New Titles

Mirroring One Another, Reflecting the Divine: the Franciscan-Muslim Journey Into God. Presentations from the 8th Franciscan Forum (2008), held in Colorado Springs.

1-57659-157-3            $18.00

In the Name of Francis by Grado Merlo

Translated from the Italian by Raphael Bonanno, O.F.M., Edited by Robert J. Karris, O.F.M.

A most fascinating and intriguing aspect of Franciscan history is the constant, life-giving examination the friars made of their past, so rich with creativity and intellectual effort, but also so full of human suffering and unremitting conflict.

1-57659-155-7          $ 60.00

Trinitarian Perspectives in the Franciscan Theological Tradition by Maria Calisi.   

The purpose of this volume is to present distinctly Franciscan perspectives on the doctrine of the Trinity in the writings of Bonaventure and Francis, and to demonstrate what this tradition has to offer to the Christian Church. Number 5 in the Franciscan Heritage Series.

1-57659-204-9         $ 5.00

Moral Action in a Complex World: Franciscan Perspectives 

Papers presented at the Washington Theological Union Symposium, May 2008. Featured presenters include Brian Johnstone, Thomas Shannon, Katherine Getek, Thomas Nairn and Mary Beth Ingham.

1-57659-154-9          $ 14.00

Franciscan Wealth by Giacomo Todeschini

Translated by Donatella Melucci. Originally published in Italian in 2004, Todeschini's studies highlight the relationship between the development of the Franciscan movement and medieval economic thinking and practice. While not the "first economists," the early Franciscans approached the marketplace out of their rigorous Christian religiosity and showed clearly the necessary connection between morality and business.

1-57659-153-0  $ 30.00

Francis of Assisi in the Sources and Writings

By Roberto Rusconi, translation by Nancy Celaschi, O.S.F.   

The objective of this work is to give a great number of readers the tools to gain a better understanding of the man from Assisi, the son of Pietro di Bernardone, who became Brother Francis, who the Church of Rome has recognized as a saint.

It contains a biographical sketch in which the story of Francis's life was presented as succinctly as possible. Following this is a collection of texts (writings, documents, hagiographical legends) whose purpose is to lead the reader back to the sources that serve as a basis for a historical reconstruction: these sources are reproduced in their most recent translation.

In order to help the reader become even more informed, at the end of each section there is a series of specific titles that will help them to delve deeper into the individual topics, and at the end of the work there is a general bibliography.

ISBN:  1-57659-152-2   $20.00

The Third Order Regular Rule:  A Source Book

Edited by Margaret Carney, O.S.F., Jean François Godet-Calogeras, and Suzanne M. Kush, C.S.S.F.

The work that produced the approved text for the Rule and Life of the Brothers and Sisters of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis in 1982 has several sources. The energy and enlightenment that gave rise to this first international collaboration in TOR history was fed by multiple streams and the most important are enumerated here. -- $45.00

Works of St. Bonaventure

The Sunday Sermons of St. Bonaventure.  

Edited by Timothy J. Johnson.

The twelfth volume in the Bonavnture Texts in Translation Series, this unquestionably authentic work of Bonaventure provides the careful reader with rich meditation through the liturgical year as well as new insights into the spirtual and apostolic formation of Bonaventure's Franciscan confreres. With Introduction and Notes, this new translation of Bonaventure's work by Timothy J. Johnson shines a new light on one of the great doctors of the Church.

ISBN:  1-57659-145-X       $50.

 Disputed Questions on Evangelical Perfection.  

Translated by Thomas Reist, O.F.M., and Robert J. Karris, O.F.M.

Just off the press, this volume, the thirteenth in the series, is newly translated with notes and introduction by Robert J. Karris, O.F.M. English readers will now be able to place Bonaventure's famous defense of papal authority in its proper contxt. This important translation, with Karris' expanded footnotes and presentation of the adversary, William of Saint-Amour, will be of interest to medievalists, historians of ecclesiology, theologians, practitioners of the vows, and anyone committed to a lively and faithful revitalization of Church Life.

ISBN:  1-57659-146-8           $45.00

Collations on the seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Translated by Zachary Hayes, O.F.M.

The first English translation of St. Bonaventure's Collationes de septem donis Spiritus Sancti to appear in print, this fourteenth volums in the series is the crowning achievement of Zachary Hayes, a preeminent commentator on Bonaventure's thought for four decades.

ISBN 1-57659-147-5        $40.00

Other New Titles

Franciscan Evangelization: Striving to Preach the Gospel.

 Edited by Elise Saggau, O.S.F.

Washington Theological Union Symposium papers 2007.  This volume contains presentations by such eminent scholars as Dominic Monti, C. Colt Anderson, Darleen Pryds and Joseph Chinnici.

ISBN:  1-57659-148-4         $ 14.00

Daring to Embrace the Other: Franciscans and Muslims in Dialogue. 

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

ISBN:  1-57659-151-4           $ 18.00

John Duns Scotus: The Examined Report of the Paris Lecture, Volume 2.

This volume complete the project of presenting for the first time, both in Latin and in English translation, the work known to scholars as Reportatio 1-A. The seminal and groundbreakking scholarship of Allan B. Wolter, O.F.M., is brought to fruition by Oleg B. Bychkov.

ISBN:  1-57659-150-6      $99.00

On the Horizon:

Poverty and Prosperity: Franciscansand the Use of Money, Washington Theological Union Symposium Papers 2009. At Press -- Available January 2010.

The Daily Labor of the Early Franciscans by David Flood, O.F.M.

Essays on the Early Franciscan Sources, Volume 1, edited by Michael W. Blastic, O.F.M.; Jay Hammond and Wayne Hellmann, O.F.M. Conv.  This series of books will contain essays on each of the early Franciscan writings, including the writings of Francis and Clare, hagiographical texts from the 13th and 14th centuries, commentaries on the Rule, liturgical texts, as well as pertinent papal documents.

Commentaries on the Rule of the Friars Minor (13th - 14th Centuries), edited by Jean François Godet-Calogeras.

St. Bonaventure's Defense of the Mendicants. Translation, Introduction and Notes by Robert J. Karris, O.F.M. (January 2010)

Learning and Holiness: Colette of Corbi (1381-1447), by Elisabeth Lopez, Translated by Joanna Waller.