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Saint Margaret of Cortona is the light of the Third Order of Francis. Such is 

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the theme of the most extensive biography of any Franciscan Tertiary in the 

John Duns Scotus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 

Philosophical Writings of John Duns Scotus . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 

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Middle Ages. Margaret’s extraordinary career brings the historian closer to 

the early development of the Franciscans and the Order of Penance; it tells 

us much about how women saints were described, and about how civic 

cults of saints emerged. Another window, although a smaller one, opens 

to the tensions between the Franciscan Community and the Spiritual 

Franciscans before the split prior to Pope John XXII. Indeed it could be 

Peter of John Olivi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 

Medieval Texts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 

Francis and the Early Franciscan Movement. . . . . . . . . . . . .27 

Clare and the Poor Sisters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 

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said that we know more about Margaret of Cortona than about any woman 

of thirteenth-century Italy, with the exception of Clare of Assisi and Clare 

of Montefalco. 

This edition is translated from the critical Latin edition by Fortunato 

Franciscan History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 

Franciscan Studies & Faith Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 

Spirit and Life Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 

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Iozzelli, O.F.M. The Life and Miracles of Saint Margaret of Cortona by Fra 

Giunta Bevegnati. The original translation by Thomas Renna has been 

edited by Shannon Larson. 

Franciscan Heritage Series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 

THOMAS RENNA, PHD, Professor of History at Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan, teaches history of 

Washington Theological Union Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 

Middle Ages, Ancient Rome, Renaissance France, ancient and modern Middle East. He has an undergraduate 

St. Bonaventure University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 

degree in History from the University of Scranton, a masters of Medieval History from the University of Nebraska 

Journals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40 

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and a PhD in Medieval History from Brown University. 

Renna has published three books, including Jerusalem in Medieval Thought 400-1300 (Mellen Pr 2002), 120 

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Founded in 1939, the Franciscan Institute stands as 

the preeminent center in North America of teaching, 

research, and publication on the history, spirituality 

and intellectual life of the Franciscan movement. Most 

noteworthy among the Franciscan Institute’s publica- 

journal articles on medieval thought: political theory, church-state conflicts, Franciscan, Cistercian, Benedictine, 

biblical exegesis, hagiography, manuscript illumination, Petrarch, Augustine. He also has 160 paper presentations 

at conferences in the US, Canada, Europe, and Middle East. 

Renna has received numerous awards and fellowships for scholarship and teaching. 

For this translation of the Life of St. Margaret, Renna spent four summers in Cortona examining the manuscripts 

of the Vita, and sources in Cortona and Rome libraries and archives. Renna interviewed Italian scholars, the parish 

priest of Cortona, archivists, and numerous public figures in Cortona, the church of St Margaret, and Rome. He 

tions are series devoted to texts, philosophy, theology 

wishes to thank all these very helpful people and especially Fortunato Iozzelli, OFM, the editor of the modern 

and spirituality. It also publishes Franciscan Studies, an 

critical edition of the Vita, who encouraged him to translate this invaluable work of Franciscan history. Renna is 

annual scholarly review containing articles in the major 

especially grateful to Sr. Margaret Carney, who originally suggested in 1995 that he introduce her counterpart in 

languages of Western Europe on Franciscan philosophi- 

Cortona to English speakers. Renna is currently writing a book on papal-imperial political theory during the early 

cal and theological thought and history and The Cord, a 

popular quarterly review of Franciscan spirituality. 

Avignon Papacy. 

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SHANNON LARSON has a Bachelor’s degree from Northwestern College where she studied Egyptian, Jewish, 

and Church history, and biblical studies. She has a Master’s degree in Medieval History from Marquette University. 

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Her Bright Merits: Essays in Honor of Ingrid J. Peterson, OSF 

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Edited by Mary Walsh Meany, PhD and Felicity Dorsett, OSF 

Ingrid Peterson, OSF, is distinguished in the field of Franciscan studies 

by her work on Clare of Assisi and the women of the early Franciscan 

movement. This book, a collection of essays on those topics by 

several of the best scholars in the field, is offered in tribute to Peterson 

and her academic and scholarly contributions to the study of Clare 

and the women of the early movement. 

Divided into four parts, part one introduces Peterson, part two takes 

us into the heart of studies of Franciscan women, part three focuses on 

how Peterson came to the study of medieval history and the volume 

concludes with Peterson’s own summation of what she leaves for us to 

do in this field. 

Contributors to this collection are: 

Regis Armstrong 

Margaret Carney 

Felicity Dorsett 

Jean-François Godet-Calogeras 

Pacelli Millane 

Ramona Miller 

Darleen Pryds 

Joy Schroeder 

Diane Tomkinson 

Paul Lachance 

Margaret Klotz 

Beth Lynn 

Mary Meany 

Alison More 

INgRID J. PETERSON, OSF, PHD, is a Third Order Franciscan sister from Rochester, Minnesota. She has an 

undergraduate degree from the College of Saint Teresa in Elementary Education; an M.A. in public address from 

the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and a Ph.D. in English, with a concentration in Medieval Renaissance 

and Romance Literature from the University of Iowa. 

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The Opera Theologica of John Duns Scotus 

The Quadruple Congress on John Duns Scotus, part 2 

Archa Verbi Subsidia, vol. 4 

edited by Richard Cross 

On 8 November 1308, the great Franciscan scholastic thinker, John Duns 

Scotus, died and was buried in the friars’ convent in Cologne. Building 

upon the intellectual heritage of his Franciscan predecessors in Paris, 

Alexander of Hales and Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, Scotus extended 

this peculiarly Franciscan approach to the philosophical and theological 

traditions of western Christianity in new and bold directions with 

unique emphases and implications. These ramifications became the 

foundation for an important alternate current of philosophical thought 

known through history as Scotism. On the occasion of the 700th anniversary 

of the death of John Duns Scotus, international scholars from 

around the world gathered together to celebrate in a comprehensive 

manner the life, work and intellectual legacy of the Subtle Doctor. This 

gathering took on the form of a Quadruple Congress, comprising four 

conferences, treating four different themes, associated with the intellectual 

journey and legacy of Scotus, namely Oxford, Cologne-Bonn, Strasbourg and the Franciscan Institute at St. 

Bonaventure University, New York. The corresponding four volumes represent the current state of international 

Scotus scholarship and will remain an invaluable tool for years to come. 

Part 2, offering investigations into the theology of John Duns Scotus, contains contributions by 

Robert Andrews 

Oleg Bychkov 

William J. Courtenay 

Richard Cross 

William A. Frank 

Tobias Hofmann 

Ludger Honnefelder 

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Scotism through the Centuries 

The Quadruple Congress on John Duns Scotus, part 4 

Archa Verbi Subsidia, volume 6 

edited by Mechtild Dreyer, Edouard Mehl and Matthias Vollet 

This volume brings together essays that deal with the reception of 

the philosophy and theology of John Duns Scotus (1265/66-1308) 

through the centuries. Stretched as an arc that begins with his contemporaries 

and his immediate students in the 14th Century and ending 

in the most current analysis of his Philosophy. Most of the essays 

were presented at the fourth Quadruple Congress at the University 

of Strasbourg, March 2009, entitled La postérité de Duns Scot 13th 

to 21st. The aim of the conference was to demonstrate with examples 

how theologians and philosophers over the centuries have examined 

the thought of Scotus and its historical impact. 

On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the death of John Duns 

Scotus, international scholars from around the world gathered together 

to celebrate in a comprehensive manner the life, work and intellectual 

legacy of the Subtle Doctor. This gathering took on the form of 

a Quadruple Congress, comprising four conferences, treating four different themes, associated with the intellectual 

journey and legacy of Scotus, namely Oxford, Cologne-Bonn, Strasbourg and the Franciscan Institute at St. 

Bonaventure University, New York. The corresponding four volumes represent the current state of international 

Scotus scholarship and will remain an invaluable tool for years to come. 

Part 4, contains contributions by 

Luca Parisoli Isavel Iribarren 

Christian Trottmann Rolf Schonberger 

Stephen F. Brown Vokler Leppin 

Francesco Marrone Edouard Mehl 

Jean-Luc Solere Hubertus Busche 

Yves-Jean Harder Antonie Vos 

Martina Roesner Andreas J. Beck 

Francois Loiret Cyrille Michon 

Oliver Boulnois Claude Coulot, Franck Storne 

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Publication Date: November 2012 

St. Bonaventure University: A History 

Throughout St. Bonaventure’s history, its mission has been paramount: 

to hand on a tradition that was rooted deeply in both Christian 

faith and modern scientific knowledge. The seed of St. Bonaventure 

University was sown by the Devereux family, the Franciscan friars, and 

lay men who used their teaching skills to enlighten and encourage all 

who came to them for an education. In his history of the university, 

Dr. Eckert gives ample evidence of the obstacles encountered in its 

150+ year existence, as well as countless examples of personal and 

communal faith that enabled the friars and their lay collaborators to 

overcome the roadblocks, both internal and external. 

EDWARD K. ECKERT, PHD, is a 1965 graduate of St. Bonaventure 

University. In 1971, Dr. Eckert returned to the university and spent 

the next 34 years in both teaching and administrative positions. Dr. 

Eckert is retired and lives in Ocean City, Maryland with his wife of 

more than 45 years, Linda. 



Beyond the Text 

Franciscan Art 

and the Construction of Religion 

Edited by 

Xavier Seubert and Oleg Bychkov 

Beyond the Text: Franciscan Art and Construction of Religion 

edited by Xavier Seubert, OFM and Oleg Bychkov, PhD 

A pioneering study of the art of the Franciscan order that shows how 

Franciscan theological, liturgical, pastoral and missionary strategies were 

formulated and implemented visually, not by words but by images, by using 

contextualization and introducing gender and culture specific visual 

traits. The essays in this volume probe the art and visual culture of the 

early Franciscan movement to reveal insights and nuances of the life and 

power of this revolutionary phase of the Catholic religion. These essays 

explore the historical, social, theological and philosophical perspectives 

of Franciscan art. 


William Barcham Oleg Bychkov 

William Cook Theresa Flanigan 

David Flood Holly Flora 

Cristina Cruz Gonzalez David Haack 

Trinita Kennedy Irving Lavin 

Marylyn Lavin Robert Lentz 

Beth Mulvane Lynn Ransom 

Xavier Seubert 

XAvIER JOHN SEubERT, OFM, holds a doctorate in sacramental theology from the University of Freiburg im 

Breisgau in Germany and is a graduate of New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. He was recently appointed 

Professor of Liturgy and Sacramental Theology at Christ the King Seminary in Buffalo, NY and is the Thomas 

Plassmann Distinguished Professor of Art and Theology Emeritus at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, NY. 

He has also taught at The Washington Theological Union and Villanova University. His main interests are the 

relationship between religious symbolism and the artistic process, Franciscan and Byzantine art history and the 

sacraments of Christian Initiation. He has published articles in Worship, Cross Currents, New Theology Review, 

and The Heythrop Journal and is presently working on a book on the sacramentality of art. He is a frequent lecturer 

at The Cloisters of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. 

OLEg byCHKOv, PHD, is a Professor of Theology at St. Bonaventure University. He joined St. Bonaventure 

Theology Department in the Fall of 1999. He holds a PhD from the Center for Medieval Studies, University of 

Toronto (1999). His areas of expertise are classical languages, medieval philosophy and theology, and contemporary 

aesthetics. He has authored and co-edited several books, including Aesthetic Revelation (CUA Press, 2010), 

and published essays and encyclopedia entries on ancient, medieval and contemporary aesthetics. With Allan 

Wolter, OFM, he edited and translated, and Franciscan Institute Publications published, John Duns Scotus’s Examined 

Report of the Paris Lecture (Reportatio I-A) (Volume 1 2004 and Volume 2 2008). 

2012: 240 p.; over 100 illustrations 

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Knowledge for Love: Franciscan Science as the Pursuit of Wisdom 

Franciscan Heritage Series Volume 8 

by Keith Douglass Warner, OFM 

This essay extends the retrieval of the Franciscan intellectual tradition 

into the sciences by presenting the vocation and work of three Franciscan 

scientists. Friar Bartholomew the Englishman taught his fellow Franciscans 

with the best available scientific knowledge to prepare them for preaching 

in foreign lands. Friar Roger Bacon conducted research into the natural 

world to advance scientific knowledge in service of the Church. Friar 

Bernardino de Sahagún investigated the life, worldview and culture of the 

Aztec peoples in New Spain (now Mexico) to interpret these for his fellow 

Franciscans. In the Franciscan tradition, learning about nature helps one 

grow in wisdom, and thus Franciscan science is knowledge for love. This 

essay argues that the retrieval of our Franciscan intellectual tradition could 

and should include the sciences. 

This is the eighth in a series intended to encompass topics which will 

connect the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition with today’s language of our 

Christian Catholic Franciscan way of Gospel Life. Previous volumes have presented an overview of the tradition, 

discussed dimensions of creation and Christian anthropology in Franciscan theology, and illustrated them 

through an iconographic tradition found in the Gospel of John. 

KEITH DOugLASS WARNER, OFM, PHD, is a Franciscan Friar of the St. Barbara Province (California). 

Warner has an MA in Theology (Franciscan School of Theology/Graduate Theological Union), and a PhD in 

Environmental Studies (UC Santa Cruz). His research investigates the emergence of environmental and sustainability 

ethics within scientific and religious institutions, and how these organizations deploy moral discourses 

to foster a more just and sustainable society. He is actively researching the retrieval of the Franciscan 

intellectual tradition, especially in the fields of philosophy of science and environmental ethics. 

2012: 86 p. 

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New titles iN 2012 

30 Days with Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Gospel of Luke 

edited by Robert J. Karris 

Bonaventure has many insights to share not only with members of the Franciscan 

Family, but also with the church at large. From his work on translating 

and annotating St. Bonaventure’s three-volume Commentary on Luke’s Gospel, 

noted Scripture scholar Robert Karris has developed this book of reflections 

for thirty days. Playfully referring to them as “BonaLuke bites,” Karris 

gives preferential treatment to those passages used in the Sunday lectionary 

during Cycle B. 

A user-friendly format begins with the passages from Luke’s Gospel followed 

by Bonaventure’s commentary on one or two verses under consideration. 

Karris’s reflection follows that of Bonaventure and concludes with a prayer. 

Some readers may reverse the process as they are meant as springboards for 

the readers’ own reflections and prayer. 

Today Lukan scholars acknowledge many “Franciscan” themes in Luke’s Gospel. Members of the Franciscan 

Family will enjoy reacquainting themselves with the charism through the lens of Luke’s Gospel. Perhaps preachers 

will find that old interpretations are new again and can sparkle because Bonaventure has singled out the very 

best from tradition to challenge our normal way of interpreting passages familiar through years of liturgical use. 

RObERT J. KARRIS, OFM, THD, is a Franciscan priest of the Sacred Heart Province whose headquarters are 

in St. Louis. He earned an STL from Catholic University of America and a Th.D. from Harvard University in 

New Testament and Early Church History. Fr. Karris is a former professor of New Testament at Catholic Theological 

Union in Chicago and a former Provincial Minister of Sacred Heart Province and General Councilor 

of the Order of Friars Minor. Currently, he is research professor at The Franciscan Institute of St. Bonaventure 

University. He has been widely published and his most recent New Testament books are, John: Stories of the Word 

and Faith and Eating Your Way through Luke’s Gospel. He is a past president of the Catholic Biblical Association 

of America and for the last four years he has preached in over 190 churches in the United States on behalf of the 

poor served by Food for the Poor. He is general editor of the 15-volume Works of St. Bonaventure series published 

by Franciscan Institute Publications. Among other books with Franciscan Institute Publications, Fr. Karris 

has written The Admonitions of St. Francis: Sources and Meanings and has translated and edited several including, 

Defense of the Mendicants (translated by Karris and Jose de Vinck), Disputed Questions on Evangelical Perfection 

(translated by Karris and Thomas Reist, OFM), Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Gospel of John (edited by Karris), 

Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Gospel of Luke (edited by Karris), Bonaventure’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes 

(edited by Karris and Campion Murray, OFM), In the Name of St. Francis: A History of the Friars Minor and 

Franciscanism Until the Early Sixteenth Century (by Grado Giovanni Merlo, translated by Karris and Raphael 

Bonnano, OFM). 

2012: 100 p 

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Spiritual Warfare and Six Other Spiritual Writings of Peter of John Olivi 

translation, introduction and notes by Robert J. Karris, OFM 

While Peter of John Olivi (d. 1298) is generally classified more as a theologian 

and/or philosopher than as a spiritual director, Robert Karris presents 

several short works by Olivi which clearly indicate that he was concerned for 

the spiritual progress of lay people, too. Besides Olivi’s four spiritual writings 

– The Armed Soldier, The Prayer of Thanksgiving, Lessons on Growth in the 

Spiritual Life and Remedies against Spiritual Temptations – Karris adds Olivi’s 

treatise on The Lord’s Prayer, on The Seven Sentiments of Christ Jesus, and an 

abbreviated version of his commentary on Mary’s response to Gabriel in Luke 

1:26-38. 

In addition to the works of Olivi, Karris provides a plethora of footnotes to aid 

the reader, and in an appendix he has translated two interpretive parallels to 

help readers see where Olivi follows traditional lines of thought and where he 

diverges into his own unique treatment. 

For too long the temptation to dismiss Olivi as a Franciscan reformer who ran afoul of the Roman authorities 

after his death has kept his writings in the background of Franciscan scholarship. Now, with this short but penetrating 

introduction to another facet of Peter of John Olivi’s ministry, Karris gives us reason to look again and 

find new treasures in the life of Olivi which can enrich us today. 

