Franciscan Studies

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    The Wayfarer's End: Bonaventure and Aquinas on Divine Rewards in Scripture and Sacred Doctrine by Shawn M. Colberg (review).John R. Kern - 2025 - Franciscan Studies 82 (1):298-302.
    The relationship between divine and human action in salvation has long been a central issue in Christian theology. What role, if any, does human action play in the process that is salvation by grace? Such a question can invite any number of responses depending on the problematic that undergirds it. One problematic that has historically been at the forefront of polemical disputes between Protestants and Catholics is whether and how human action might 'merit' eternal life. In a move that is (...)
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  2. Francis of Assisi: His Life, Vision and Companions by Michael F. Cusato (review).Ian Christopher Levy - 2025 - Franciscan Studies 82 (1):291-295.
    Michael Cusato has made an outstanding contribution to Franciscan studies specifically and medieval studies more broadly with his deeply learned, even provocative, analysis of Francis of Assisi and the original movement that coalesced around this charismatic and challenging saint. The designation 'challenging' (or something stronger) is applicable, but not in the typically romantic way that centuries of accumulated tradition have chosen to honor Il Poverello. The reader looking for that much-beloved 'little poor man' who rejoiced in poverty and simplicity, and (...)
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  3. Interpretare Francesco: I frati, i papi e i commenti alla Regola minoritica (secc. XIII–XVI) by Francesco Carta (review).Andrea Mancini - 2025 - Franciscan Studies 82 (1):295-298.
    All religious orders in the Middle Ages supported the composition of commentaries among their learned members to expound the original meaning of the text on which they made their religious profession. With this operation, monastic and mendicant orders adapted their rule to their contemporary needs. Although one of the latest medieval religious rules, the Rule of Francis of Assisi stimulated several hermeneutics via these commentaries with no equal among Western Christian religious orders. Despite these developments, scholarship has lacked a study (...)
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