francis's motivation for traveling to Egypt during the Fifth Crusade, Michael Cusato argues that Francis in fact wanted to preach this.
What is penance?
What is sight?
As Francis approached this major event in his life, he added the following words to the Canticle of Creatures:
Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister Bodily Death,
from whom no one living can escape.
What is his death?
Bonaventure gives this name to the truest form of knowing that unites intellect and love.
What is sapientia (wisdom)?
Because this class of people are most vulnerable to the harmful effects of climate change, Pope Francis suggests that their well-being can be a rubric for environmental justice.
Who are the poor?
Around Christmastime in 1223, Francis staged this as a way of depicting God's incarnation into the world in a situation of utter poverty.
What is a living nativity?
In this document, Clare writes a number of "loopholes" enabling her community to retain its autonomy: for example, accepting a rule of enclosure, but granting the community members permission to leave when they have a good reason to do so.
What is the Rule of St. Clare?
Pope Francis takes his title for this document from Francis of Assisi's Canticle of Creatures.
What is Laudato si'?
The image of an artist at work helps Bonaventure illustrate this idea: the process of producing likeness from an original model.
What is exemplarism?
What is an external cost / market externality?
While in prayer on Mount La Verna in 1224, Francis experiences a mystical vision of the crucified Christ enfolded in the wings of this kind of angel.
What is a seraph?
The fact that the poor are denied access to the goods of creation, intended by God for all, is most clearly a violation of this important idea in Franciscan theology and Catholic social thought.
What is the universal destination of goods?
Theologically understood, creation is God's free decision to give this to that which is not God.
What is the gift of existence?
What is 1257?
While he acknowledges that technology can offer benefits to human beings and the natural world, Pope Francis is wary of how this obstacle to integral ecology can limit our ability to perceive our interconnectedness with nature.
What is the technocratic paradigm?
It was because of this trend within the Franciscan order, as more friars wanted to make the order look more like a traditional religious order, that Francis resigned from his role as minister general.
What is clericalization?
Catholic social thought affirms this idea, which says that the poor and vulnerable must be a special focus of concern in order to ensure the flourishing of each individual.
What is the preferential option for the poor?
The joyful and loving attentiveness that Francis of Assisi expresses for all of creation in his Canticle of Creatures is most directly an expression of this level of integral ecology.
What is a way of seeing?
The spontaneous desire to share a good song with a friend is an example of this characteristic of goodness.
What is its self-expressiveness (self-sharing, self-communicating)?
One serious obstacle to integral ecology is this belief that human beings are created apart from, and thus exist independently of, the rest of creation.
What is anthropocentrism?