RObERT J. KARRIS, OFM, THD, is a Franciscan priest of the Sacred Heart Province whose headquarters are 

in St. Louis. He earned an STL from Catholic University of America and a Th.D. from Harvard University in 

New Testament and Early Church History. Fr. Karris is a former professor of New Testament at Catholic Theological 

Union in Chicago and a former Provincial Minister of Sacred Heart Province and General Councilor 

of the Order of Friars Minor. Currently, he is research professor at The Franciscan Institute of St. Bonaventure 

University. He has been widely published and his most recent New Testament books are, John: Stories of the Word 

and Faith and Eating Your Way through Luke’s Gospel. He is a past president of the Catholic Biblical Association 

of America and for the last four years he has preached in over 190 churches in the United States on behalf of the 

poor served by Food for the Poor. He is general editor of the 15-volume Works of St. Bonaventure series published 

by Franciscan Institute Publications. Among other books with Franciscan Institute Publications, Fr. Karris 

has written The Admonitions of St. Francis: Sources and Meanings and has translated and edited several including, 

Defense of the Mendicants (translated by Karris and Jose de Vinck), Disputed Questions on Evangelical Perfection 

(translated by Karris and Thomas Reist, OFM), Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Gospel of John (edited by Karris), 

Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Gospel of Luke (edited by Karris), Bonaventure’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes 

(edited by Karris and Campion Murray, OFM), In the Name of St. Francis: A History of the Friars Minor and 

Franciscanism Until the Early Sixteenth Century (by Grado Giovanni Merlo, translated by Karris and Raphael 

Bonnano, OFM). 

2012: 120 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-344-8 $19.95 

Publications Date: August 2012 


updated fip classics 

First Encounter With Francis of Assisi 

by Damien Vorreux 

translated by Jean-François Godet-Calogeras 

First Encounter with Francis of Assisi: Damien Vorreux, who died in 1988, 

was a French scholar who began to publish French translations of the 

early Franciscan documents in the 1950s. His deep knowledge of those 

documents and his understanding of Francis were the inspiration for this 

classic presentation of Francis of Assisi. Published in French in 1973 and 

first offered in English by Franciscan Press in 1979, Jean-François Godet- 

Calogeras – who worked with Vorreux – combines the latest scholarship 

and the most current English translations of the Early Documents with 

his own translation in offering this new edition of First Encounter with 

Francis of Assisi. This short text is an excellent introduction to Francis and 

the world in which he lived. 

JEAN-FRANçOIS gODET-CALOgERAS, PHD, is a Franciscan 

scholar internationally known for his publications on the early 

Franciscan documents, in particular the writings of Francis and Clare of 

Assisi, and for his lectures and workshops on early Franciscan history. 

A native of Belgium, Jean-François received his education in classical philology and medieval studies at the 

Catholic University of Louvain. In the early 1980s he facilitated the international work group which elaborated 

the text of the new Rule of the Third Order Regular. He currently serves as a professor at the Franciscan Institute/ 

School of Franciscan Studies, Saint Bonaventure University. He is general editor of the journal, Franciscan 

Studies. Works published by Franciscan Institute Publications by Godet-Calogeras include An Unencumbered 

Heart – A Tribute to Clare of Assisi (2004, with Roberta McKelvie, OSF), and The Third Order Regular Rule: A 

Source Book (2008, with Margaret Carney, OSF, and Suzanne Kush, CSSF). 

2012: 100 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-337-0 $14.95 Release Date: June 2012 

New Edition! Build With Living Stones 

edited by Daria Mitchell, OSF 

Using the work of a commission focused upon updating and contemporizing 

the source material, this new edition of Build with Living Stones 

offers those an indispensable resource guide for Franciscan reflection 

around the themes of life and work. In 14 separate units, Build with 

Living Stones offers Franciscan insight into contemporary issues such as 

the economy, the environment, peace-making and what it means to live 

well in a pluralistic world. This work is an excellent text for groups to 

use as an introduction to Franciscan thought. 

2012: 176 pg 

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Revised, New Second Edition! The Harmony of Goodness — 

Mutuality and Moral Living According to John Duns Scotus 

by Mary Beth Ingham 

Since the first publication of The Harmony of Goodness in 1996, much 

work has appeared in print on Scotus’s theological and philosophical 

vision including the gradual completion of the Vatican edition of Scotus’s 

Ordinatio. Various congresses and international gatherings continue to 

highlight the important significance of this great medieval thinker for the 

new millennium. Drawing upon the work of several significant scholars 

combined with her own deepened conviction that understanding moral 

philosophy and theology must be understood within the broader context 

of Franciscan spirituality including the role of Stoic and monastic 

influences on the medieval Franciscans, Mary Beth Ingham, C.S.J., offers 

this new edition of The Harmony of Goodness. Scotus’s articulation of a 

moral vision to lived harmony and to moral living as a path of beauty is 

offered anew by Ingham in this new edition. 

MARy ELIzAbETH INgHAM, CSJ, PHD, is Professor of Philosophical 

Theology at the Franciscan School of Theology, Graduate Theological 

Union, Berkeley, CA. Ingham previously was Professor of Philosophyand Department Chair at Loyola Marymount 

University, Los Angeles. She earned her Ph.D. from Universite de Fribourg, Switzerland. Her specialties include the 

History of Medieval Philosophy, Franciscan Tradition, John Duns Scotus, Stoicism and its influence on Medieval 

Philosophy, and Franciscan spiritual tradition and its influence on Scotus and others. Ingham has authored several 

texts on Scotus including the best-selling, Scotus for Dunces – an Introduction to the Subtle Doctor. 

2012: 180 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-336-3 $24.95 Release Date: July 2012 

The 

Ethical 

Theory 

of 

John Duns 

Scotus 

New Introduction! The Ethical Theory of John Duns Scotus 

by Thomas A. Shannon, Ph.D. 

Is the thought of John Duns Scotus relevant for the 21st century? Dr. 

Thomas A. Shannon discovers areas of congruence and insight between 

several contemporary issues and the work of the 13th century Franciscan 

in this new edition of his work, The Ethical Theory of John Duns Scotus. 

THOMAS A. SHANNON, PHD, is professor emeritus of religion and 

social ethics in the Department of Humanities and Arts at Worcester 

Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. Professor Shannon 

also holds the Paul McKeever Chair of Moral Theology at St. John’s 

University in Queens, New York. He is the author, co-author or editor 

of more than 35 books and 40 articles in bioethics and Roman Catholic 

social justice. 

2012: 200 p. 

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NEW EDITION 

Thomas A. Shannon

updated fip classics recently released 

New Edition! The Soul In Ascent 

by Timothy J. Johnson, PhD. 

First published by Franciscan Press in 2000, Dr. Timothy J Johnson’s 

The Soul in Ascent: Bonaventure on Poverty, Prayer and Union with God 

has offered a thorough textual study of the importance of prayer in 

Bonaventure’s theology and life. This new edition is updated to include 

Johnson’s most recent work on Bonaventure’s Sunday Sermons sourced from 

his work, The Sunday Sermons of St. Bonaventure – Bonaventure Texts 

in Translation Series. This new edition is a must-read book for anyone 

interested in Franciscan spirituality and theology. 

TIMOTHy J. JOHNSON is Professor of Religion and Humanities 

Department Chair at Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida. A Senior 

Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Johnson holds a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from 

the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He also holds a Licentiate in 

Sacred Theology and a Diploma Litterarum Latinarum from the Pontifical 

Gregorian University, a Bachelor’s in Sacred Theology from Pontifical 

Theological Faculty of St. Bonaventure, Rome, and a B.A. in Theology from 

St. Louis University. Dr. Johnson has taught in Europe and Africa. His primary area of expertise is the history 

of Christian spirituality and theology. Dr. Johnson has published numerous journal articles and books on 

Franciscan topics including Bonaventure – Mystic of God’s Word and The Sunday Sermons of St. Bonaventure. 

2012: 288 p 

Pb 978-1-57659-342-4 $24.95 Release Date: October 2012 

New Introduction! The First Franciscan Woman: Clare of Assisi & Her 

Form of Life 

by Margaret Carney, OSF. 

Clare of Assisi (1193-1253) was the most important woman who emerged 

within the unfolding history of the movement inspired by Francis of Assisi. 

She joined him in his search for a way to incarnate the powerful message of the 

Gospel of Christ in a situation of economic, social and ecclesiastical reformation. 

She has been revered through the centuries as his disciple, friend, and 

co-worker. Carney offers a new introduction in this second edition. 

MARgARET CARNEy, OSF, STD, was the first woman to receive a doctoral 

degree from the Franciscan University in Rome. A native of Pittsburgh, PA, 

she holds a bachelor’s degree from Duquesne University and a master’s degree 

from the Franciscan Institute. Sr. Margaret has taught at the Franciscan 

Institute of Asia in the Philippines, at the Antonianum in Rome, and in 

Canada, Italy, England, Ireland and Japan. She was appointed St. Bonaventure 

University’s twentieth president and first female president in June of 2004. Her publications with Franciscan 

Institute Publications include Franciscan Studies: The Difference Women Are Making (1995, with Elise Saggau, 

OSF) and The Third Order Regular Rule: A Source Book (2008, with Jean Francois Godet-Calogeras and Suzanne 

Kush, CSSF). 

1993: 261 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-343-1 $24.95 Release Date: January 2013 

Studies in Early Franciscan Sources: Writings of Francis 

and Clare of Assisi - 

edited by Michael W. Blastic, OFM, Jay Hammond, PhD and 

Wayne Hellmann, OFM Conv. 

These three volumes provide valuable and critical assistance to 

those interested in a deeper understanding of the writings of the 

Early Documents. The authors, scholars interested in and committed 

to the Franciscan tradition, have brought contemporary research 

together, applied it to each of the specific texts, and offered 

their own perspective. First, the essays define the status questionis 

by informing the reader about the state of current research on 

each of the texts considered. Second, the essays are intended to 

introduce the reader to these texts within the dimensions of their 

multilayered contextual-historical framework. The hope of those 

involved in producing these studies is to help others learn how to 

read, interpret, and apply these newly translated texts to enrich 

the historical understanding, theological vision, and practical living 

out of the Gospel message. 

Volume 1 

The Writings of Francis of Assisi: Letters 

and Prayers features the scholarly work of 

Luigi Pellegrini, Jean- François Godet-Calogeras, 

Michael W. Blastic, Michael F. Cusato, 

Jay M. Hammond, and Laurent Gallant. 

2011: 336 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-230-4 $29.95 

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Volume 2 

The Writings of Francis of Assisi: Rules, 

Testament and Admonitions contains essays 

by William J. Short, Michael W. Blastic, Jay 

M. Hammond and J.A. Wayne Hellmann. 

2011: 336 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-232-8 $29.95 

Hc 978-1-57659-294-6 $34.95 

Volume 3 

The Writings of Clare of Assisi presents the 

latest scholarship by Ingrid Peterson, Lezlie 

Knox, Michael W. Blastic and Jean-François 

Godet-Calogeras. 

2011: 144p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-233-5 $19.95 

Hc 978-1-57659-295-3 $24.95 

Peter of John Olivi: Commentary on the 

Gospel of Mark 

translation and introduction by Robert J. 

Karris, OFM 

Peter of John Olivi introduces his commentary 

on Mark by explaining the brevity of his 

treatment. His Commentaries on Matthew 

and John lie behind him. In the light of that 

work, he proposes, we can read Mark easily. 

And so he divides and summarizes Mark, 

pausing only at passages particular to Mark’s account. 

August 2011: 112 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-234-2 $19.95 

Dying, As A Franciscan 

Spirit and Life 

Volume 15 

Many of us within the Franciscan Family of the 

21st Century – friars, sisters, seculars and all 

those associated in any way with the Poverello 

of Assisi – find ourselves surrounded by those 

within our own communities and families who 

are in need of similar accompaniment and 

companionship as they walk the road toward the 

fullness of life. And each one of us, one day, will walk the same path 

ourselves. 

2011 118 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-221-2 $19.95 

Words Made Flesh: Essays Honoring Kenan B. 

Osborne, OFM 

Spirit and Life 

Volume 16 

Written by some of the finest Franciscan scholars 

in the world today – Joseph Chinnici, Bishop 

John Cummins, William J. Short, †Allan B. 

Wolter, Zachary Hayes, †Regis A. Duffy, Michael 

D. Guinan, Johannes B. Freyer, Antonie Vos 

and Mary Beth Ingham – these scholars and 

their different approaches to sacraments, ecclesiology, Christology, and 

anthropology testify to Kenan Osborne’s academic life, his plumbing of 

theological tradition for new insights, and his wide breadth of learning 

and interests. 

2011: 208 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-224-3 $19.95 

Colette of Corbie (1381-1447): Learning and 

Holiness 

by Elisabeth Lopez, translated by Joanna Waller 

Released for the first time in English. Lopez’s 

book, originally published in French in 1994, 

is a serious study of Colette and her reform 

movement of the Poor Clare Sisters. Colette of 

Corbie is one of the few texts written depicting 

the historical context and spiritual depth of the 

reform which offered women of the Second 

Order the opportunity to return to the observance of the Rule of St. 

Clare. 

2010: 640 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-217-5 $50.00 

Ebook 978-1-57659-219-9 $24.95 


Works of st. bonaventure 

The Franciscan Institute is exceptionally proud to present the 

Works of St. Bonaventure series. This series provides annotated 

translations from the Latin originals of the works of St. Bonaventure 

for students and seekers who wish to steep themselves in the rich 

theological vision of this medieval giant. Begun in 1996 and now 

totaling 15 volumes with several volumes in development, this is 

the definitive series for the best and most current English-language 

translations of Bonaventure’s work. Works of St. Bonaventure, 

Robert J. Karris, OFM, general editor. 

Volume I 

On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology (De 

Reductione Artium ad Theologiam) 

reprinted with a revised translation, 

introduction and commentary by Zachary 

Hayes, OFM 

In his treatise, De Reductione Artium ad 

Theologiam, a work of remarkable brevity and 

originality of expression, St. Bonaventure deals 

with the relation of the finite to the infinite, of the natural to the 

supernatural in a way which well establishes his preeminence as 

a mystic, a philosopher, and a theologian. This translation and 

commentary brings to the modern day reader an appreciation of 

the return of all created things to God. 

1996: 70 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-043-0 $14.95 

Volume II 

Itinerarium Mentis in Deum (Journey of the 

Soul Into God) 

(†)Philotheus Boehner, OFM and Zachary 

Hayes, OFM 

This new translation of the Itinerarium signals 

a milestone in Bonaventurian scholarship in 

North America. Based on the famed 1956 

Boehner edition, this volume presents the text 

with a new inclusive-language translation, authoritative notes by 

Boehner with a new translation of their Latin content, plus the 

Latin text of the critical edition interfaced with the English text. 

2002: 225 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-044-7 $17.00 

Hc 978-1-57659-185-7 $25.00 

Volume III 

Saint Bonaventure’s Disputed Questions on the 

Mystery of the Trinity 

introduction and translation by Zachary Hayes, OFM 

This translation makes Bonaventure’s study on 

the Trinity available in English for the first time. 

A leading Bonaventure scholar and theologian, 

Zachary Hayes, OFM, explicates the Trinitarian 

thought of the Seraphic Doctor and situates these Quaestiones disputatae 

in the history of theology. 

1979: 273 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-045-4 $15.00 

Volume IV 

St. Bonaventure’s Disputed Questions on the 

Knowledge of Christ 

Zachary Hayes, OFM 

The first English translation of this work. Bonaventure’s 

study is done in the medieval scholastic 

style of disputed questions and shows how 

he, as scholar, was at the center of what Christianity 

is about. 

1992: 202 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-046-1 $15.00 

Volume V 

St. Bonaventure’s 

Writings Concerning the Franciscan Order 

Dominic V. Monti, OFM 

After introducing the reader to Bonaventure as 

General Minister of the Franciscan Order, this 

volume presents twenty documents and helpful 

introductions to their importance. 1994: 281 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-047-8 $15.00 

Volume VI 

Collations on the Ten Commandments 

Paul Spaeth 

The Collations on the TenCommandments 

addresses three important aspects of St. Bonaventure’s 

work. The work shows a reflection of 

Bonaventure as a Bible expositor, a theologian/ 

philosopher, and as a preacher. 

1995: 101 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-005-8 $15.00 

Volume VII 

St. Bonaventure’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes 

An important text for historians of theology and 

philosophy. This volume illustrates how Bonaventure 

was influenced by the Book of Ecclesiastes. 

2005: 461 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-197-0 $40.00 

Volume VIII 

Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Part I: 

Chapters 1-8. 

Robert J. Karris, OFM 

This highly readable translation with its invaluable 

footnotes and union of medieval commentary 

with contemporary exegesis will appeal to 

Franciscans, Lucan scholars, preachers, and will 

allow for quiet moments of Lectio Divina. 

2001: 849 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-179-6 $50.00 

Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Part II: 

Chapters 9-16. 


This translation offers insight not only into the 

riches of many Church Fathers on whose thought 

he draws, but in its finished form, this publication 

will be an excellent resource for teachers and for 

preachers, as well as for many who reflect on this 

Gospel in search of spiritual insight. 

2003: 897 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-183-3 $50.00 

Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Part III: 

Chapters 17-24. 


As a work of historical theologizing, Bonaventure’s 

commentary is an invaluable witness to its 

age as well as to the biblical interpretation that 

was long a mainstay of Catholic hermeneutics 

and preaching. 

2004: 928 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-184-0 $50.00 

Volume IX 

Breviloquium 

Dominic V. Monti, OFM 

This is Bonaventure’s comprehensive presentation 

of Christian doctrine in a form suitable for 

instructional purposes. It can be used by anyone 

with an interest in the writings of the Seraphic 

Doctor. 2005: 329 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-199-4 $40.00 

2006: 434 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-162-8 $40.00 

Volume X 

Writings on the 

Spiritual Life 

edited by F. Edward Coughlin, OFM 

An Introductory Essay presents a detailed overview 

of Bonaventure’s spiritual theology, followed 

by the text of Threefold Way, as well as 

lesser known but vibrant meditation texts. 

Volume XI 

Bonaventure’s 

Commentary on the Gospel of John 

edited by Robert Karris, OFM 

For the first time Bonaventure’s Commentary on 

the Gospel of John is now accessible in readable 

English, with helpful notes. Karris brings us Bonaventure’s 

interpretations which are often surprisingly 

contemporary, theologically attuned, 

pastorally sensitive and textually oriented. 

2007: 1110 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-143-7 $70.00 

Volume XII 

The Sunday Sermons of St. Bonaventure 

edited by Timothy J. Johnson, PhD 

The twelfth volume of the Works of St. 

Bonaventure Series provides the careful reader 

with rich meditation through the liturgical year 

as well as new insights into the spiritual and 

apostolic formation of Bonaventure’s Franciscan 

confreres. 

2008: 583 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-145-1 $50.00 

Volume XIII 

Disputed Questions on Evangelical Perfection 

translated by Thomas Reist, OFM and Robert J. 

Karris, OFM 

Written at the height of the Mendicant Controversy 

at the University of Paris (1250-1256). 

