Jon M Sweeney: 19 books
The Enthusiast
How the Best Friend of Francis of Assisi Almost Destroyed What He Started
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Popular historian and award-winning author Jon M. Sweeney relates the untold story of St. Francis’s friendship with Elias of Cortona, the man who helped him build the Franciscan movement. Sweeney uses the complexities of their relationship in a gripping narrative of how their efforts changed the world...
Cloister Talks
Learning from My Friends the Monks
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Come along as author Jon M. Sweeney sits in the warm October sun talking with Father Luke or enjoys a December afternoon in the monastery with Father Ambrose.
In Cloister Talks, Sweeney offers a rare glimpse into his decades-long friendships with monks and shares the wisdom and insight for...
The Road to Assisi: The Essential Biography of St. Francis
The Essential Biography of St. Francis
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2003
He conversed with both the Pope and the sultan. He transformed a taste for fine things and troubadour poetry into greater loves for poverty and joyful devotion to God. He never intended to found a traditional religious "movement," but nevertheless, he did. As he died, his brothers had to...
by Jon M. Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2004
This warm-hearted little book is a window into the soul of St. Francis, one of the most passionate and inspiring followers of Jesus. "Prayer was to Francis as play is to a child: natural, easy, creative, and joyful," author Jon Sweeney tells us. "Before it became common to speak in...
When Saint Francis Saved the Church
How a Converted Medieval Troubadour Created a Spiritual Vision for the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
When Saint Francis Saved the Church offers a surprising new look at the world’s most popular saint, showing how this beloved, but often-mythologized character created a spiritual vision for the ages and may very well have rescued the Christian faith. In When Saint Francis Saved the Church (paperback),...
Phyllis Tickle
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
• Authorized text, initiated with Phyllis Tickle’s active involvement • Covers the full range of her life and work By the time of her death in 2015, Phyllis Tickle was one of the most beloved and respected figures in American religious life, and her writing offers a unique combination of the...
St. Francis of Assisi
His Life, Teachings, and Practice (The Essential Wisdom Library)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
An introduction to St. Francis's life and his most profound teachings of faith
St. Francis of Assisi is one of the most venerated Christian figures, and his profound teachings, deep love of nature, and commitment to simplicity have resonated with generations of followers. St. Francis of Assisi,...
Mixed-Up Love
Relationships, Family, and Religious Identity in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Dating, commitment, kids, and family--it's all hard work, and when you come from different religious backgrounds it's even harder.
Jon, a Catholic writer, and Michal, a Reconstructionist rabbi, live out the challenges of an interfaith relationship everyday as husband and wife, and as parents...
Light in the Dark Ages
The Friendship of Francisand Clare of Assisi
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
The Middle Ages were not so very dark, as the old textbooks say. As you will discover in this intriguing portrait of the first Franciscans, we live in dark ages whenever we become preoccupied with power. In this popular history, Jon Sweeney reveals the timeless temptations that come with being human---greed,...
by Jon M. Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
In the tradition of The St. Francis Prayer Book, Jon Sweeney offers an ancient-medieval way of understanding and experiencing the Gospel: the Holy Fool. This countercultural approach is exemplified in the life and teachings of Francis of Assisi, the most popular Saint in history, and his good friend,...
Beauty Awakening Belief
How the Medieval Worldview Inspires Faith Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
What once drove men to construct enormous abbeys and cathedrals, with gargoyles, rounded arches, rose windows, dark recesses, and flying buttresses? In the modern imagination, these structures are believed to tell a series of stories about the meaning of life, but this anachronism would have astounded...
Francis of Assisi in His Own Words
The Essential Writings
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Biographies of St. Francis will only take you so far. It’s impossible to truly understand him without reading his writings. Sweeney has compiled all of the ones that we are most certain come from Francis himself, including his first Rule of life, the Rule he wrote for the Third Order, letters to...
The Age of the Spirit
How the Ghost of an Ancient Controversy Is Shaping the Church
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
A thousand years ago, the church experienced a time of tremendous upheaval called the Great Schism. The one faith became two churches, East and West, and the course of world history was forever changed. And it all swirled around one Latin word in the Nicene Creed, filioque, that indicated the Holy...
Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart
Meditations for the Restless Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) was a priest, a mystic, and nearly a heretic (he died before the Church court’s verdict). In the 20th century, the Roman Catholic Church rehabilitated him and the late Pope John Paul II spoke of his work with fondness.
However, what makes him of particular interest...
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