A Mended and Broken Heart: The Life and Love of Francis of Assisi
Francis of Assisi is Catholicism's most popular saint. Tens of millions of spiritual seekers summon his name and example. But the real Francis-both his complicated personality and his complex theology-have been misunderstood for centuries.

In 1228, Pope Gregory IX rushed to canonize St. Francis only two years after his death. Soon thereafter, the Church eliminated significant aspects of his biography from the public record. For Francis's early life was defined by his profligacy; shortly before dying, Francis himself warned his brothers: "Don't be too quick to canonize me. I am perfectly capable of fathering a child."

In A Mended and Broken Heart, journalist Wendy Murray slices through the bowdlerized version of Francis's life promoted within the Catholic tradition and reveals instead a saint who was in every way also a real man. Murray stresses in particular the crucial but completely neglected role that Clare of Assisi played in Francis's life, both pre- and postconversion, and his theology.

A profoundly humane portrait of a misunderstood saint, A Mended and Broken Heart makes a powerful case that St. Francis's life and thought make him a role model for religious seekers of every faith.
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A Mended and Broken Heart: The Life and Love of Francis of Assisi
Francis of Assisi is Catholicism's most popular saint. Tens of millions of spiritual seekers summon his name and example. But the real Francis-both his complicated personality and his complex theology-have been misunderstood for centuries.

In 1228, Pope Gregory IX rushed to canonize St. Francis only two years after his death. Soon thereafter, the Church eliminated significant aspects of his biography from the public record. For Francis's early life was defined by his profligacy; shortly before dying, Francis himself warned his brothers: "Don't be too quick to canonize me. I am perfectly capable of fathering a child."

In A Mended and Broken Heart, journalist Wendy Murray slices through the bowdlerized version of Francis's life promoted within the Catholic tradition and reveals instead a saint who was in every way also a real man. Murray stresses in particular the crucial but completely neglected role that Clare of Assisi played in Francis's life, both pre- and postconversion, and his theology.

A profoundly humane portrait of a misunderstood saint, A Mended and Broken Heart makes a powerful case that St. Francis's life and thought make him a role model for religious seekers of every faith.
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A Mended and Broken Heart: The Life and Love of Francis of Assisi

A Mended and Broken Heart: The Life and Love of Francis of Assisi

by Wendy Murray
A Mended and Broken Heart: The Life and Love of Francis of Assisi

A Mended and Broken Heart: The Life and Love of Francis of Assisi

by Wendy Murray

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Overview

Francis of Assisi is Catholicism's most popular saint. Tens of millions of spiritual seekers summon his name and example. But the real Francis-both his complicated personality and his complex theology-have been misunderstood for centuries.

In 1228, Pope Gregory IX rushed to canonize St. Francis only two years after his death. Soon thereafter, the Church eliminated significant aspects of his biography from the public record. For Francis's early life was defined by his profligacy; shortly before dying, Francis himself warned his brothers: "Don't be too quick to canonize me. I am perfectly capable of fathering a child."

In A Mended and Broken Heart, journalist Wendy Murray slices through the bowdlerized version of Francis's life promoted within the Catholic tradition and reveals instead a saint who was in every way also a real man. Murray stresses in particular the crucial but completely neglected role that Clare of Assisi played in Francis's life, both pre- and postconversion, and his theology.

A profoundly humane portrait of a misunderstood saint, A Mended and Broken Heart makes a powerful case that St. Francis's life and thought make him a role model for religious seekers of every faith.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786725991
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 07/01/2008
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
File size: 1 MB
Age Range: 13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Wendy Murray holds an M.A. in theology from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. She has written numerous books on Christian topics, including The Beliefnet Guide to Evangelical Christianity. Formerly a senior writer for Christianity Today, she has also written extensively for Books & Culture, The Christian Century, and Beliefnet.

She is the Founder of the Assisi Workshops, an organization dedicated to facilitating the ongoing exploration of the life of Saint Francis, the Umbrian tradition of pilgrimage, and the practice of visual and literary arts. An adjunct professor of writing in the communication arts department at Gordon College, she is also the founder of Ecco Qua Press, an independent publishing company.

Table of Contents

Author's Note ix

Preface xi

Chapter 1 Assisi's Son 1

Chapter 2 Partying and War 19

Chapter 3 Dreams and Prayers 29

Chapter 4 Light Breaks 41

Chapter 5 Endings 55

Chapter 6 Beginnings 67

Chapter 7 Reversal 81

Chapter 8 Gentle Fire 89

Chapter 9 The Round Table 99

Chapter 10 The Sultan 109

Chapter 11 Revolt 123

Chapter 12 Perfect Love 133

Chapter 13 Final Assertion 147

Chapter 14 Those He Left Behind 157

Chapter 15 Anyone's Saint 179

Acknowledgments 191

Appendix A Maps 193

Appendix B Source Material 199

Notes 209

Glossary of Terms 237

Selected Bibliography 241

Index 243

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