While this treatise teaches that the Franciscan 

friars follow the Gospel by being humble, poor, 

chaste, and obedient, it is also Bonaventure’s vigorous 

defense of the mendicant way of life against opponents such 

as William of Saint-Amour whose apocalyptic polemic painted the 

followers of the Poverello as forerunners of the Antichrist. 

2008: 360 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-146-8 $45.00 

Volume XIV 

Collations on the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit 

translated by Zachary Hayes, OFM 

The first English translation of St. Bonaventure’s 

Collationes de septem donis Spiritus Sancti to appear 

in print, this fourteenth volume in the series 

is the crowning achievement of Zachary Hayes, 

a pre-eminent commentator on Bonaventure’s 

thought for four decades. 

2008: 222 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-147-5 $40.00 

Volume XV 

Defense of the Mendicants 

translated by Jose de Vinck and Robert J. Karris, OFM 

In twelve chapters St. Bonaventure defends the 

Franciscan way of life against the attacks of the 

Parisian Master, Gerard of Abbeville. Bonaventure 

clarifies the meaning of evangelical perfection, 

gospel poverty, and the imitation of Christ. 

This volume is a companion to Bonaventure’s Disputed Questions 

on Evangelical Perfection (Works of St. Bonaventure XIII). 

2010: 423 p. 

Pb 978-1-57569-159-8 $44.95 

Fifteen volume Set: 

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studies on bonaventure 

30 Days with the Gospel of Luke 

edited by Robert J. Karris 

Bonaventure has many insights to share not only 

with members of the Franciscan Family, but 

also with the church at large. From his work on 

translating and annotating St. Bonaventure’s threevolume 

Commentary on Luke’s Gospel, noted 

Scripture scholar Robert Karris has developed this 

book of reflections for thirty days. Playfully referring 

to them as “BonaLuke bites,” Karris gives preferential treatment 

to those passages used in the Sunday lectionary during Cycle B. 

2012: 100 p 

Pb 978-1-57659-345-5 $14.95 


Bonaventure: Mystic of God’s Word 

edited by Timothy J. Johnson, PhD 

A collection and translation of selected spiritual 

texts of Bonaventure, this book is a great 

introductory tool for understanding the essence 

of Bonaventure’s theology, rooted as it is in the 

mystery of the Word of God. 

1999: 176 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-211-3 $14.95 

Divine and Created Order in Bonaventure’s 

Theology 

by J.A. Wayne Hellmann, OFM Conv. t 

ranslated and edited with an appendix by J.M. 

Hammond, PhD. 

This volume addresses the hierarchical thought 

patterns of Bonaventure’s theology within the 

framework of “order.” The author concludes that 

all orders are embraced by one order of charity, 

and the following of Christ to the cross is the key to the divine 

order of charity. 

2001: 311p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-173-4 $24.95 

The Franciscan Leader: A Modern Version of 

the Six Wings of the Seraph. An Anonymous 

Franciscan Treatise in the Tradition of St. 

Bonaventure 

translated by Philip O’Mara 

This short work has been used in religious communities 

for centuries to study the virtues of a 

religious superior. Its popularity stems from its 

practical moral psychology, its brief and memorable 

allegory, and its happy use of abundant scripture. 

2007: 103 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-126-0 $9.95 

The Hidden Center 

Zachary Hayes, OFM 2000, reprint of 1992 

and 1979 printings. 

This work presents the development of 

St. Bonaventure’s Christology from his early 

Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard 

to his last conferences on the Hexaemeron. 

2000: 222 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-064-5 $12.95 

Introduction to The Works of Bonaventure 

J. Guy Bougerol, OFM 

A French Franciscan scholar and eminent Franciscan 

authority, Bougerol provides a major key 

to the understanding of the Works of Bonaventure. 

Here, in language that is learned but never 

unclear, he offers an exposition of the time in 

which Bonaventure lived, the cultural currents 

that influenced him, and the particular circumstances 

in which each of his works originated. 

1964: 262 p. 

Hc 978-0-8199-0525-9 $16.00 

Psychology of Love According to 

St. Bonaventure 

by Robert P. Prentice, OFM 

An analysis of St. Bonaventure’s doctrine on 

purely human, natural love. 

1957: 160 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-096-6 $9.95 

The Soul In Ascent 

by Timothy J. Johnson, PhD. 

First published by Franciscan press in 2000, 

Dr. Timothy J Johnson’s The Soul in Ascent: 

Bonaventure on Poverty, Prayer and Union with 

God has offered a thorough textual study of the 

importance of prayer in Bonaventure’s theology 

and life. This new edition is updated to include 

Johnson’s most recent work on Bonaventure’s 

Sunday Sermons sourced from his work, The Sunday Sermons of 

St. Bonaventure – Bonaventure Texts in Translation Series. This 

new edition is a must-read book for anyone interested in Franciscan 

spirituality and theology. 

2012: 2400 p. Release Date: October 2012 

Pb 978-1-57659-342-4 $24.95 

Scotus for Dunces: An Introduction to 

the Subtle Doctor 

by Mary Beth Ingham, CSJ This book is a 

“simple guide” to theological and philosophical 

aspects of the thought of the medieval Franciscan 

John Duns Scotus. Ingham provides an insightful 

and creative introduction to his philosophical 

and theological principles, which are explored with clarity 

and demonstrated by the use of numerous practical examples. 

2003: 240 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-187-1 $19.95 

The Harmony of Goodness 

by Mary Beth Ingham, CSJ 

In The Harmony of Goodness, Ingham presents 

the ethical vision of John Duns Scotus (1265- 

1308) in an integrated manner, bringing together 

aspects of virtue, moral reasoning, free choice, 

rational judgment, and spirituality as parts of a 

whole human life. This work examines the ethical thought of Scotus 

according to his notion of mutuality or relationship. This study 

brings to light Scotus’ integrated vision of human moral living. 

1996: 180 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-336-3 $24.95 

The Ethical Theory of John Duns Scotus 

by Thomas Shannon 

To some, the examination of the ethical 

theory of John Duns Scotus may seem an 

arcane perhaps even foolhardy exercise. 

Scotus lived over 700 years ago; his thought 

is difficult to grasp; many themes in his 

analysis of issues seem to be or actually are 

convoluted. Additionally, many have not heard of Scotus or, 

if they have, it is primarily as the one who opposed Aquinas 

and came off second best. Even his beatification in 1993 was 

not widely noted outside of the Franciscan community. In this 

book, the author discovers areas of congruence and insight 

between Scotus’s thought and several contemporary issues. 

1995: 175 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-341-7 $24.95 

John Duns Scotus: Mary’s Architect 

by Allan B. Wolter, OFM and Blane O’Neil, OFM 

The Subtle Doctor, as Scotus is called, presents 

a model of Mary the mother of Jesus 

as the fullest image of the living person. She 

is the fullest humanity of all human beings, 

man or woman. Allan B. Wolter, OFM is one 

of the foremost authorities on and translators 

of Scotus’ writings. He, together with Blane O’Neill, OFM, 

clearly lay out in this book Scotus’s argument for “preventive 

redemption” whereby the Immaculate Conception of 

Mary represents the masterwork of Christ’s redemption. 

1993: 99 p. 

Pb 978-0-8199-0960-2 $15.95 

John Duns Scotus, 

Philosopher: Proceedings of “The Quadruple 

Congress” on John Duns Scotus Part 1 

edited by Mary Beth Ingham and Oleg Bychkov. 

From October 2007 through March 2009, four 

international conferences were held in honor of 

the 800th anniversary of the death of John Duns 

Scotus (d. 1308). This volume represents the first 

conference held at St. Bonaventure University in 2007. Fifteen essays 

are included in this volume, including contributions from Stephen F. 

Brown, Timothy Noone, Mary Beth Ingham, and Antonie Vos. 

2010: 286 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-213-7 $75.00 

The Opera Theologica of John Duns Scotus 

The Quadruple Congress on John Duns 

Scotus, part 2 


This volume represents the second conference 

held at Oriel College, Oxford in July 2008. The 

corresponding four volumes represent the current 

state of international Scotus scholarship 

and will remain an invaluable tool for years 

to come. Part 2, offering investigations into the theology of John 

Duns Scotus, contains contributions by Robert Andrews, Oleg 

Bychkov, William J. Courtenay, Richard Cross, William A. Frank , 

Tobias Hofmann and Ludger Honnefelder 

2012: 200 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-313-4 $90.00 

John Duns Scotus, Investigations into his 

Philosphy: Proceedings of “The Quadruple 

Congress” on John Duns Scotus Part 3 

edited by Ludger Honnefelder, Hannes Mohle, 

Andreas Speer, Theo Kobusch, Susana Bullido 

del Barrio. This volume represents the third conference 

held in Cologne-Bonne. Twenty-eight 

essays comprise this volume including works 

from Rega Wood, Jan A. Aertsen, Marilyn Mc- 

Cord Adams, and Robert Andrews. In English and German. 

2011: 540 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-216-8 $110.00 

Scotism through the centuries: Proceedings of The 

Quadruple Congress on John Duns Scotus, part 4 


The present volume brings together essays that 

deal with the reception of the philosophy and 

deal theology of John Duns Scotus (1265/66- 

1308). Stretched is an arc from his contemporaries 

and his immediate students in the 14th 

Century begins and analytical at the current Philosophy 

ends. Most of the posts goes to an international meeting 

back to the title of La postérité de Duns Scot 18th to 21st was held 

March 2009 at the University of Strasbourg. 

2012: 352 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-314-1 $100.00 



NEW EDITION 

The 

Ethical 

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Thomas A. Shannon 

john duns scotus

John Duns scotus John Duns scotus PhilosoPhical Works 

John Duns Scotus. Early Oxford Lecture on 

Individuation 

introduction with Latin text and English translation 

and notes by (†) Allan B. Wolter, OFM 

The problem of individuation, because of its theological 

implications, was a particularly controversial 

topic in university circles, especially at Paris 

and Oxford in the late thirteenth century. Scotus’s 

lecture translated here is from his first bachelor lectures in Oxford 

on theological issues occasioned by Peter Lombard’s Sentences. 

2005: 144 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-191-8 $14.95 

John Duns Scotus. Four Questions on Mary 

translated with an introduction and notes by (†) 

Allan B. Wolter, OFM 

This small book offers, in a Latin/English edition, 

a contribution of John Duns Scotus to the theological 

discussion on Mary the Mother of God. 

His views had a profound influence on Marian 

doctrine and devotion over the centuries, culminating in Pius IX’s 

dogmatic proclamation of Mary’s Immaculate Conception. 

2000: 110 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-168-0 $19.95 

John Duns Scotus. Political and Economic 

Philosophy 

introduction with Latin text and English translation 

by (†) Allan B. Wolter, OFM 

Although Scotus’ primary philosophical reputation 

is as a metaphysician, he did have certain definitive 

ideas about politics and the morality of the market 

place. This volume presents two manuscripts of Book IV of Scotus’ 

Ordinatio, which present his political and economic philosophy. 

The critical edition of the Latin text is included, together with parallel 

English translation. 

2001: 92 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-172-7 $12.95 

John Duns Scotus. A Treatise on Potency and Act. 

Questions on the Metaphysics of Aristotle Book IX 

introduction and commentary with Latin text and 

English translation by (†) Allan B. Wolter, OFM 

This volume presents Book IX of Scotus’ Questions 

on the Metaphysics of Aristotle, which deals with the 

fundamental philosophical issues of Potency and 

Act. The critical edition of the Latin text is included, together with 

parallel English translation, accompanied by commentary. 

2000: 412 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-170-3 $24.95 

Scotus and Ockham Selected Essays 

edited By (†) Allan B. Wolter, OFM 

Produced over a career of six decades, Allan 

Wolter’s monumental editions, translations, commentaries 

and studies constitute by far the largest 

and most influential body of scholarship by any 

modern author of John Duns Scotus. The present collection brings 

together twelve of Wolter’s seminal articles, most of which have 

never been reprinted, as well as two new studies written for this 

volume. They range over the length of Wolter’s career and represent 

the breadth of his interests: Scotus’s literary production and academic 

career, his metaphysics, ethics, and theology, and his relation 

to Ockham and other Franciscan theologians. 

2003: 350 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-188-8 $24.95 

The Examined Report of the 

Parish Lecture, Reportatio I-A 

edited and translated by (†) Allan 

B. Wolter, OFM and Oleg Bychkov. 

These companion volumes give 

the reader, both in Latin and in 

English translation, a solid working 

text of the Examined Report 

of the Paris Lecture of John Duns 

Scotus, known to scholars as Reportatio I-A. In light of new research 

and observations, the Reportatio I-A represents a more 

advanced and mature stage of Scotus’ thought. It features an expanded 

discussion of the divine ideas, a well-argued and concise 

account of the problem of contingency, a more advanced account 

of the ‘formal distinction’ and a novel view of personal property. 

The Reportatio I-A contains a different layout of questions and 

sometimes whole different Distinctions compared to other theological 

and philosophical texts of Scotus’ thought. 

Volume I - 2004: 1288 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-193-2 $90.00 

Volume II - 2008: 1220 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-150-5 $99.00 

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Questions on the Metaphysics of 

Aristotle by John Duns Scotus 

Volume I and Volume II, translated 

by Girard J. Etzkorn and (†) Allan B. 

Wolter, OFM. 

An English translation in two 

volumes of the Latin critical 

edition of B. Ionnis Duns Scoti: 

Quaestiones super libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis, Libri I-IX. 

Follows the Latin text paragraph by paragraph. The translator’s 

introduction provides helpful background material. 

Volume I 1997: 602 p. 

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Volume II 1997: 643 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-161-1 $50.00 

Two volume Set: 

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This five-volume set represents critical editions of Scotus’ 

commentaries on the metaphysics of Aristotle. Begun in the 1990’s 

and completeed in 2006, these are the preeminent source documents 

for understanding Scotus 

Volume I 

Quaestiones in Librum Porphyrii isagoge et Quaestiones 

Super Praedicamenta Aristotelis 

edited by Robert Andrews, Girard J. Etzkorn, (†) Gedeon Gál, 

OFM, Romuald Green, OFM, Timothy Noone, Rega Wood. (1999) 

Hardcover, bound in imitation leather. 

1999: 698 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-121-5 $125.00 

Volume II 

Quaestiones in Libros Perihermenias Aristotelis 


OFM, Romuald Green, O.F.M., Timothy Noone, Roberto Plevano, 

Andrew Traver, Rega Wood. Quaestiones super Librum Elenchorum 

Aristotelis, edited by Robert Andrews, Oleg Bychkov, S. Ebbesen, 

Girard J. Etzkorn, (†) Gedeon Gál, OFM, Romuald Green, OFM, 

Timothy Noone, Roberto Plevano, Andrew Traver. Theoremata edited 

by Mechtild Dreyer, H. Möhler with the collaboration of G. 

Krieger (2004). Hardcover, bound in imitation leather. 

2004: 768 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-122-2 $125.00 

Volume III 

Quaestiones super Libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis, Libri I-V 


OFM, Romuald Green, OFM, (†) Francis Kelley, (†) George 

Marcil, Timothy Noone, Rega Wood. 

1997: 848 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-123-9 $125.00 

Volume IV 

Quaestiones super Libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis, Libri VI- 

IX 


OFM, Romuald Green, OFM, (†) Francis Kelley, (†) George Marcil, 

Timothy Noone, Rega Wood. 

1997: 806 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-124-6 $125.00 

Volume V 

Quaestiones super Secundum et Tertium de Anima 

edited by Bernardo C. Bazán, K. Emery, Romuald Green, OFM, 

Timothy Noone, Roberto Plevano, Andrew Traver 

2006: 443 p. 

Hc 978-0-8132-1422-1 $125.00 

Five volume Set: 

Hc 978-1-57659-227-4 $499.00 

($625.00 value) 


william of ockham theological works william of ockham philosophical works 

Franciscan Institute Publications presents a ten-volume set of 

Ockham’s Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, a standard 

requirement for medieval theology students. Ockham began his 

theological training at Oxford around the year 1318-19 which included 

a required two-year cycle of lectures commenting on Lombard’s 

Sentences, the standard theological textbook of the day. This ten-volume 

critical edition of Ockham’s theological commentary and lectures was 

begun in 1967 and completed in 1986. 

Volume I 

Scriptum in Librum Primum Sententiarum (Ordinatio), Prologus et 

Distinctio prima 

A critical edition by (†) Gedeon Gál, OFM and Stephen F. Brown. 

1967: 576 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-015-7 $100.00 

Volume II 

Scriptum in Librum Primum Sententiarum (Ordinatio), 

Distinctiones secunda et tertia 

edited by Stephen F. Brown and (†) Gedeon Gál, OFM. 

1970: 633 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-016-4 $100.00 

It is in these two volumes that Ockham lays the foundation of his 

whole philosophical and theological doctrine as he inquires: What 

can we know? What kind of knowledge is theology? What can we 

know about the existence and the nature of God? 

Volume III 


Distinctiones 4-18 

edited by Girard J. Etzkorn. 

In this volume, Ockham addresses questions of Trinitarian theology 

and an important series of questions on charity, grace and merit. 

1977: 623 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-017-1 $100.00 

Volume IV 



edited by Girard J. Etzkorn and Francis E. Kelley. 

This volume contains a portion of Ockham’s commentary on the 

Sentences of Peter Lombard which Ockham himself prepared for 

publication (ordinatio). 2000: 773 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-018-8 $100.00 

Volume V 

Quaestiones in Librum Secundum Sententiarum (Reportatio) 

edited by (†) Gedeon Gál, OFM and Rega Wood. 

Ockham’s lectures on books II-IV of Peter Lombard’s Sentences 

survive in the form of Reportatio, namely, as notes taken by a scribe 

during the actual oral lectures. 

1981: 542 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-019-5 $75.00 

Volume VI 

Quaestiones in Tertium Librum Sententiarum (Reportatio) 

edited by Francis E. Kelley and Girard J. Etzkorn. 

The Venerable Beginner deals with the morality of the external act and 

the interconnectedness of the virtues which would later be expanded 

into a lengthy treatise. 

1982: 483 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-020-1 $75.00 

Volume VII 

Quaestiones in Librum Quartum Sententiarum (Reportatio) 

edited by Rega Wood and (†) Gedeon Gál, OFM. 

While discussing the Eucharistic species (accidents), the Venerable 

Beginner takes the opportunity of proposing his (controversial) 

opinion regarding the identity of quantity and material substance. 

