Spirit and Life Series

Edited by Jean-François Godet-Calogeras and Roberta McKelvie, OSF. All focus is on development of the Forma vitae written by Clare and approved just before her death in 1253 or on her letters to Agnes of Prague.

ISBN 1-57659-192-1
EAN 978-1-57659-192-5
80 pages
Tradepaper
2004

$12.95

The Care of Souls and the Rhetoric of Moral Theology in Bonaventure and Thomas
edited by Mark Jordan

The fourth annual series of Bonaventure Lectures (1990) given at St. Bonaventure University addresses the unique teaching technique of St. Bonaventure from the perspective of modern hermeneutics.

ISBN 1-57659-034-8
EAN 978-1-57659-034-8
80 pages
Tradepaper
1993

$9.95

This volume contains presentations by Michael F. Cusato, Michael D. Calabria, Robert Lentz, Irfan A. Omar and Madge Karecki originally given at the 7th Franciscan Forum held at Colorado Springs, June 2007.

ISBN 1-57659-151-4
EAN 978-1-57659-151-2
154 pages
Tradepaper
2008

$19.95

Dying, As A Franciscan
The preparation for the transitus to eternal life by Francis and Clare is well documented in the literature and the art of the lives of both. The Ninth National Franciscan Forum addressed the questions: Is there a particularly Franciscan manner of approaching our passage to the Lord and of helping others do the same? Are there particular elements within the Franciscan tradition – stories, symbols and rituals – on which we can all draw to help us and others whom we accompany in this ultimate pilgrimage of the human journey? The presentations at this conference by Michael Cusato, OFM, Thomas Nairn, OFM, Mary Petrosky, FMM, Daniel Sumasy, OFM, Thomas Lynch and Kathleen McCarron, OSF, addressed those questions and provides perspectives on death and dying with a specifically Franciscan interpretation.

ISBN 1-57659-221-9
EAN 978-1-57659-221-2
Tradepaper
2011

edited by Thomas A. Shannon and Mary Beth Ingham, CSJ

The four papers in this volume were presented at a symposium celebrating the anticipated beatification of John Duns Scotus, summer 1992. They address Scotus’s perspective on The Nature of the Human Person, Free Will, and Decision-making in the private and public spheres.

ISBN 1-57659-039-9
EAN 978-1-57659-039-3
144 pages
Tradepaper
1992

$9.95

The Franciscan Charism in Higher Education
edited by Roberta A. McKelvie, OSF

This volume addresses the contribution of Franciscan ideals to the institutions of higher learning. The contributors are all experienced in the field of education and present a variety of topics appropriate to value formation in that venue.

ISBN 1-57659-036-4
EAN 978-1-57659-036-2
156 pages
Tradepaper
1992

$9.95

Franciscan Leadership in Ministry: Foundations in History, Theology, and Spirituality edited by Anthony Carrozzo, OFM, Vincent Cushing, OFM, and Kenneth Himes, OFM

A collection of essays originally presented in March, 1993, at a seminar in Denver, sponsored by the Holy Name Province of the Friars Minor.

ISBN 1-57659-132-8
EAN 978-1-57659-132-1
245 pages
Tradepaper
1997

$9.95

Franciscan Studies: The Difference Women Are Making
A collection of talks presented at Washington Theological Union, May 29-31, 1998. Contributors include Maria Calisi; Margaret Carney, OSF.; Ilia Delio, OSF; Paul LaChance, OFM.; Roberta McKelvie, OSF.; Dominic Monti, OFM; Elise Saggau, OSF; Adele Thibaudeau, OSF; and Gabriele Ühlein, OSF.

ISBN 1-57659-164-6
EAN 978-1-57659-164-2
132 pages
Tradepaper
1999

$9.95

This book is a tribute to Ingrid J. Peterson, OSF, for her academic and scholarly contributions to the study of Clare of Assisi and the women of the Franciscan movement. Divided into four sections, each looks at a particular emphasis of Ingrid's study and scholarship.

The first section introduces us to Ingrid and contains the medal citation from the Franciscan Institute along with contributions from Ramona Miller and Margaret Carney.


