Saint Francis: Nature Mystic: The Derivation and Significance of the Nature Stories in the Franciscan Legend

Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions

by Edward Allworthy Armstrong

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

270 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

Edward Allworthy Armstrong (1900–1978) was a British ornithologist and Church of England clergyman.

Armstrong was the author of a number of ornithological books, including Bird display: an introduction to the study of bird psychology (1942), The Wren (New Naturalist Monograph no.3) (1955) and The study of bird song (1963). He was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for his book Birds of the Grey Wind.

Reviews

[Miriam · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a good, if extremely dense, research book. Armstrong writes from a theological standpoint, but not a dogmatic one. He writes respectfully of women and of Jews, and criticizes those theologians who do not. He also makes excellent points about Francis' legacy and the historians and biographers who have misinterpreted him. This book was not an easy read, but Armstrong's disarming honesty made it a memorable one.