1984: 411 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-021-8 $75.00 

Volume VIII 

Quaestiones Variae 

edited by Girard J. Etzkorn, Francis E. Kelley and Joseph C. Wey, CSB. 

This volume contains various questions, notability, dubitationes, 

determinationes and the lengthy inaugural lecture on the Bible dealing 

with the interconnectedness of the virtues. 1984: 606 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-022-5 $75.00 

Volume IX 

Quodlibeta Septem 

edited by Joseph C. Wey. 

Ockham in this work answers questions about grammar, logic, 

philosophy, God, angels, man, virtues and sacraments. 

1980: 879 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-023-2 $100.00 

Volume X 

Tractatus de Sacramento Altaris and De Corpore Christi 

edited by Carlo A. Grassi. 

This volume contains two tracts in which the Venerable Beginner 

unfolds and defends his opinions concerning the body of Christ in 

the sacrament of the Eucharist. 1986: 251 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-024-9 $100.00 

Ten volume Set: 

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Ockham published several philosophical works. Ockham also wrote 

several commentaries on the works of Aristotle. In addition, he engaged 

in public debates, the proceedings of which were published 

under the titles Disputed Questions and Quodlibetal Questions— 

“quodlibet” meaning “whatever you like.” Ockham’s opus magnum, 

however, is his Summa Logicae, in which he lays out the fundamentals 

of his logic and its accompanying metaphysics. All of Ockham’s 

works have been edited into modern editions but not all 

have been translated. These seven volumes are colectively called 

Ockham’s Philosophica, are critical works of his most important 

philosophical work. This series represents a multi-decade effort, 

with the first volume published in 1974 and the seventh volume 

published in 1988. 

Volume I 

Summa Logicae 

edited by (†) Philotheus Boehner, OFM, (†) Gedeon 

Gál, OFM, and Stephen F. Brown. 

This edition is based on eight of the sixty-five extant manuscripts, 

seven of them written during the lifetime of the author. A detailed 

subject-index facilitates the consultation. 

1974: 976 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-008-9 $125.00 

Volume II 

Expositionis in Libros Artis Logicae Pro-oemium et Expositio 

in Librum Porphyrii de Praedicabilibus 

edited by (†) Ernest A. Moody; Expositio in Librum Praedicamentorum 

Aristotelis, ed. by (†) Gedeon Gál, OFM; Expositio 

in Librum Perihermenias Aristotelis, ed. by Angelus R. Gambatese 

and Stephen Brown; Tractatus de Praedestinatione et 

de Praescientia Dei et de Futuris Contingentibus, ed. by (†) 

Philotheus Boehner, OFM., revised by Stephen Brown. 

It contains a general introduction to the Aristotelian logic, the 

exposition of Porphyry’s Isagoge (Praedicabilia or Quinque Voces), 

the exposition of Aristotle’s Categories or Praedicamenta and the 

exposition of Aristotle’s Perihermenias or On Interpretation. 

1978: 608 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-010-2 $100.00 

Volume III 

Exposition super Libros Elenchorum Aristotelis 

edited by Francesco del Punta. 

This work of Ockham has never been edited before. It is an exposition 

of Aristotle’s work on Sophistical Refutations which 

deals with the defects or fallacies occurring in argumentation: 

how to recognize and how to avoid them. 2001: 352 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-009-6 $60.00 

Volume IV 

Expositio in Libros Physicorum 

(Books I-III) 

edited by Vladimir Richter, S.J. and Gerhard Leibold. 

This volume contains Ockham’s literal commentary on the 

Physics of Aristotle and follows closely the treatment of the 

influential Islamic philospher, Averroes. 1985: 624 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-011-9 $90.00 

Volume V 

Expositio in Libros Physicorum 

(Books IV-VIII) 

edited by Rega Wood, (†) Gedeon Gál, OFM., 

Romuald Green, OFM and Girard J. Etzkorn. 

This is the continuation of Ockham’s literal commentary 

on Aristotle’s Physics. Only a few pages of Ockham’s 

exposition of Book VIII (never finished) survive. 

1985: 752 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-012-6 $100.00 

Volume VI 

Brevis Summa Libri Physicorum, Summula Philosophiae Naturalis 

and Quaestiones super Librum Phsicorum Aristotelis 

edited by Stephen F. Brown. 

The Brevis Summa, The Summula Philosophiae Naturalis, and The 

Quaestiones super Librum Physicorum Aristotelis are included. 

1984: 896 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-013-3 $125.00 

Volume VII 

Dubia et Spuria. Tractatus Minor Logicae et Elementarium Logicae 

edited by (†) Eligius Buytaert, OFM 

While at some time or other in history the contents of this volume 

have been attributed to William of Ockham, stylistic considerations 

and in some instances doctrinal content indicate 

that these treatises are not of Ockhamian authorship. Nevertheless, 

the contents of this volume have been associated with 

the views and opinions of the Venerable Beginner and are often 

helpful in understanding many of his key positions. 

1988: 704 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-014-0 $100.00 

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William of ockham Peter of John olivi 

A Compendium of Ockham’s Teachings: 

A Translation of Tractatus de Principiis 

Theologiae 

by Julian Davies, OFM 

Ockham’s two great principles were the Principle 

of divine Omnipotence – and the Principle 

of Parsimony – Plurality is never to be posited 

without necessity. The Tractatus takes all of 

Ockham’s views and explains them as related to, or consequences 

of, the two principles – 167 from the Principle of Divine Omnipotence, 

81 from the Principle of Parsimony. 

1998: 135 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-129-1 $15.00 

Ockham on Aristotle’s Physics: A Translation 

of Ockham’s Brevis Summa Libri Physicorum 

translated by Julian Davies, OFM 

The Brevis Summa Libri Physicorum is one of 

four works on natural philosophy written by 

William of Ockham (14th century). As the title 

indicates, it is a short treatise. This compendium 

on Aristotle’s physics is presented here in a 

quite readable English translation. 

1989: 170 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-060-7 $12.00 

Theory of Demonstration According 

to William Ockham 

Damascene Webering, OFM 

Sold as Is. The author studies one of the principal 

problems of scholastic logic: namely, the 

nature of demonstration as expounded by the 

eminent medieval logician William of Ockham. 

1953: 186 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-099-7 $8.00 Sold As Is 

Collected Articles on Ockham 

Philotheus Boehner, OFM, and Eligius M. 

Buytaert, OFM, 

In preparation for the projected critical 

edition of Ockham’s Opera Philosophica et 

Theologica, Philotheus Boehner, OFM, described 

the extant manuscripts and discussed 

the authenticity and date of composition 

of Ockham’s writings. He also studied and 

illustrated Ockham’s teaching on logic, metaphysics, 

and political theories. Eligius Buytaert, OFM, Boehner’s 

successor and disciple collected, regrouped, and indexed 24 

articles in this volume, which is an indispensable introduction to 

the study of William of Ockham. 

1992: 482 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-101-7 $19.95 

Scotus and Ockham Selected Essays 

edited By (†) Allan B. Wolter, OFM 

Produced over a career of six decades, Allan 

Wolter’s monumental editions, translations, 

commentaries and studies constitute by far the 

largest and most influential body of scholarship 

by any modern author of John Duns Scotus. 

The present collection brings together twelve 

of Wolter’s seminal articles, most of which have 

never been reprinted, as well as two new studies written for this 

volume. They range over the length of Wolter’s career and represent 

the breadth of his interests: Scotus’s literary production and 

academic career, his metaphysics, ethics, and theology, and his 

relation to Ockham and other Franciscan theologians. 

2003: 350 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-188-8 $24.95 

Peter of John Olivi on the Acts of the Apostles 

edited by David Flood, OFM 

Peter Olivi sets out to study the beginnings and the progress 

(exitus et processus) of the early church in his commentary on the 

Acts of the Apostles. He adds that, just as the Book of Kings and 

the Chronicles help us understand the prophets, so does the book 

of Acts help us understand Paul’s epistles and the “canonical” 

letters. In accord with his biblical theology, Peter Olivi gave more 

attention to the historical books of the Bible than did the other 

scholastics. The result is his commentary on Pentecost, the church 

of Antioch, the council of Jerusalem, Paul’s visit to Athens and 

trip to Rome. Latin text. 

2001: 516 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-174-1 $50.00 

Peter of John Olivi on the Bible 

edited by David Flood, OFM and 

(†) Gedeon Gal, OFM 

Peter Olivi read scripture to discover what God was doing in history. 

It was then possible to say what Franciscans should be doing. 

We see Peter Olivi at work on Scripture in the writings edited in 

this book. The book contains editions of Olivi’s principia on the 

study of Scripture and his commentaries on Isaiah and I Corinthians. 

With English summaries. 

1997: 431 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-128-4 $40.00 

Peter of John Olivi on Genesis 

edited by David Flood, OFM 

Peter Olivi studies history through scripture, insisting that the full 

course of history can be read in the revelation of the book. Latin 

Text with English Notes. 

2007: 733 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-144-4 $50.00 

Three volume Set: $105.00 

($140.00 value) 

Peter of John Olivi: Commentary on the 

Gospel of Mark 

translation and introduction by Robert J. 

Karris, OFM 

Peter of John Olivi introduces his Commentary 

on Mark by explaining the brevity of his 

treatment. His Commentaries on Matthew 

and John lie behind him. In the light of that 

work, he proposes, we can read Mark easily. 

And so he divides and summarizes Mark, 

pausing only at passages particular to Mark’s account. 

August 2011: 112 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-234-2 $19.95 

Spiritual Warfare and Six Other Spiritual 

Writings of Peter of John Olivi 

While Peter of John Olivi (d. 1298) is generally 

classified more as a theologian and/ 

or philosopher than as a spiritual director, 

Robert Karris presents several short works 

by Olivi which clearly indicate that he was 

concerned for the spiritual progress of lay 

people, too. Besides Olivi’s four spiritual 

writings 

– The Armed Soldier, The Prayer of Thanksgiving, Lessons on 

Growth in the Spiritual Life and Remedies against Spiritual 

Temptations – Karris adds Olivi’s treatise on The Lord’s Prayer, on 

The Seven Sentiments of Christ Jesus, and an abbreviated version 

of his commentary on Mary’s response to Gabriel in Luke 1:26-38. 

In addition to the works of Olivi, Karris provides a plethora of 

footnotes to aid the reader, and in an appendix he has translated 

two interpretive parallels to help readers see where Olivi follows 

traditional lines of thought and where he diverges into his own 

unique treatment. For too long the temptation to dismiss Olivi as 

a Franciscan reformer who ran afoul of the Roman authorities 

after his death has kept his writings in the background of Franciscan 

scholarship. Now, with this short but penetrating introduction 

to another facet of Peter of John Olivi’s ministry, Karris gives 

us reason to look again and find new treasures in the life of Olivi 

which can enrich us today. 

2012: 120 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-344-8 $19.95 

Publications Date: December 2012 


Medieval TexTs 

Nicolaus Minorita: Chronica (The Early 

13th Century Poverty Controversy) 

edited by (†) Gedeon Gál, OFM and 

David Flood, OFM 

A well-documented history of the poverty 

controversy as told by Nicolaus Minorita, 

this volume is a “sourcebook” which offers 

scholars a large collection of fundamental 

and authentic documents as well as a history 

of the events surrounding the controversy 

during the papacy of John XXII. Latin documentation. 

1996: 1238 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-118-2 $85.00 

Lectura Secunda (Quaestiones 

in I Sententiarum Petri 

Lombardi). 

In the prologue Wodeham questions 

what evidence is accessible 

to us in the present life. The first 

three questions of Distinction 1 

deal with the nature of science 

generally, and specifically with 

theology as a science. Only after 

a significant discussion concerning 

these questions does Wodeham proceed to fruition and 

beatific vision, the subjects with which most authors begin Distinction 

1. From the end of volume I, through the Distinctiones in 

volumes II and III, Adam de Wodeham follows the order of Peter 

Lombard’s Sentences. Latin Text. 

Volume I 

Prologus et distinctio 1 

edited by Rega Wood. 

1990: 354 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-105-5 $75.00 

Volume II 


edited by (†) Gedeon Gál, OFM. 

1990: 374 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-106-2 $75.00 

Volume III 


edited by Rega Wood. 

1990: 491 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-107-9 $75.00 

The work compiled by Marcus of 

Orvieto is titled Liber de Moralitatibus. 

It falls into the category of exempla 

literature, in this case, a sourcebook for 

preachers. Marcus follows a strategy of 

giving physical descriptions of an item 

followed by its spiritual significance 

bolstered by scripture quotes and 

examples. Marcus uses the work of his 

Confrere Bartholomew of England’s De 

proprietatibus rerum and fills his text 

with simple comparisons, analogies and similes intended to help the 

preacher’s audience remember the spiritual meaning to be found in 

the world around them. 

Marcus of Orvieto is firmly fixed in the tradition of Bonaventure, 

for whom wisdom was eminently superior to knowledge, citing him 

frequently, particularly from the Legenda maior, and also from the 

Commentary on Luke. 

In the Middle Ages, sermons constituted important cultural 

events in the daily and weekly lives of what was in Western Europe 

a largely Christian population. Thus, by providing a “handbook” for 

preachers, Marcus provided a valuable service to the cultural milieu 

of his time. Edited by Girard J. Etzkorn. Latin Text. 

Volume I 

2005: 525 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-135-2 $75.00 

Volume II 

2005: 498 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-136-9 $75.00 

Volume III 

2005: 395 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-137-96 $75.00 

Peter Aureoli: Scriptum Super Primum 

Sententiarum. Dist. II-VIII 

Eligius, M. Buytaert, OFM 

Peter Aureoli, a Franciscan Friar from 

Aquitania, lectured on the Sentences of 

Peter Lombard both in Toulouse and Paris, 

was elected Provincial of Aquitania and 

consecrated Bishop of Aix by John XXII. The 

Scriptum is a monumental work, which the 

author dedicated to his friend and protector 

John XXII. The present edition is based on the 

copy written for the Pope. Latin Text. 

1956: 1053 p. (Sold As Is) 

Pb 978-1-57659-119-0 $24.95 

The Medieval Franciscans: Volume 2 Friars 

and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 

edited by Steven J. McMicael and 

Susan E. Myers 

This volume deals with friars, expecially the 

Franciscans and Dominicans, in their writing 

and preaching about Jews and Judaism in the 

Middle Ages and Renaissance. 

English Text 

2004: 316 p. 

Hc 978-9-00411-398-3 $50.00 

not available for trade distribution 

Theory of Knowledge of Vital du Four 

John E. Lynch, CSP, 

French Franciscan Vital Du Four was a 

counselor to two popes, Clement V and John 

XXII, and was a central figure in the poverty 

controversy of the early fourteenth century. 

1972: 216 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-103-1 $24.95 

John de la Rochelle – Eleven Marian 

Sermons 

This volume contains John de la Rochelle’s 

Marian sermons which contain specific treatment 

of Marian doctrine and includes four 

sermons on the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin 

Mary, four sermons on the Assumption of the 

Blessed Virgin Mary, one sermon on the Annunciation, 

one on the Purification and one 

on the Nativity of the Lord. 

1961: 103 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-054-6 $24.95 

Identity & Distinction in Petrus Thomae 

Geoffrey G. Bridges, OFM, 

Because the Spanish Franciscan Friar Petrus 

Thomae (died about 1350) was an immediate 

disciple of John Duns Scotus, it is natural that 

his doctrine reflects the teaching of the master 

and contributes to its better understanding. 

The important place which the formal distinction 

occupies in the system of Scotus is well 

known. Petrus Thomae composed an extensive work entitled 

De Formalitatibus, in which he explains and defends this much- 

criticized Scotistic position. 

1959: 186 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-102-4 $24.95 

History of the Controversy Over the Debitum 

Peccati 

Juniper P. Carol, OFM 

The object of this work is to study the genesis 

of the spirited debate between deists and antideists 

regarding the Immaculate Conception. 

1978: 260 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-026-3 $24.95 

Studies Honoring Ignatius Charles Brady, 

Friar Minor 

edited by Romano Stephen Almagno and 

Conrad L. Harkins 

This collection of more than 20 essays that 

are considered to be the nearest to the heart, 

thought, and science of Ignatius Charles 

Brady and are presented in honor of this 20th 

century giant of Medieval scholarship. 

1976: 496 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-029-4 $24.95 

De Puritate Artis Logicae Tractatus Longior 

by Walter Burleigh, edited by Philotheus 

Boehner., OFM 

Critical editions of two 13th century manuscripts 

written by the Englishman Magister 

Walter Burleigh containing his systemic work 

on Logic. 

1955: 264 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-057-7 $24.95 

First Gospel, Genesis 3:15 

Dominic J. Unger, OFM Cap 

Examination of Genesis and its connection to 

Mary’s Immaculate Conception. 

1954: 632 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-030-0 $24.95 

The Sacrament of Confirmation in the 

Early-Middle Scholastic Period 

by Killian F. Lynch, OFM 

Pb 978-1-57659-025-6 $24.95 

Henrici de Werla, OFM: Opera Omnia 

by Sophronius Clasen, OFM 

Latin Text 

Pb 978-1-57659-056-0 $24.95 

Paul of Pergula: Logica and Tractatus de 

Sensu Composito ed Diviso 

edited by Sr. Mary Anthony Brown, OSF, PhD 

The Logica should be regarded, not as an 

innovation, but rather as a mosaic of the 

treasury of logic known at the time. The 

contents, expressions, generalizations, diction 

and phrasing are all particular to the period 

and special to the rigid form of expression 

employed in texts concerning logic. 

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Medieval TexTs 

Paul of Venice: Logica Magna 

The theory of reference, sometimes called 

supposition, is an explanation of the ways 

in which words refer to objects in function 

of certain linguisitc signs. Paul of Venice 

maintains a threefold division: Material 

Reference, Simple Reference, and Personal 

Reference, all of which are identified. 

Pb 978-1-57659-052-2 

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Tractatus de Perspectiva 

by John Pecham 

edited with introduction and notes by David 

C. Lindberg 

John Pecham was interested in the entire 

range of thirteenth-century learning, and 

he wrote on theology, psychology, natural 

philospohy, and mathematics. Pecham was a 

significant figure in the scientific movement 

of the thirteenth-century. 