The second section takes us into the heart of the Franciscan women with essays by Felicity Dorsett, Jean-Francois Godet-Calogeras, Beth Lynn, and Pacelli Millane.



The third section begins with three essays on Angela of Foligno from Diane Tomkinson, Joy Schroeder and Darleen Pryds. Essays from Alison More, Margaret Klotz, Paul Lachance, and Regis Armstrong on topics ranging from Margaret of Cortona to James of Milan to medieval spirituality complete section three.


The last section is Ingrid's summation of what she leaves for us to do.

ISBN 1-57659-312-6
EAN 978-1-57659-312-7
288 Pages
Tradepaper
2012

Edited by Daniel Dwyer, OFM, and Hugh Hines, OFM. From the time of Francis’s meeting with the Sultan, a tradition of dialogue between the Moslem and Christian traditions, as epitomized in the Franciscan movement, has endured. This volume offers a set of essays that deal with the relationship between Islam and Franciscanism as experienced in the past and as it is presently being addressed.

ISBN 1-57659-169-7
EAN 978-1-57659-169-7
148 pages
Tradepaper
2000

$9.95

Presentations from the 8th Franciscan Forum (2008), held in Colorado Springs, with contributions from Jan Hoeberichts, Michael Calabria, OFM, F. Betul Cavdar, Paul Lachance, OFM, and Robert Lentz, OFM. This is a companion volume to Daring to Embrace the Other.

ISBN 1-57659-157-3
EAN 978-1-57659-157-4
119 pages
Tradepaper
2009

Mission in the Franciscan Tradition edited by Anselm Moons, OFM, and Flavian Walsh, OFM.

Collected essays reflect upon the contemporary value of the concrete missionary method of Francis and his followers.

ISBN 1-57659-038-0
EAN 978-1-57659-038-6
246 pages
Tradepaper
1996

$9.95

Refounding in the Franciscan Tradition edited by Anthony Carrozzo, OFM

These essays describe one Franciscan province’s experience of a refounding process and how it grappled with its dreams, visions and plans in a complex and changing society.

ISBN 1-57659-037-2
EAN 978-1-57659-037-9
135 pages
Tradepaper
1994

$9.95

This volume makes available the results of a unique conference held at the Franciscan Institute in April 2009 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Order of Friars Minor through the confirmation of the propositum vitae of the early friars by Pope Innocent III on April 16, 1209. This conference brought together for a brief but intense period of time two groups of people who do not often dialogue with each other: scholars of the Rule and practitioners of the Rule–those who study the Rule in an academic manner and those given the responsibility by their provinces of teaching and modeling the practice of the Rule in daily life. To that end, this volume presents six scholarly essays and nine interventions offered by friars from nine different areas of the globe who shared the challenges of living the Rule in diverse cultural, national and religious contexts.

ISBN 1-57659-212-X
EAN 978-1-57659-212-0
173 pages
Tradepaper
2010

edited by Michael F. Cusato, OFM, Keith Warner, OFM, and Elise Saggau, OSF.

As thirteenth-century urban populations increased, the friars, entrusted by the Church with the ministry of preaching, naturally needed to go where the people were. At the same time they needed to honor their way of life, which required them to live prayerfully in fraternities, yet not settle down permanently in stable religious houses after the monastic model.

ISBN 1-57659-171-9
EAN 978-1-57659-171-0
160 pages
Tradepaper
2000

$9.95

With affection, gratitude and admiration, the faculty of the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley, California, created and dedicated this book of essays to their mentor and colleague, Kenan B. Osborne, OFM. The essays - written by some of the finest scholars in the Franciscan world today – focus on an array of topics including ecclesiology, Christology, anthropology and the sacraments. With contributions from William J Short, OFM, Allan Wolter, OFM (deceased), Zachary Hayes, OFM, Regis Duffy, OFM (deceased), Michael Guinan, OFM, Johannes Freyer, OFM, Antonie Vos and Mary Beth Ingham, CSJ, this book is a testament to Fr. Osborne’s academic life, his plumbing of the Franciscan theological tradition for new insights and his wide breadth of learning and interests.