Contributors demonstrate how the tools of various intellectual disciplines can be used to examine what we now know about the story of Saint Francis in his own era and how that story has been appropriated in our period.

This book brings together the best and most popular papers and lectures of one of the most stimulating voices in contemporary theological conversation. In striking prose, Johann Baptist Metz, a founder of "political theology," faithfully attends to the social, cultural and economic dimensions of Christian theology.>