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Tractatus de Sacramentis 

by Guidonis de Orchellis 

edited by PP. Damiani et Odulphi Van den 

Eynde, OFM 

Pb 978-1-57659-059-1 


Tractatus De Successivis 

attributed to William of Ockham 

edited by Philoteus Boehner, OFM 

Boehner begins this volume with a biography 

of Ockham and a bibliography of Ockham. 

These are followed by The Tractatus 

De Successivis. Published in 1943, this is the 

very first book published by The Franciscan 

Institute. 

Pb 978-1-57659-292-2 $24.95 

Petrus Thomae QUODLIBET 

edited by M. Rachel Hooper, OSF, Phd and 

Eligius M. Buytaert, OFM, STD 

The Spanish Franciscan and early Scotist, 

Petrus Thomae, was born c. 1280 and died c. 

1350. He worked mainly, if not exclusively, 

in Barcelona. He was a follower and admirer 

of John Duns Scotus. Whether he studied 

under Scotus in Paris or under Peter Aureoli 

in Toulouse has been a matter of academic 

dispute. Critical Latin Edition. 

Pb 978-1-57659-055-3 $24.95 

St. John Damascene DIALECTICA Version 

of Robert Grosseteste 

edited by Owen A. Colligan, OFM 

Saint John of Damascus, also known as John 

Damascene, (c. 676 – 4 December 749) was a 

Syrian Christian monk and priest. Born and 

raised in Damascus, he died at his monastery, 

Mar Saba, near Jerusalem. A polymath 

whose fields of interest and contribution 

included law, theology, philosophy, and 

music, before being ordained, he served as a Chief Administrator 

to the Muslim caliph of Damascus, wrote works expounding the 

Christian faith, and composed hymns which are still in everyday 

use in Eastern Christian monasteries throughout the world. The 

Catholic Church regards him as a Doctor of the Church, often 

referred to as the Doctor of the Assumption due to his writings on 

the Assumption of Mary. 

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Peter Aureoli: Scriptum Super Primum 

Sententiarum. 

Dist. II-VIII 

edited by Eligius M. Buytaert, OFM 

Peter Aureoli, a Franciscan Friar from 

Aquitania, lectured on the Sentences of Peter 

Lombard both in Toulouse and Paris, was 

elected Provincial of Aquitania and consecrated 

Bishop of Aix by John XXII. The 

Scriptum is a monumental work, which the 

author dedicated to his friend and protector John XXII. The present 

edition is based on the copy written for the Pope. 

1956: 1053 p. (Sold As Is) 

Pb 978-1-57659-119-0 $24.95 

Francis of Assisi: Heritage and Heirs Eight 

Centuries Later 

by Thaddée Matura, OFM, Translated by Paul 

Lachance, OFM. 

In this thought-provoking book Thaddée Matura 

offers a new way of looking at how the Franciscan 

tradition was adapted and contemporized 

during the centuries. In a clear and accessible 

style he shows how the Franciscan Family has 

gotten to the stage it now enjoys and shows how liberating history 

can be and is. 

2010: 109 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-214-4 $19.95 

The Daily Labor of the Early Franciscans 

by David Flood, OFM 

In his early studies Flood focused on the history 

of the brotherhood with special emphasis on the 

development of the Early Rule. Eventually, the 

social structures of early Franciscan life led to 

the economics of the early Franciscan movement 

and the importance of work in the life 

of Francis and his companions. Told from the vantage point of a 

historian, Flood leads the reader through his analysis of the early 

movement. 

2010: 160 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-156-7 $19.95 

The Early Franciscan Movement (1205-1239): 

History, Sources and Hermeneutics 

by Michael F. Cusato, OFM 

This volume gathers together and updates 

previously published essays on topics related 

to the contested story of early Franciscan history 

(1205-1239), treating subjects such as the 

Franciscan approach to power and authority, 

the attitude of Francis towards Islam and the 

Crusades, the Privilege of Poverty, and the connection between 

the two versions of the Epistola ad fideles. By special arrangement 

with the Italian publisher, Centro Italiano. Distributed Title - Not 

Available for resale to trade distributors. 2009: 460 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-223-6 $90.00 

Franciscan Wealth: From Voluntary Poverty to 

Market Society 

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. 

2009: 209 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-153-6 $19.95 

francis and the early franciscan movement 

Francis of Assisi in the Sources and Writings 

by Roberto Rusconi, translated by Nancy Celaschi, 

OSF 

The object of this work is to give readers the 

tools to gain a better understanding of the man 

from Assisi. It contains a reprint of a biographical 

sketch prepared for the Dizionario biografico 

degli Italiani, in which the story of Francis’s life 

was presented as succinctly as possible. Following 

this is a collection of texts whose purpose is to lead the reader 

back to the sources that serve as a basis for a historical reconstruction. 

2008: 128 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-152-9 $19.95 

The Stigmata of 

Francis of Assisi 

essays by Jacques Dalarun, Michael F. Cusato, 

OFM, Carla Salvati 

These essays offer critical examinations of the 

historical event. They present contemporary 

interpretations of how the stigmata narration 

developed and its meaning for our time. 

2006: 113p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-140-6 $24.95 

Respectfully Yours: Signed and Sealed, Francis 

of Assisi. Aspects of His Authorship and Focuses 

of His Spirituality 

Edith van den Goorbergh, OSC and Theodore 

Zweerman, OFM 

Translated from the Dutch. 

Through a meticulous reading of his writing, 

one can discover Francis the Mystic. The 

authors pay full attention to what Francis has to 

say and pay special attention to texts from the 

liturgy of Francis’s time. 

2001: 435 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-178-9 $29.95 

The Admonitions of St. Francis: Sources and 

Meanings 


This text offers a fresh translation of each admonition, 

parallel texts previously noted by other 

scholars or newly uncovered by Karris, as well as 

comments on each admonition verse by verse. 

The reader is led into Francis’s “theological workshop” 

where it becomes clear how Francis imprinted 

his own logo on the spiritual traditions he inherited. 

1999: 316 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-166-6 $19.95 


francis and the early franciscan movement 

Francis of Assisi: The Message in His Writings 

by Thaddée Matura, OFM 

Although Francis had no formal training in 

theology, he has left us a profound yet warmly 

human vision of the Christian life. In this study, 

the author breaks with custom and focuses not 

on the personality of Francis but on his message 

as we find it in his writings: a rich, balanced 

message that teaches a vibrant spirituality centered 

on God and humanity. 

1997; reprint 2004: 208 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-127-7 $20.00 

Franciscan Poverty 

by Malcolm Lambert, Revised Edition, 1998. 

An assessment of the rise and fall within the 

Franciscan Order of the doctrine of the absolute 

poverty of Christ and the apostles. Covering the 

decades between 1210-1323, Lambert describes 

the doctrine as found in the mind of St. Francis 

and moves to Pope John XXII’s condemnation 

of one particular form of the doctrine. 

1998: 311 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-001-0 $14.95 

We Saw Brother Francis 

by Francis de Beer 

De Beer does not aim to examine the saint’s life 

from testimonies written once that life on earth 

had been concluded; rather he inquires how 

those who knew Francis first hand encountered 

him while he was still alive. He attempts to discover 

how Francis’s contemporaries experienced 

him close up. How did they criticize him? How 

did they imagine him? 

1983: 145 p. 

Hc 978-0-8199-0803-2 $9.00 

The Writings of Francis of Assisi: Letters and 

Prayers - volume 1 

Letters and Prayers features the scholarly work of 

Luigi Pellegrini, Jean-François Godet-Calogeras, 

Michael W. Blastic, Michael F. Cusato, Jay M. 

Hammond, PhD, and Laurent Gallant. 

2011: 336 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-230-4 $29.95 

Hc 978-1-57659-293-9 $34.95 

The Writings of Francis of Assisi: 

Rules, Testament and Admonitions - volume 2 

Rules, Testament and Admonitions contains essays by 

William J. Short, Michael W. Blastic, Jay M. Hammond, 

PhD, and J.A. Wayne Hellmann. 

2011: 336 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-232-8 $29.95 

Hc 978-1-57659-294-6 $34.95 

From St. Francis to Giotto 

Vincent Moleta 

This book was not meant for the specialist. It 

brings together and reconsiders some of the most 

familiar expressions of early Franciscan culture, 

while it merely touches on related questions such 

as the debate over poverty and the influence of 

Joachim of Fiore. Moleta’s aim was to show St. 

Francis through the eyes of Italian writers and 

painters active during the century that followed his death, and to 

outline his place in the native culture that flowered in Italy from the 

mid-thirteenth to mid-fourteenth centuries. 

1984: 120 p. 

Hc 978-0-8199-0853-7 $15.00 

First Encounter With Francis of Assisi 

by Damien Vorreux 

translated by Jean-François Godet-Calogeras 

Damien Vorreux, who died in 1988, was a French 

scholar who began to publish French translations 

of the early Franciscan documents in the 1950s. His 

deep knowledge of those documents and his understanding 

of Francis were the inspiration for this 

classic presentation of Francis of Assisi. Published in French in 1973 

and first offered in English by Franciscan Press in 1979, Jean-François 

Godet-Calogeras – who worked with Vorreux – combines the latest 

scholarship with his own translation in offering this new edition of 

First Encounter with Francis of Assisi. This short text is an excellent 

introduction to Francis and the world in which he lived. 

2012: 112 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-337-0 $14.95 

Release Date: June 2012 

Francis and Islam 

J. Hoeberichts 

In the first part of this study, Dr. Hoeberichts 

goes back to Francis’s “Earlier Rule”, the Regula 

non bullata of 1221. Firmly rooted in historical 

scholarship, Hoeberichts’ book recreates 

the milieu of Francis and his first brothers and 

brings new insights to contemporary issues of 

interreligious dialogue. 

1997: 316 p. 

Pb 978-0-8199-0980-0 $14.95 

St. Francis of Assisi 

Raoul Manselli 

Attempting to grasp the central and inspiring 

motive of Francis’s life and work, Manselli 

depicts the little man of Assisi struggling to step 

as faithfully as possible in the footprints of the 

model, Jesus Christ. At this juncture of history 

when religious orders have been directed to their 

original charisms, Raoul Manselli, in depicting Francis of Assisi 

reminds all Franciscans of the noble ideals upon which has been 

built the Order of Francis of Assisi. 

1985: 388 p. Hc 978-0-8199-0880-3 $24.95 

St. Francis of Assisi 

John R. H. Moorman 

Moorman writes in his preface to this terrific, short 

biography of Francis of Assisi that Francis has 

something to say to all people. He was a mystic, 

poet, and a man of great courage. All these things 

were important, and all combine to make him a 

very remarkable man. But perhaps the thing about 

him which appeals to us most today is the challenge which he threw 

down to the standards and values of the ordinary, secular life of man. 

1987: 118 p. 

Pb 978-0-8199-0904-6 $4.95 

St. Francis and the Song of Brotherhood and 

Sisterhood 

Eric Doyle, OFM 

In 1981 the author wrote: “The Canticle of 

Brother Sun is a charter of peace . . . [t]he most 

basic meaning of peace is being at home with all 

creatures, loving all life, reverencing all matter. 

1997: 244 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-003-4 $9.95 

The Birth of a Movement 

David Flood, OFM and Thadee Matura, OFM 

The Birth of a Movement presents an initiation 

to the study of an important writing of Francis; 

the rule called the “first” or “without bull” (non 

bullata). It proposes to make this writing of St. 

Francis more accessible, not only to the Franciscan 

family, but to a wider public. 

1975: 151 p. 

Hc 978-0-8199-0567-3 $6.95 

Paradise Restored 

Jan Hoeberichts 

The Salutation of the Virtues can be characterized 

as a poetic reminder or even a poetic testament 

which St. Francis composes so that the 

brothers may take to heart and never forget the 

virtues, God’s holy forces, that are to shape the 

brotherhood in its continuous struggle to build 

an alternative society against the forces of evil 

that are threatening the brotherhood and its original ideals. 

2004: 276 p. 

Pb 978-0-8199-1008-0 $14.95 

St. Francis and the Third Order: The Franciscan 

and pre-Franciscan Penitential Movement 

by Raffaele Pazzelli, TOR 

The publication of this text was the first time an 

English-language history of the Third Order was 

made available to Third Order Regulars and 

the Secular Franciscan Order - who combined 

comprise The Order of Penance. 

1989: 256 p. 

Pb 978-0-8199-0953-4 $14.95 

St. Francis of Assisi: Essays in Commemoration 

by Maurice W. Sheehan, OFM Cap 

A selection of a dozen essays on St. Francis 

from great twentieth century theologians and 

historians commemorating the eighth centenary 

of the birth of St. Francis. This book is 

both a good characterization of the Spirituals 

and an interesting starting point for the study of 

Capuchin reform. 

1982: 194 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-063-8 $10.00 

The Misadventure of Francis of Assisi 

by Jacques Dalarun 

An English translation of La malaventura 

di Francesco d’Assisi: per un uso storico delle 

leggende francescane. 

This publication will certainly generate lively 

discussion and a deeper understanding of the 

Franciscan phenomenon. In a tone that is 

profoundly personal and to the point, Dalarun 

offers to serve as a methodological guide in the renewed interest 

in the famous “Franciscan Question”: how best to read, interpret 

and relate the early biographies to the historical Francis. 

2002: 296 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-181-9 $24.95 

Francis of Assisi and the Feminine 


An English translation of Francesco: un passagio. 

Donna e donne negli scritti e nelle leggende di 

Francesco d’Assisi. 

Jacques Dalarun delivers a tight analysis of all 

the passages in the writings of Francis and his 

biographers that, in any way whatsoever, touch 

on aspects and instances of his attitude towards 

women and femininity, or even better, use categories that can be 

defined as feminine. 

2006: 375 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-139-0 $34.95 

Francis of Assisi and Power 


An English translation of François d’Assise ou le 

pouvoir en question. 

In this presentation, it is not the question of 

poverty that holds center stage as the cause of 

the controversies within the early Franciscan 

fraternity.Rather, paradoxically, it is the question 

of Francis’s humility. 

2007: 237 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-142-0 $34.95 


clare and the poor sisters 

The Life and Miracles of Saint Margaret of Cortona 

translated by Thomas Renna, PhD and Shannon Larson 

Saint Margaret of Cortona is the light of the Third 

Order of Francis. Such is the theme of the most 

extensive biography of any Franciscan Tertiary in 

the Middle Ages. Margaret’s extraordinary career 

brings the historian closer to the early development 

of the Franciscans and the Order of Penance; it tells 

us much about how women saints were described, and about how 

civic cults of saints emerged. Another window, although a smaller one, 

opens to the tensions between the Franciscan Community and the 

Spiritual Franciscans before the split prior to Pope John XXII. 

2012: 400 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-301-1 $44.95 

Pb 978-1-57659-207-6 $29.95 


Colette of Corbie (1381-1447): Learning and 

Holiness 

by Elisabeth Lopez, Translated by Joanna Waller 

Released for the first time in English. Lopez’s 

book, originally published in French in 1994, is 

a serious study of Colette and her reform movement 

of the Poor Clare Sisters. 

2010: 640 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-217-5 $50.00 

Ebook 978-1-57659-219-9 $24.95 

Clare and the Poor Sisters in the Thirteenth 

Century 

Maria Pia Alberzoni. Ed. by Jean François 

Godet-Calogeras 

A new English-language resource on Clare and the 

Poor Ladies of San Damiano. Alberzoni provides a 

careful, contextual reading of the sources surrounding 

the foundation of the group living with 

Clare in the decades of change after the death of Francis. 

2004: 241 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-195-6 $22.00 

Clare of Assisi: The Lady 

translated by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM Cap 

Provides new translations of Clare’s writings and 

related primary sources, new introductions and 

revisions from earlier editions, as well as previously 

unpublished documents to chronicle the 

life of Saint Clare. 

2006: 472 p. 

Hc 978-1-56548-220-3 $24.95 

Writings of Clare of Assisi: Studies in Early 

Franciscan Sources Volume 3 

The Writings of Clare of Assisi presents the latest 

scholarship by Ingrid Peterson, Lezlie Knox, 

Michael W. Blastic and Jean-François Godet- 

Calogeras. 

2011: 144p. 

Pb 9781-57659-233-5 $19.95 

Hc 978-1-57659-295-3 $24.95 

In the Footsteps of St. Clare: 

A Pilgrim’s Guide Book 

Ramona Miller, OSF 

This book is a guide to the spirituality of Saint 

Clare of Assisi at the places where she lived 

and where her body lies. Her courageous exit 

from her noble home to a life of poverty at San 

Damiano has a timeless message for Franciscans 

and for those who yearn to discover God. 

1993: 124 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-070-6 $14.95 

Clare of Assisi: A Medieval and Modern 

Woman: Clarefest Selected Papers 

Ingrid Peterson, OSF, ed. 

This volume, from Clarefest ’93 honoring the 

800th anniversary of Clare’s birth, investigates 

a broad spectrum of Clare’s life and times, plus 

some contemporary applications of her spiritual 

inspiration. 

1996: 285 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-000-3 $8.00 

Clare Among Her Sisters 

by René Charles Dhont, OFM 

In seven chapters, Father Dhont analyzes the 

view of the evolution of the Franciscan movement 

in the three Orders, and a reflection on 

the challenges of contemporary Franciscan life. 

1987: 174 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-068-3 $12.00 

Clare’s Letters to Agnes: Texts and Sources 

by Joan Mueller 

The four letters attributed to Clare of Assisi and 

addressed to Agnes of Prague are documents of 

primary importance for the study of the early 

Franciscan movement and, in particular, for the 

history of early Franciscan women. 

2001: 270 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-176-5 $14.95 

The First Franciscan Woman: Clare of Assisi 

& Her Form of Life 

by Sr. Margaret Carney, OSF. Clare of Assisi 

(1193-1253) was the most important woman 

who emerged within the unfolding history of 

the movement inspired by Francis of Assisi. She 

joined him in his search for a way to incarnate 

the powerful message of the Gospel of Christ in 

a situation of economic, social and ecclesiastical 

reformation. She has been revered through the centuries as his 

disciple, friend, and co-worker. 

1993: 261 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-343-1 $24.95 

In the Name of Saint Francis: A History of the 

Friars Minor and Franciscanism until the Early 

Sixteenth Century 

by Grado Giovanni Merlo, translated by Raphael 

Bonnano, OFM and Robert J. Karris, OFM 

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. 

