Until the end of the book, he maintains both sympathies, a sympathy with the religious perspective and a sympathy with a materialist perspective.Ĭhesterton’s strategy for producing an image of St.
Francis visible for us, and that means making him visible–not as a madman, but–as a saint. Thus, from the very beginning, he addresses the difficulty of his task of writing about something that he believes to be subject to distortion and dismissal. Francis is also accompanied by another sympathy for the spirit of his time and the largely-secular audience of his writing. From the very beginning of this short book, we come into contact with a rare kind of sympathy the author shows for his subject. Francis of Assisi is that he certainly was ascetical and he certainly was not gloomy.Ĭhesterton’s book Saint Francis of Assisi was published in 1923, about two decades after the publication of Heretics (1905) and a decade before the publication of Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox (1933).
… it is utterly useless to study a great thing like the Franciscan movement while remaining in the modern mood that murmurs against gloomy asceticism.
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