2009: 592 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-155-0 $49.95 

Angelo Clareno: A Chronicle or History of the 

Seven Tribulations of the Order of Brothers Minor 

edited and translated by David Burr and E. Randolph 

Daniel 

For the first time, a complete English version of the 

Historia de Septem Tribulationum Ordinis Minorum 

by Angelo of Clareno. Introduction and translation 

by David Burr and E. Randolph Daniel. Based 

upon two recent Latin texts by Giovanni Boccali 

and Orietta Rossini. This very significant contribution to Franciscan 

studies cannot be ignored! 

2005: 242 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-198-7 $19.95 

The History of Franciscan Theology 

edited by Kenan Osborne, OFM 

One cannot enter the medieval world of the 13th 

century wearing 21st century glasses. The authors 

writing in the volume make every effort to 

see what the Franciscan Schoolmen saw; to hear 

what they heard; to think as they thought. Thus 

foundational Franciscan insights and intuitions 

are offered for consideration in the contemporary 

search for meaning. 

1994: 345 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-032-1 $35.00 

History of the Franciscan Order 

by J.R.H. Moorman 

Moorman tells the story of the friars in the first 

three centuries of their existence. He highlights the 

impact they had on society, records the problems 

and disagreements within the order and indicates 

their contribution to the life of the world and of the 

Church. 

1988: 641 p. 

Hc 978-0-8199-0921-3 $25.00 

franciscan history 

“Peace and Good” in America, A History of the 

Holy Name Province, Order of the Friars Minor 

1850s to the present 

by Joseph M. White 

In carrying forward the province’s tradition of 

historical writing, the following history aims to 

place the story of Holy Name Province and its 

antecedents in the larger context of Church and 

society in America and in other places where the 

friars served. The historical understanding of virtually every relevant 

issue in American Catholic life has advanced markedly since 

publication of the works of Callahan, Hammon, and Angelo. There 

are new approaches to dealing with historical truth in Catholic historical 

works. 

2004: 521 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-196-3 $45.00 

St. Anthony Doctor of the Church 

Sophronius Clasen 

Clasen produces an in depth biography of St. 

Anthony of Padua, piecing together the missing 

attributes of Anthony’s life through descriptive 

accounts and old biographies. Clasen traces Anthony 

through Morocco, Sicily, Northern Italy, 

and France to his death in Padua. 

1973: 116 p. 

Pb 978-0-8199-0458-4 $4.95 

Origins of the Franciscan Order 

Cajetan Esser, OFM 

A study of the problems of the early history 

of the Franciscan Order by one of the most 

important scholars of the Order, this book seeks 

to contribute to a stronger historical understanding 

of the work of St. Francis by looking into the 

debates and theories surrounding the formation 

of the Order, and the transformation of the 

“original ideals of St. Francis.” Translated from the German. 

1970: 310 p. 

Pb 978-0-81990-408-2 $15.00 

Retrieving a Living Tradition – Angelina of 

Montegiove: Franciscan, Tertiary, Beguine 

Roberta Agnes McKelvie, OSF 

An examination of the story of Angelina and 

the religious movement associated with her 

from within the Franciscan tradition, the author 

reads the source texts with a hermeneutic of 

suspicion and retrieval. The result provides a 

greatly expanded and revised perspective on 

the historical significance of Angelina as a Franciscan tertiary and 

Italian Beguine. 

1997: 212 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-131-4 $18.00 


franciscan history franciscan studies & faith formation 

Friars Minor in China 

Arnulf Camps, OFM, and Pat McCloskey, OFM, eds. 

A study of the life and work of the Friars Minor 

in China’s Middle Kingdom during seven centuries, 

this work is based on 1,110 pages of scientific 

monographs by Bernward Willeke, OFM, and 

Domenico Gandolfi, OFM. The text concentrates 

on the years 1925-55. 

1996: 316 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-002-7 $19.95 

The Leonine Union of the Order of Friars Minor 

1897 

Maurice Carmody, OFM Over time, efforts by 

members of his Order to live life after the manner 

of St. Francis resulted in a diversity which 

ultimately served the Order poorly. Carmody’s 

work recounts the struggle to unify four different 

Franciscan families. 

1994: 234 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-084-3 $14.95 

Friars Minor in Ireland from Their Arrival to 1400 

Francis Cotter, OFM 

This study situates the fascinating story of the 

foundation of the Friars Minor in Ireland within 

the historical context of Irish life in the thirteenth 

and fourteenth centuries. 

1994: 284 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-083-6 $9.95 

History of The Third Order Regular Rule: 

A Source Book 

edited by Margaret Carney, OSF, Jean François 

Godet-Calogeras, and Suzanne M. Kush, CSSF. 

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. 

2008: 512 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-149-99 $34.95 

A Poor Man’s Legacy: An Anthology of 

Franciscan Poverty 

edited by Cyprian J. Lynch 

Although this anthology of Franciscan poverty 

contains 187 selections grouped under 149 entries, 

it is no more than a modest sample of extant writings 

on the subject. Yet, because it includes examples 

of a wide variety of literary forms, authored by 

members of all branches of the Franciscan family 

representing ten language groups and all eight centuries of Franciscan 

history, it clearly demonstrates the continuity of the Franciscan 

tradition of poverty. 

1989: 760 p. Pb 978-1-57659-069-0 $19.99 

I Know Christ 

by Gratien Badin, OFM Cap 

translated by Paul J. Oligny, OFM 

Translation of Saint Francois d’Assise, sa peronnalite, 

sa spiritualite, by Gratien Badin, OFM, 

Cap. The title of the English translation of this 

book is taken from one of the sayings of Saint 

Francis of Assisi: I know Christ, poor and crucified. 

1988: 80 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-094-2 $5.95 

The Franciscan Spirituals & the Capuchin 

Reform 

by Thaddeus MacVicar, OFM Cap 

This book is both a good characterization of the 

Spirituals and an interesting starting point for 

the study of the Capuchin Reform 

1986: 176 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-086-7 $9.95 

Franciscan Concept of Mission in the High 

Middle Ages 

by E. Randolph Daniel 

An examination of missionary work by Franciscans 

in the High Middle Ages. 

1992: 178 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-065-2 $9.95 

Medieval Franciscan Houses 

by John R. H. Moorman 

This work provides an alphabetical listing of the 

4500 establishments, approximately, for Friars 

and Clares from the time of St. Francis until the 

division of the Order in 1517. 

1983: 710 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-079-9 $39.95 

Build With Living Stones 

edited by Sr. Daria Mitchell 

Using the work of a commission focused upon 

updating and contemporizing the source 

material, this new edition of Build with Living 

Stones offers those an indispensable resource 

guide for Franciscan reflection around the 

themes of life and work. In 14 separate units, 

Build with Living Stones offers Franciscan insight 

into contemporary issues such as the economy, the environment, 

peace-making and what it means to live well in a pluralistic 

world. This work is an excellent text for groups to use as an 

introduction to Franciscan thought. 

2012: 176 pg 

Pb 978-1-57659-134-5 $14.95 

Release Date: August 2012 

Clare and Francis: O Let the Faithful 

People Sing 

Robert Hutmacher, OFM 

A collection of early Franciscan melodies, 

chants, and music which has been translated 

and revised for use in contemporary settings. 

Includes 2 casette tapes 

1993: 112 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-071-3 $9.95 

Franciscan Christology 

edited by Damian McElrath 

This anthology brings together a number of 

Christological selections, from notable Franciscan 

writers ranging from St. Francis to St. 

Bernardine of Siena. It shows the variety in 

Franciscan Christology as it investigates speculative 

theology, historical perspective, spirituality 

and pastoral concerns. 

1997: 240 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-040-9 $14.95 

Franciscan Solitude 

edited by André Cirino, OFM and Josef Raischl, 

This collection of essays is the fruit of determined 

exploration into the profound importance 

of the eremitical tradition in Franciscan 

life. It offers food for thought with respect to 

meaningful paradigms for contemporary expressions 

of the hunger for solitude. 

1995: 370 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-006-5 $18.00 

Franciscans and Healthcare: What is the Future? 

edited by Elise Saggau, OSF 

In 1999, the Franciscan Center of the Washington 

Theological Union gathered experts to 

discuss the role of contemporary Franciscans 

in the ministry of healthcare. The talks were 

designed with a view both to spirituality and to 

maintaining Franciscan identity. At a time when 

Franciscan institutions are facing critical decisions, it is important 

to remember the tradition that brought them to where they are, 

the values that make them what they are, and the spirituality that 

identifies who they are. The contributions made here are a step in 

this direction. 

2001: 128 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-177-2 $14.95 

Franciscans in Urban Ministry 

edited by Roberta A. McKelvie, OSF 

Assuming that the lives of Francis and his early 

followers remain a credible model for engaging 

in a process of urban evangelization, this text 

explores some salient features of the Franciscan 

story and considers contemporary challenges 

to life and ministry in the city. Contributors 

include Dominic Monti, OFM, Patricia Keefe, 

OSF, Joseph Chinnici, OFM, and James A. Wallace, CSR 

2002: 152 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-182-6 $14.95 

From Intuition to Institution: The Franciscans 

Theophile Desbonnets 

A religious order isn’t ever born completely 

organized in the spirit of its founder. It begins as 

an idea with imprecise limits, and unformulated 

intuition, recognized one day for what it is by the 

founder and his first disciples. Thus it was with 

the Franciscans. Through what collective effort 

did it shift from being Francis’s intuition to being 

the Order of Friars Minor? And what remains of the intuition at 

this point of the evolution? This is what From Intuition to Institution 

intends to tell. 

1988: 166 p. 

Hc 978-0-8199-0913-8 $12.00 


Franciscan studies & Faith Formation 

Beyond the Text: Franciscan Art and 

Construction of Religion 

edited by Xavier Seubert, OFM and Oleg 

Bychkov, PhD 

A pioneering study of the art of the Franciscan 

order that shows how Franciscan theological, 

liturgical, pastoral and missionary strategies 

were formulated and implemented visually, not 

by words but by images, by using contextualization 

and introducing gender and culture specific visual traits. 

The essays in this volume probe the art and visual culture of the 

early Franciscan movement to reveal insights and nuances of the 

life and power of this revolutionary phase of the Catholic religion. 

2012: 240 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-340-0 $65.00 

Publication Date November 2012 

Golden Words – The Sayings of Brother Giles 

of Assisi 

by Nello Vian. 

The name Giles is the common English form 

of the Latin Aegidius. During the Middle Ages 

there was widespread European devotion to a St. 

Giles who died in 712. Our Giles had two contemporary 

namesakes who were later beatified. 

But only Blessed Giles of Assisi has left such 

“wise saws and modern instances” as the Golden Sayings. 

1990: 159 p. 

Pb 978-0-8199-0040-1 $7.95 

In Solitude and Dialogue: Contemporary 

Franciscans Theologize 

edited by Anthony M. Carrozzo, OFM 

Seven articles explore different aspects of the 

contemplative experience of contemporary 

Franciscan theology. The foundation for the essays 

is Francis’s Rule for Hermitages; the texts 

emerged from the desire of mature Franciscans 

to describe the call to pray in community and 

share their own intellectual journeys. Contributors include R. 

Duffy, OFM; J. Mueller, OSF; J. Burkhard, OFM Conv.; and G. 

Ühlein, OSF. 

2000: 185 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-167-3 $14.95 

The Teacher of His Heart 

Norbert Nguyên-Van Khanh, OFM 

There was a passion, an intense energy of love that 

drove Francis to center his entire life in Christ. 

Christ was, indeed, the teacher of his heart. This 

book concentrates on the Christological dimension 

of Francis’s thought seen through the prism 

of his writings and against the background of the 

world in which he lived. 

1994: 253 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-066-9 $14.95 

That Others May Know and Love: Essays in 

Honor of Zachary Hayes, OFM 

edited by Michael F. Cusato, OFM and F. Edward 

Coughlin, OFM 

This collection of essays honoring Zachary Hayes 

reflects his theological interests as well as the many 

ways he has stirred the theological imagination 

and encouraged others on their journey into God. 

Contributors include Bernard McGinn; David 

Burr; Ingrid Peterson, OSF.; David Tracy and Girard Etzkorn. 

1997: 342 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-130-7 $14.95 

Rule of the Secular Franciscan Order: Origins, 

Development, Interpretation 

Robert M. Stewart 

The Secular Franciscan Order received a new rule 

in 1978 from Pope Paul VI which was intended 

to give a new impetus to the Order so that it 

might flourish vigorously. This book examines 

the impact of that new rule while looking at the 

Franciscan lay movement from its origin, earliest 

expression and later transformation. 

1991: 462 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-238-0 $29.95 

Francis, The Incomparable Saint 

Joseph Lortz 

Originally published in German, this study was 

immediately recognized as a major contribution 

to the world’s understanding of Francis. This 

translation explains the Spirit of St. Francis to the 

English-speaking world. 

1986: 128 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-067-6 $5.95 

Spirit and Life: Essays on Contemporary Franciscanism serves as 

a vehicle for the publication of papers presented at various conferences, 

symposia, and/or workshops that seek to bring the Franciscan 

tradition into creative dialogue with contemporary theology, 

philosophy, and history. 

Volume 17 

Her Bright Merits: Essays Honoring Ingrid J. 

Peterson, OSF 

Ingrid Peterson, O.S.F., is distinguished in the 

field of franciscan studies by her work on Clare 

of Assisi and the women of the early franciscan 

movement. This book, a collection of essays on 

those topics by several of the best scholars in the 

field, is offered in tribute to Peterson and her 

academic and scholarly contributions to the study of Clare and the 

women of the early movement. 

Divided into four parts, part one introduces Peterson, part two 

takes us into the heart of studies of Franciscan women, part three 

focuses on how Peterson came to the study of medieval history 

and the volume concludes with Peterson’s own summation of what 

she leaves for us to do in this field. 


Regis Armstrong, Margaret Carney, Felicity Dorsett, Jean-François 

Godet-Calogeras, Pacelli Millane, Ramona Miller, Darlene Pryds, 

Joy Schroder, Diane Tomkinson, Paul Lachance, Margaret Klotz, 

Beth Lynn, Mary Meany and Alison More 

2012: 286 

Pb 978-1-57659-312-7 $24.95 

Volume 16 

Words Made Flesh: Essays Honoring 

Kenan B. Osborne, OFM 

Written by several of the finest scholars in the 

modern Franciscan world – Joseph Chinnici, 

Bishop John Cummins, William J. Short, †Allan B. 

Wolter, Zachary Hayes, †Regis A. Duffy, Michael D. 

Guinan, Johannes B. Freyer, Antonie Vos and Mary 

Beth Ingham – these scholars and their different 

approaches to sacraments, ecclesiology, Christology, and anthropology 

testify to Kenan Osborne’s academic life, his plumbing of our 

theological tradition for new insights, and his wide breadth of learning 

and interests. 

2011: 208 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-224-3 $19.95 

Volume 15 

Dying, As A Franciscan 

Many of us within the Franciscan Family of the 

21st Century – friars, sisters, seculars and all those 

associated in any way with the Poverello of Assisi 

– find ourselves surrounded by those within our 

own communities and families who are in need of 

similar accompaniment and companionship as we 

walk the road toward the fullness of life. And each 

one of us, one day, will walk the same path ourselves. 

2011: 118 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-221-2 $19.95 

spirit and life series 

Volume 14 

Rule of the Friars Minor, 1209-2009: Historical 

Perspectives, Lived Realities 

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. 

2010: 180 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-212-0 $19.95 

Volume 13 

Mirroring One Another, Reflecting the 

Divine: The Franciscan-Muslim Journey 

Into God 

Presentations from the 8th Franciscan Forum, 

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. 

2009: 128 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-157-4 $19.95 

Volume 12 

Daring to Embrace the Other: Franciscans and 

Muslims in Dialogue 

This volume contains presentations by Michael F. 

Cusato, OFM, Michael D. Calabria, OFM, Robert 

Lentz, Irfan A. Omar and Madge Karecki originally 

given at the 7th Franciscan Forum held at 

Colorado Springs, June 2007. 

2008: 154 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-151-2 $19.95 

Volume 11 

An Unencumbered Heart: A Tribute to 

Clare of Assisi 1253-2003 

Jean-François Godet-Calogeras and Roberta 

McKelvie, OSF, eds. 

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. 

2004: 80 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-192-5 $12.95 


spirit and life series 

Volume 10 

True Followers of Justice: Identity, Insertion, 

and Itinerancy among the Early Franciscans 

Michael F. Cusato, OFM, and Keith Warner, 

OFM; Elise Saggau, OSF, ed. 

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. 

2000: 160 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-171-0 $9.95 

Volume 9 

Islam and Franciscanism: A Dialogue 

Daniel Dwyer, OFM, and Hugh Hines, OFM, 

eds. 

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 lived. 

2000: 148 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-169-7 $9.95 

Volume 8 

Franciscan Studies: The Difference Women are 

Making 

Margaret Carney, OSF and Elise Saggau, OSF, 

eds. 

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. 

1999: 132 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-164-2 $9.95 

Volume 7 

Franciscan Leadership in Ministry: Foundations 

in History, Theology, and Spirituality 

Anthony Carrozzo, OFM, Vincent Cushing, 

OFM, and Kenneth Himes, OFM, eds. 

A collection of essays originally presented in 

March, 1993, at a seminar in Denver, 

sponsored by the Holy Name Province of the 

Friars Minor. 

1997: 245 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-132-1 $9.95 

Volume 6 

Mission in the Franciscan Tradition 

Anselm Moons, OFM and Flavian Walsh, OFM, 

eds.,1994. 

Collected essays reflect upon the contemporary 

value of the concrete missionary method of 

Francis and his followers. 

1995: 246 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-038-6 $9.95 

Volume 5 

Refounding in the Franciscan Tradition 

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. 

1994: 135 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-037-9 $9.95 

Volume 4 

The Care of Souls and the Rhetoric of Moral 

Theology in Bonaventure and Thomas 

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. 

1993: 80 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-034-8 $9.95 

Volume 3 

Ethical Method of John Duns Scotus 

by Thomas A. Shannon and Mary Beth Ingham, 

CSJ, eds. 

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. 

1992: 144 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-039-3 $9.95 

Volume 2 

The Franciscan Charism in Higher Education 

Roberta A. McKelvie, OSF, ed. 

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. 

1992: 156 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-036-2 $9.95 

The Franciscan Heritage Series is initiated by the Commission on the Retrieval 

of the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition (CFIT). The series will, over time, 

encompass topics such as Christian Anthropology, Ecclesiology, Scriptural 

Themes, Evangelization, History, the Natural Sciences, the Arts and other 

areas of contemporary concern. Embedded in this vision and communicated 

in the Intellectual Tradition are implications for the world of politics, social 

relations, family life and daily human existence. 

Knowledge for Love: Franciscan Science as the 

Pursuit of Wisdom 

Franciscan Heritage Series Volume 8 

by Keith Douglass Warner, OFM 

This essay extends the retrieval of the Franciscan 

intellectual tradition into the sciences by presenting 

the vocation and work of three Franciscan scientists 

Friar Bartholomew, Friar Roger Bacon, and Friar 

Bernardino de Sahagún. In the Franciscan tradition, 

learning about nature helps one grow in wisdom, and thus Franciscan 

science is knowledge for love. This essay argues that the retrieval of our 

Franciscan intellectual tradition could and should include the sciences. 

2012: 86 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-361-5 $12.00 


Women of the Streets, Early Franciscan Women 

and Their Mendicant Vocation 

by Darleen Pryds 

This book about Mendicant women outside the 

cloister is unique in its content. Rose of Viterbo, 

Angela of Foligno, Margaret of Cortona, and Sancia, 

Queen of Naples, were all born within the first century 

of the Franciscan Order. As women who pursued 

their religious vocation of voluntary poverty, itinerancy, and preaching 

outside of monastic walls – in the streets and in their homes – they 

could very well be called the first generation of mendicant women. 

2010: 96 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-206-9 $12.00 

Rejoicing in the Works of the Lord: Beauty in the 

Franciscan Tradition 

by Mary Beth Ingham, CSJ 

The special focus of this study is the appreciation 

of beauty in the writing of two great theorists of 

the tradition, Bonaventure of Bagnoregio and John 

Duns Scotus. 

2009: 96 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-205-2 $12.00 

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. 

2008: 96 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-204-5 $12.00 

franciscan heritage series 

The Franciscan Vision and the Gospel of John: The 

San Damiano Crucifix, Francis and John, Creation 

and John 

by Michael D. Guinan, OFM 

The San Damiano Crucifix, meditation on the 

Word of God in Scripture and the evangelical life of 

Francis and Clare are at the heart of the Franciscan 

vision. Professor Guinan shows us the significance of 

the Gospel of John as a directive force, particularly 

in its key images of Word, Lamb, Good Shepherd and the One Who 

Washes Feet. A CD with a power point presentation on the images of 

the San Damiano Crucifix is included. 

2006: 80 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-203-0 $12.00 

The Franciscan View of the Human Person: Some 

Central Elements 

by Dawn M. Nothwehr, OSF 

This brief volume discusses several of the central 

elements of human persons as found within the 

Franciscan theological tradition. As that tradition 

developed over the years, the intuitions and insights 

of Saints Francis and Clare of Assisi concerning 

the human person were further developed and/or 

restated in language better understood by the people of a particular 

era. This text provides insight into that development. 

2005: 96 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-202-1 $12.00 

A Franciscan View of Creation: Learning to Live 

in a Sacramental World 

by Ilia Delio, OSF 

The purpose of this volume is to elucidate in greater 

detail the theology of creation as a foundational starting 

point for contemporary belief and practice. The 

author traces the theme of God and creation from the 

time of the conversion of Francis of Assisi through 

the first century of Franciscan life and thought, which 

culminated in the work of John Duns Scotus. 

2003: 80 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-201-4 $12.00 

The Franciscan Intellectual Tradition: Tracing Its 

Origins and Identifying Its Central Components 

by Kenan Osborne, OFM 

The purpose of this volume is to present some 

general and major themes of the theological formulation 

of the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition as 

these themes intersect with contemporary perspectives. 

It provides a solid foundation for future 

expositions in this series and challenges readers to 

express these theological themes in preaching, in pastoral practice, 

in the works of evangelization, and in the formative experiences of 

friars, sisters, and laity. 

2003: 88 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-200-7 $12.00 


Washington theological Union symposiUm series 

The Washington Theological Union series focuses on promoting the renewal 

of Franciscan theological and intellectual formation among the 

members of the Franciscan family. This series aims to help members 

understand the beauty and wealth of the Franciscan intellectual tradition 

and to extend to the whole Franciscan family – and to society – 

the intellectual heritage of the Franciscan school so that it can support 

effective evangelization. 

Greed, Lust and Power : Franciscan Strategies 

for Building a More Just World 

Featured presenters, Joseph Nangle, Michael 

Crosby, Darleen Pryds and Vincent Cushing. As 

our guides in this process of conscientization, 

the speakers challenged the Symposium’s participants 

to engage with the world in a way that 

is both informed by the teachings of the Gospel 

and guided by the principles of social analysis: 

observe, judge, and act. 

2011: 72 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-220-5 $14.00 

Poverty and Prosperity: Franciscans and 

the Use of Money 

These papers present a thought-provoking 

investigation into Franciscan sources involving 

poverty as well as insights from practitioners to 

bring the past into dialogue with the present in 

order to help us understand how we might think 

about our traditions. 

2009: 112 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-158-1 $14.00 

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. 

2008: 144 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-154-3 $14.00 

Franciscan Evangelization: Striving to Preach 

the Gospel 

This Volume contains presentations by such eminent 

scholars as Dominic Monti, OFM, C. Colt 

Anderson, Darleen Pryds, and Joseph Chinnici, 

OFM. 

2008: 128 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-148-2 $14.00 

Franciscans and Liturgical Life: 

Let us Praise, Adore, and Give Thanks 

Contains essays by Catherine Dooley, OP, Judith 

Kubicki, CSSF, James Sabak, OFM, William 

Cieslak, OFM Cap, and Daniel Grigassy, OFM 

2006: 96 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-141-3 $14.00 

Franciscans and the Scriptures: Living the 

Word of God 

This present volume examines the range 

and depth of contemporary Catholic biblical 

scholarship. Presentations by Robert J. Karris, 

OFM, James Scullion, Dominic Monti, OFM, 

and Michael D. Guinan demonstrate what a rich 

harvest of insight and depth is yielded by the 

application of careful biblical scholarship to the 

“Franciscan Movement.” 2006: 86 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-138-3 $14.00 

“Go Rebuild My House” Franciscans and the 

Church Today 

Elise Saggau, OSF, ed 

Essays address current issues in the Church 

from the perspective of Franciscan theology and 

pastoral care, and the desire to follow the call to 

“Rebuild my church” heard by Francis of Assisi. 

Authors include C. Colt Anderson, Ph.D., John 

Burkhard, OFM Conv., Vincent Cushing, OFM, 

Doris Gottemoeller, RSM, and Katarina Schuth, OSF. 

2004: 112 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-194-9 $14.00 

Franciscans and Creation: What is Our Responsibility? 

The third volume of the Franciscan Intellectual 

Tradition series explores the concept that 

creation is a sacrament of God. In the context 

of Franciscan theology, created reality reveals 

God’s overflowing goodness, reflected in the 

order, beauty, and harmony of nature. Contributors 

to this volume are John F. Haught, Gabriele Ühlein, OSF, 

Dawn M. Nothwehr, OSF, Keith Warner, OFM, Franklin Fong, 

OFM, and Zachary Hayes, OFM. Preface by Ilia Delio, OSF. 

2003: 112 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-190-1 $12.00 

Franciscan Identity and Postmodern Culture 

Kathleen A. Warren, OSF, ed 

This volume explores the demanding cultural 

context in which the work of the retrieval and 

revitalization of the Franciscan Intellectual 

Tradition is undertaken. Among the contributors 

Ilia Delio, OSF; John Burkhard, OFM Conv.; 

Gabriele Ühlein, OSF. 2003: 128 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-186-4 $12.00 

The Franciscan Intellectual Tradition 

Elise Saggau, OSF, ed 

This first volume of the series explores the intellectual 

inheritance of the Franciscan 

Order as articulated through the centuries. 

Contributions to this volume include Zachary 

Hayes, OFM; Kenan Osborne, OFM; Mary Beth 

Ingham, CSJ. 2001: 160 p. 

Pb 978-1-57659-180-2 $12.00 

Walls Speak: The Narrative Art 

of Hildreth Meiere 

Catherine Coleman Brawer, edited by 

Elaine Banks Stainton, illustrated by Hildreth 

Meiere Dunn 

This book has been published in connection 

with the exhibition, The Walls Speak: 

The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meiere. 

Joseph A. LoSchiavo, Associate Vice- 

President, St. Bonaventure University and 

Executive Director, The Regina A. Quick 

Center for the Arts, provides a preface for the book. It was at the 

Quick Center for the Arts that the exhibition opened before moving 

to the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, in the 

spring of 2011. Louise Meiere Dunn, Hildreth’s granddaughter, 

provides a recap of Hildreth Meiere’s commissions. 

2009: 112 p. 

Pb 978-1-93531-400-4 $35.00 

The Good Journey: 150 

Years of History at St. 

Bonaventure University 

based on the research of 

Edward K. Eckert 

editing and additional 

content by Robert, Ann 

and Daniel McCarthy 

Based on an original text 

by Edward Eckert with 

editing and additional content from St. Bonaventure alumni Robert, 

Ann and Daniel McCarthy, we have combined their terrific 

text with iconic and inspiring photos from our archives to bring 

you this compelling written and visual history of St. Bonaventure 

University. 

June 2011: 160 p. 

Hc 978-1-57659-222-9 $45.00 

Three Heroes of Assisi in World War II 

by Andre Cirino, OFM and Josef Raischl 

In 1943-44, amidst the horrors of war, Assisi 

had another time of true glory. While the 

Allies had just landed in Sicily, Assisi was 

occupied by German troops. There, three 

men worked together to do something 

constructive rather than destructive: Bishop 

Giuseppe Nicolini, the German commander, 

a medical doctor, Col. Valentin Müller 

and Don Aldo Brunacci. 

Divided by the war, they remained nevertheless united by their 

Christian faith and its mandate of unconditional love. They obtained 

that Assisi be made a hospital city, a city for medical care, 

not for military confrontation; a city for healing, not for fighting. 

The anthology highlights the heroic efforts of Nicolini and Brunacci 

by which many Jewish refugees survived, correcting the distorted 

historical account of the book and film “Assisi Underground.” 

2005: 150 p. 

Pb 978-8-88702-173-8 $24.95 

St. Bonaventure univerSity 

Art of Sky, Art of Earth: Cosmic 

Imagery in St. Bonaventure 

University’s Maya Collection 

by Stephen L. Whittington with photographs 

by Justin Kerr 

This volume was published in 

conjunction with the exhibition “Art 

of Sky, Art of Earth: Maya Cosmic 

Imagery” held at the Museum of 

Anthropology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, Sept 

2009 - May 2012. The basis for the exhibition and this book lies 

in the donation of Maya objects to St. Bonaventure University by 

alumni Jack and Jerome Fishkin and their friend, Jane Abrams. 

The text of the book is in both English and Spanish. 

2010: 57 pp. 

Pb 978-0615-39444-2 $9.95 

Father Mychal Judge: An Authentic 

American Hero 

by Michael Ford 

This intimate spiritual protrait of Father 

Mychal Judge features exclusive interviews 

with some of his closest friends and associates. 

It explores the inner life of New 

York’s most popular and charismatic Franciscan 

who became an overnight American 

hero when his life came to a tragic end 

serving as the New York City fire chaplain 

during the attack on the World Trade Center. Former New York 

City Mayor Rudy Guilliani said of Fr, Mychal, “He embodied the 

ideal blend of spirituality and public service.” 

2002: 

Hc 978-0-8091-0552-6 $14.95 

A Legacy Defined: 2011-2012 St. 

Bonaventure University Basketball 

edited by Tom Missel 

The pieces were all in place for a great 

basketball season at St. Bonaventure. 

But few could have dreamed that one of 

the smallest colleges in Division I would 

send both teams to their respective NCAA 

Tournaments. When they did, the campus 

and local communities made sure the 

teams would never forget what they had 

accomplished, lining the streets of Allegany and Olean as they 

left town with police and fire escorts for airports to take them to 

Nashville, Tallahassee and Raleigh, where alumni and students 

turned out in droves to show their support. 

“A Legacy Defined” chronicles the madness of March in New 

York’s Southern Tier with stories about the seasons and tournaments, 

and more than 100 memorable photos, from the games 

and behind the scenes. 

2012: 128 p 

Pb 978-1-57659-360-8 $19.95 


Journals author index 

The Cord (Quarterly Journal) 

Daria Mitchell, OSF, General Editor 

The Cord, a quarterly review which deals with topics having to do with the Franciscan spiritual tradition, 

celebrates sixty-two years of continuous publication in 2012. It offers articles of historical interest, as well as 

articles dealing with contemporary applications. Its primary purpose is to promote a deeper knowledge and 

more ardent love of the Franciscan way of life. 

Back Issues are available upon request. 

Domestic $30.00 (USD) includes postage. 

International: $40.00 (USD) includes postage. 

Visit us at www.franciscanpublications.com to have FREE access to The Cord’s Index and 

past issues of 60+ years 

Franciscan Studies (Annual Journal) 

Jean- François Godet-Calogeras, General Editor 

Franciscan Studies is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal published by the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure 

University since 1942. It deals with Franciscan matters: history, philosophy, theology, and art. Its 2011 

issue (Volume 69) is now available. Volume 70 will be published in the fall of 2012. It contains contributions 

of international scholars on a variety of topics. Back issues are available upon request. 

Domestic $60.00 (USD) includes postage. 

International $70.00 (USD) includes postage. 

Visit us at www.franciscanpublications.com to access Franciscan Studies Index for FREE 

Vita Evangelica: Essays In Honor of Margaret Carney, OSF 

Franciscan Studies - Volume 64, 2006 

In this special edition of Franciscan Studies, Sr. Margaret Carney, OSF is honored by a series 

of articles on her 65th birthday. 

Limited Edition - $50.00 


A 

Aertsen, Jan A. 17 

Alberzoni, Maria Pia 30 

Almagno, Romano Stephen 25 

Anderson, C. Colt 38 

Andrews, Robert 3, 17, 19 

Armstrong, Regis J. 2, 30, 35 

b 

Badin, Gratien 32 

Banks Stainton, Elaine 39 

Barcham, William 6 

Bazán, Bernardo C. 19 

Beck, Andreas J. 4 

Blastic, Michael W. 13, 28, 30 

Boehner, Philotheus 14, 21, 22, 25, 35 

Bonnano, Raphael 8, 9, 31 

Bougerol, J. Guy 16 

Boulnois, Oliver 4 

Bridges, Geoffrey G. 25 

Brown, Mary Anthony 25 

Brown, Stephen 21 

Brown, Stephen F. 4, 17, 20, 21 

Bullido, Susana 17 

Burkhard, John 38 

Burleigh, Walter 25 

Burr, David 31, 34 

Busche, Hubertus 4 

Buytaert, Eligius M. 21, 22, 26 

Bychkov, Oleg 3, 6, 17, 18, 19 

C 

Calabria, Michael D. 35 

Calisi, Maria 36, 37 

Camps, Arnulf 32 

Carmody, Maurice 32 

Carney, Margaret 1, 2, 10, 12, 30, 32, 35, 

36, 40, 47 

Carol, Juniper P. 25 

Carrozzo, Anthony M. 34, 36 

Cavdar, F. Betul 35 

Celaschi, Nancy 27 

Chinnici, Joseph 13, 33, 35, 38 

Cieslak, William 38 

Cirino, André 33, 39 

Clasen, Sophronius 25, 31 

Coleman Brawer, Catherine 39 

Colligan, Owen A. 26 

Cook, William 6 

Cotter, Francis 32 

Coughlin, F. Edward 15, 34 

Coulot et Franck Storne, Claude 4 

Courtenay, William J. 3, 17 

Crosby, Michael 38 

Cross, Richard 3, 17 

Cruz Gonzalez, Cristina 6 

Cummins, John 13, 35 

Cusato, Michael F. 13, 27, 28, 34, 35, 36 

Cushing, Vincent 36, 38 

D 

Dalarun, Jacques 27, 29 

Daniel, E. Randolph 31, 32 

Darleen Pryds 2, 37, 38 

Davies, Julian 22 

de Beer, Francis 28 

Delio, Ilia 36, 37, 38 

del Punta, Francesco 21 

Desbonnets, Theophile 33 

de Vinck, Jose 8, 9, 15 

Dhont, René Charles 30 

Dooley, Catherine 38 

Dorsett, Felicity 2, 4, 35 

Doyle, Eric 29 

Dreyer, Mechtild 4, 19 

Duffy, Regis A. 13, 35 

Dwyer, Daniel 36 

E 

Ebbesen, S. 19 

Eckert, Edward K. 5, 39 

Emery, K. 19 

Esser, Cajetan 31 

Etzkorn, Girard J. 18, 19, 20, 21, 24 

F 

Flanigan, Theresa 6 

Flood, David 6, 23, 24, 27, 29 

Flora, Holly 6 

Fong, Franklin 38 

Ford, Michael 39 

Frank, William A. 3, 17 

Freyer, Johannes B. 13, 35 

g 

Gál, Gedeon 19, 20, 21, 24 

Gallant, Laurent 13, 28 

Gambatese, Angelus R. 21 

Getek, Katherine 38 

Godet-Calogeras, Jean-François 2, 10, 13, 

28, 30, 35 

Gottemoeller, Doris 38 

Grassi, Carlo A. 20 

Green, Romuald 19, 21 

Grigassy, Daniel 38 

Guinan, Michael D. 13, 35, 37, 38 

H 

Haack, David 6 

Hammond, Jay M. 13, 28 

Harder, Yves-Jean 4 

Harkins, Conrad L. 25 

Haught, John F. 38 

Hayes, Zachary 13, 14, 15, 16, 34, 35, 38, 

47 

Hellmann, J.A. Wayne 13, 16, 28 

Himes, Kenneth 36 

Hines, Hugh 36 

Hoeberichts, Jan 28, 29, 35 

Hofmann, Tobias 3, 17 

Honnefelder, Ludger 3, 17 

Hooper, M. Rachel 26 

Hutmacher, Robert 33 

I 

Ingham, Mary Beth 11, 17 

Iribarren, Isavel 4 

J 

Johnson, Timothy J. 12, 15, 16 

Johnstone, Brian 38 

Jordan, Mark 36 

K 

Karecki, Madge 35 

Karris, Robert J. 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 23, 27, 

31, 38 

Kelley, Francis E. 19, 20 

Kennedy, Trinita 6 

Kerr, Justin 39 

Klotz, Margaret 2, 35 

Knox, Lezlie 13, 30 

Kobusch, Theo 17 

Krieger, G. 19 

Kubicki, Judith 38 

Kush, Suzanne M. 32 

L 

Lachance, Paul 2, 27, 35, 36 

Lambert, Malcolm 28 

Larson, Shannon 1 

Lavin, Irving 6 

Leibold, Gerhard 21 

Lentz, Robert 6, 35 

Leppin, Vokler 4 

Lindberg, David C. 26 

Loiret, Francois 4 

Lopez, Elisabeth 13, 30 

Lortz, Joseph 34 

Lynch, Cyprian 32 

Lynch, John E. 25 

Lynch, Killian F. 25 

Lynn, Beth 2, 35

Author Index tItle Index 

M 

MacVicar, Thaddeus 32 

Manselli, Raoul 28 

Marcil, George 19, 33 

Marrone, Francesco 4 

Matura, Thaddée 27, 28, 29 

McCarthy, Ann 39 

McCarthy, Daniel 39 

McCarthy, Robert 39 

McCloskey, Pat 32 

McCord Adams, Marilyn 17 

McElrath, Damian 33 

McKelvie, Roberta 10, 31, 33, 35, 36 

McMicael, Steven J. 24 

Meany, Mary Walsh 2, 35 

Mehl, Edouard 4 

Meiere Dunn, Hildreth 39 

Melucci, Donatella 27 

Merlo, Grado Giovanni 31 

Michon, Cyrille 4 

Millane, Pacelli 2, 30, 35 

Miller, Ramona 2, 30, 35 

Missel, Tom 39 

Mitchell, Daria 10, 33, 40 

Mohle, Hannes 17 

Möhler, H. 19 

Moleta, Vincent 28 

Monti, Dominic V. 14, 15, 33, 36, 38 

Moody, Ernest A. 21 

Moons, Anselm 36 

Moorman, John R. H. 29, 31, 32 

More, Alison 2, 35 

Mueller, Joan 30 

Mulvaney, Beth 6 

Murray, Campion 8, 9, 14 

Myers, Susan E. 24 

N 

Nairn, Thomas 38 

Nangle, Joseph 38 

Nguyên-Van Khanh, Norbert 34 

Noone, Timothy 17, 19 

Nothwehr, Dawn M. 37, 38 

O 

Oligny, Paul J. 32 

O’Mara, Philip 16 

Omar, Irfan A. 35 

O’Neil, Blane 17 

Orchellis, Guidonis de 26 

Osborne, Kenan 13, 31, 35, 37, 38 

P 

Parisoli, Luca 4 

Pazzelli, Raffaele 29 

Pellegrini, Luigi 13, 28 

Peterson, Ingrid 2, 13, 30, 34, 35 

Plevano, Roberto 19 

Prentice, Robert P. 16 

Pryds, Darleen 2, 37, 38 

R 

Raischl, Josef 33, 39 

Ransom, Lynn 6 

Reist, Thomas 8, 9, 15 

Renna, Thomas 1 

Richter, Vladimir 21 

Roesner, Martina 4 

Rusconim Roberto 27 

S 

Sabak, James 38 

Saggau, Elise 12, 33, 36, 38 

Salvati, Carla 27 

Schonberger, Rolf 4 

Schroeder, Joy 2 

Schuth, Katarina 38 

Scullion, James 38 

Seubert, Xavier 6 

Shannon, Thomas A. 11, 17, 36 

Sheehan, Maurice W. 29 

Short, William J. 13, 28, 35 

Solere, Jean-Luc 4 

Spaeth, Paul 14 

Speer, Andreas 17 

Stewart, Robert M. 34 

T 

Thibaudeau, Adele 36 

Todeschini, Giacomo 27 

Tomkinson, Diane 2, 35 

Traver, Andrew 19 

Trottmann, Christian 4 

u 

Ühlein, Gabriele 36, 38 

Unger, Dominic J. 25 

v 

van den Goorbergh, Edith 27 

Vian, Nello 34 

Vincent Cushing 36, 38 

Vollet, Matthias 4 

Vorreux, Damien 10, 28 

Vos, Antonie 4, 13, 17, 35 

W 

Waller, Joanna 13, 30 

Walsh, Flavian 36 

Warner, Keith Douglass 7, 36, 38 

Warren, Kathleen A. 38 

Webering, Damascene 22 

Wey, Joseph C. 20 

White, Joseph M. 31 

Whittington, Stephen L. 39 

Wolter, Allan B. 13, 17, 18, 22, 35 

Wood, Rega 17, 19, 20, 21, 24 

z 

Zweerman, Theodore 27 


Symbols 

30 Days with the Gospel of Luke 8, 16 

A 

Admonitions of St. Francis: Sources and Meanings, The 27 

Angelo Clareno: A Chronicle or History or the Seven Tribulations of the Order of Brothers Minor 31 

Anthony of Padua, Sermones for the Easter Cycle 33 

Art of Sky, Art of Earth: Cosmic Imagery in St. Bonaventure University’s Maya Collection 39 

b 

Beyond the Text: Franciscan Art and Construction of Religion 6 

Birth of a Movement, The 29 

Bonaventure: Mystic of God’s Word 16 

Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Gospel of John 15 

Breviloquium 15 

Brevis Summa Libri Physicorum, Summula Philosophiae Naturalis and Quaestiones super Librum Phsicorum Aristotelis 21 

Build With Living Stones 10, 33 

C 

Care of Souls and the Rhetoric of Moral Theology in Bonaventure and Thomas, The 36 

Clare Among Her Sisters 30 

Clare and Francis: O Let the Faithful People Sing 33 

Clare and the Poor Sisters in the Thirteenth Century 30 

Clare of Assisi: A Medieval and Modern Woman: Clarefest Selected Papers 30 

Clare of Assisi: The Lady 30 

Clare’s Letters to Agnes: Texts and Sources 30 

Colette of Corbie (1381-1447): Learning and Holiness 13, 30 

Collations on the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit 15 

Collations on the Ten Commandments 14 

Collected Articles on Ockham 22 

Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Part I: Chapters 1-8. 14 

Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Part II: Chapters 9-16. 15 

Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Part III: Chapters 17-24. 15 

Compendium of Ockham’s Teachings: A Translation of Tractatus de Principiis Theologiae, A 22 

Cord, The 40 

D 

Daily Labor of the Early Franciscans, The 27 

Daring to Embrace the Other: Franciscans and Muslims in Dialogue 35 

Defense of the Mendicants 15 

De Puritate Artis Logicae Tractatus Longior 25 

Disputed Questions on Evangelical Perfection 15 

Divine and Created Order in Bonaventure’s Theology. 16 

Dubia et Spuria. Tractatus Minor Logicae et Elementarium Logicae 21 

Dying, As A Franciscan 13, 35 

E 

Early Franciscan Movement (1205-1239): History, Sources and Hermeneutics, The 27 

Ethical Method of John Duns Scotus 36 

Ethical Theory of John Duns Scotus, The 11, 17 

Examined Report of the Parish Lecture, Reportatio I-A, The 18 

Expositio in Libros Physicorum (Books I-III) 21 

Expositio in Libros Physicorum (Books IV-VIII) 21

Expositionis in Libros Artis Logicae Pro-oemium et Expositio in Librum Porphyrii de Praedicabilibus 21 

Exposition super Libros Elenchorum Aristotelis 21 

F 

Father Mychal Judge: An Authentic American Hero 39 

First Encounter With Francis of Assisi 10, 28 

First Franciscan Woman: Clare of Assis & Her Form of Life, The 30 

First Franciscan Woman: Clare of Assisi & Her Form of Life, The 12, 30 

First Gospel, Genesis 3:15 25 

Francis and Islam 28 

Franciscan Charism in Higher Education, The 36 

Franciscan Christology 33 

Franciscan Concept of Mission in the High Middle Ages 32 

Franciscan Evangelization: Striving to Preach the Gospel 38 

Franciscan Identity and Postmodern Culture 38 

Franciscan Intellectual Tradition, The 38 

Franciscan Intellectual Tradition: Tracing Its Origins and Identifying Its Central Components, The 37 

Franciscan Leader: A Modern Version of the Six Wings of the Seraph. An Anonymous Franciscan Treatise in the Tradition of St. Bonaventure, 

The 16 

Franciscan Leadership in Ministry: Foundations in History, Theology, and Spirituality 36 

Franciscan Poverty 28, 

Franciscans and Creation: What is Our Responsibility? 38 

Franciscans and Healthcare: What is the Future? 33 

Franciscans and Liturgical Life: Let us Praise, Adore, and Give Thanks 38 

Franciscans and the Scriptures: Living the Word of God 38 

Franciscans in Urban Ministry 33 

Franciscan Solitude 33 

Franciscan Spirituals & the Capuchin Reform, The 32 

Franciscan Studies 40 

Franciscan Studies: The Difference Women are Making 36 

Franciscan View of Creation: Learning to Live in a Sacramental World, A 37 

Franciscan View of the Human Person: Some Central Elements, The 37 

Franciscan Vision and the Gospel of John: The San Damiano Crucifix, Francis and John, Creation and John, The 37 

Franciscan Wealth: From Voluntary Poverty to Market Society 27 

Francis of Assisi and Power 29 

Francis of Assisi and the Feminine 29 

Francis of Assisi: Heritage and Heirs Eight Centuries Later 27 

Francis of Assisi in the Sources and Writings 27 

Francis of Asssi: The Message in His Writings. 27 

Francis, The Incomparable Saint 34 

Friars Minor in China 31, 32 

Friars Minor in Ireland from Their Arrival to 1400 32 

From Intuition to Institution: The Franciscans 33 

From St. Francis to Giotto 28 

g 

Golden Words – The Sayings of Brother Giles of Assisi 34 

Good Journey: 150 Years of History at St. Bonaventure University, The 39 

“Go Rebuild My House” Franciscans and the Church Today 38 

Greed, Lust and Power : Franciscan Strategies for Building a More Just World 38 

H 

title index 

Harmony of Goodness, The 11, 17 

Henrici de Werla, OFM: Opera Omnia 25 

Her Bright Merits: Essays Honoring Ingrid J. Peterson, OSF 2, 35 

Hidden Center, The 16 

History of Franciscan Theology, The 31 

History of the Controversy Over the Debitum Peccati 25 

History of the Franciscan Order 31 

History of The Third Order Regular Rule: A Source Book 32 


I 

Identity & Distinction in Petrus Thomae 25 

I Know Christ 32 

In Solitude and Dialogue: Contemporary Franciscans Theologize 34 

In the Footsteps of St. Clare: A Pilgrim’s Guide Book 30 

In the Name of Saint Francis: A History of the Friars Minor and Franciscanism until the Early Sixteenth Century 31 

Intorduction to The Works of Bonaventure 16 

Islam and Franciscanism: A Dialogue 36 

Itinerarium Mentis in Deum (Journey of the Soul Into God) 14 

J 

John de la Rochelle – Eleven Marian Sermons 25 

John Duns Scotus. A Treatise on Potency and Act. Questions on the Metaphysics of Aristotle Book IX 18 

John Duns Scotus. Early Oxford Lecture on Individuation 18 

John Duns Scotus. Four Questions on Mary 18 

John Duns Scotus, Investigations into his Philosphy: Proceedings of “The Quadruple Congress” on John Duns Scotus Part 3 17 

John Duns Scotus: Mary’s Architect 17 

John Duns Scotus, Philosopher: Proceedings of “The Quadruple Congress” on John Duns Scotus Subsidia 3 17 

John Duns Scotus. Political and Economic Philosophy 18 

K 

Knowledge for Love: Franciscan Science as the Pursuit of Wisdom 7, 37 

L 

Lectura Secunda (Quaestiones in I Sententiarum Petri Lombardi). 24 

Legacy Defined: 2011-2012 St. Bonaventure University Basketball, A 39 

Leonine Union of the Order of Friars Minor 1897, The 32 

Liber de Moralitatibus. 24 

Life and Miracles of Saint Margaret of Cortona, The 1, 30 

M 

Medieval Franciscan Houses 32 

Medieval Franciscans: Volume 2 Friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, The 31 

Mirroring One Another, Reflecting the Divine: The Franciscan-Muslim Journey Into God 35 

Misadventure of Francis of Assisi, The 29 

Mission in the Franciscan Tradition 36 

Moral Action in a Complex World: Franciscan Perspectives 38 

N 

Nicolaus Minorita: Chronica (The Early 13th Century Poverty Controversy) 24 

O 

Ockham on Aristotle’s Physics: A Translation of Ockham’s Brevis Summa Libri Physicorum 22 

On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology (De Reductione Artium ad Theologiam) 14

title index 

Opera Theologica of John Duns Scotus, The 3, 17 

Origins of the Franciscan Order 31 

P 

Paradise Restored 29 

Paul of Pergula: Logica and Tractatus de Sensu Composito ed Diviso 25 

Paul of Venice: Logica Magna 26 

“Peace and Good” in America, A History of the Holy Name Province, Order of the Friars Minor 1850s to the present 31 

Peter Aureoli: Scriptum Super Primum Sententiarum. 

Dist. II-VIII 26 

Peter Aureoli: Scriptum Super Primum Sententiarum. Dist. II-VIII 24 

Peter of John Olivi: Commentary on the Gospel of Mark 13, 23 

Peter of John Olivi on Genesis 23 

Peter of John Olivi on the Acts of the Apostles 23 

Peter of John Olivi on the Bible 23 

Petrus Thomae QUODLIBET 26 

Poor Man’s Legacy: An Anthology of Franciscan Poverty, A 32 

Poverty and Prosperity: Franciscans and the Use of Money 38 

Psychology of Love According to St. Bonaventure 16 

Q 

Quaestiones in Libros Perihermenias Aristotelis 19 

Quaestiones in Librum Porphyrii isagoge et Quaestiones Super Praedicamenta Aristotelis 19 

Quaestiones in Librum Quartum Sententiarum (Reportatio) 20 

Quaestiones in Librum Secundum Sententiarum (Reportatio) 20 

Quaestiones in Tertium Librum Sententiarum (Reportatio) 20 

Quaestiones super Libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis, Libri I-V 19 

Quaestiones super Libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis, Libri VI-IX 19 

Quaestiones super Secundum et Tertium de Anima 19 

Quaestiones Variae 20 

Questions on the Metaphysics of Aristotle by John Duns Scotus 18 

Quodlibeta Septem 20 

R 

Refounding in the Franciscan Tradition 36 

Rejoicing in the Works of the Lord: Beauty in the Franciscan Tradition 37 

Respectfully Yours: Signed and Sealed, Francis of Assisi. Aspects of His Authorship and Focuses of His Spirituality 27 

Retrieving a Living Tradition – Angelina of Montegiove: Franciscan, Tertiary, Beguine 31 

Rule of the Friars Minor, 1209-2009: Historical Perspectives, Lived Realties 35 

Rule of the Secular Franciscan Order: Origins, Development, Interpretation 34 

S 

Sacrament of Confirmation in the Early-Middle Scholastic Period, The 25 

Saint Bonaventure’s Disputed Questions on the Mystery of the Trinity 14 

Scotism through the Centuries: Proceedings of The Quadruple Congress on John Duns Scotus, part 4 17 

Scotus and Ockham Selected Essays 18, 22 

Scotus for Dunces: An Introduction to the Subtle Doctor 17 

Scriptum in Librum Primum Sententiarum (Ordinatio), Distinctiones 4-18 20 

Scriptum in Librum Primum Sententiarum (Ordinatio), Distinctiones 19-48 20 

Scriptum in Librum Primum Sententiarum (Ordinatio), Distinctiones secunda et tertia 20 

Scriptum in Librum Primum Sententiarum (Ordinatio), Prologus et Distinctio prima 20 

Soul In Ascent, The 12, 16 

Spiritual Warefare and Six Other Spiritual Writingss of Peter of John Olivi 9, 23 

St. Anthony Doctor of the Church 31 

St. Bonaventure’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes 14 

St. Bonaventure’s Disputed Questions on the Knowledge of Christ 14 

St. Bonaventure’s Writings Concerning the Franciscan Order 14 

St. Bonaventure University: A History 5 

St. Francis and the Song of Brotherhood and Sisterhood. 29 

St. Francis and the Third Order: The Franciscan and pre-Franciscan Penitential Movement 29 

St. Francis of Assisi 28, 29 

St. Francis of Assisi: Essays in Commemoration 29 

Stigmata of Francis of Assisi, The 27 

St. John Damascene DIALECTICA Version of Robert Grosseteste 26 

Studies Honoring Ingnatius Charles Brady, Friar Minor 25 

Studies in Early Franciscan Sources: Writings of Francis and Clare of Assisi 13 

Summa Logicae 21 

Sunday Sermons of St. Bonaventure, The 15 


T 

Teacher of His Heart, The 34 

That Others May Know and Love: Essays in Honor of Zachary Hayes, OFM 34 

Theory of Demonstration According to William Ockham 22 

Theory of Knowledge of Vital du Four 25 

Three Heroes of Assisi in World War II 39 

Towards the Discovery of Clare of Assisi: Clare’s Form of Gospel Life 30 

Tractatus de Perspectiva 26 

Tractatus de Sacramentis 26 

Tractatus de Sacramento Altaris and De Corpore Christi 20 

Tractatus De Successivis 26 

Trinitarian Perspective in the Franciscan Theological Tradition 37 

True Followers of Justice: Identity, Insertion, and Itinerancy among the Early Franciscans 36 

u 

Unencumbered Heart A Tribute to Clare of Assisi 1253-2003, An 35 

v 

Vita Evangelica: Essays In Honor of Margaret Carney, OSF 40 

W 

Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meiere 39 

We Saw Brother Francis 28 

Women of the Streets, Early Franciscan Women and Their Mendicant Vocation 37 

Words Made Flesh: Essays Honoring Kenan B. Osborne, O.F.M. 13, 35 

Writings of Clare of Assisi, The 13, 30 

Writings of Francis of Assisi: Letters and Prayers, The 13, 28 

Writings of Francis of Assisi: Rules, Testament and Admonitions, The 13, 28 

Writings on the Spiritual Life 15

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