Background
Wolf, Kenneth Baxter was born on June 1, 1957 in Santa Barbara, California, United States. Son of Baxter Keyt and Ruth Elizabeth (Adams) Wolf.
(Originally published in 1988, this book offers an importa...)
Originally published in 1988, this book offers an important insight into the so-called 'martyrdom movement' that occurred in Córdoba in the 850s. It includes a biographical treatment of the ninth-century Cordoban priest Eulogius, who witnessed and recorded the martyrdoms of over forty Christians at the hands of Muslim authorities. Eulogius' hagiographical task was complicated by the fact that many of the Christians in Córdoba at the time resented the provocative actions of the martyrs that led to their executions, claiming that their public denunciations of Islam were inappropriate given the relative tolerance of the emir. This book will be of value to scholars and others with an interest in the history of Muslim Spain, the history of Muslim-Christian interaction, and historical ideas of sanctity.
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(Saint Francis of Assisi is arguably the most attractive s...)
Saint Francis of Assisi is arguably the most attractive saint ever produced by the Catholic Church. The unusually high regard with which he is held has served to insulate him from any real criticism of the kind of sanctity that he embodied: sanctity based first and foremost on his deliberate pursuit of poverty. In this book, Kenneth Baxter Wolf takes a fresh look at Francis and the idea of voluntary poverty as a basis for Christian perfection. Wolf's point of departure is a series of simple but hitherto unasked questions about the precise nature of Francis's poverty: How did he go about transforming himself from a rich man to a poor one? How successful was this transformation? How did his self-imposed poverty compare to the involuntary poverty of those he met in and around Assisi? What did poor people of this type get out of their contact with Francis? What did Francis get out of his contact with them? Wolf finds that while Francis's conception of poverty as a spiritual discipline may have opened the door to salvation for wealthy Christians like himself, it effectively precluded the idea that the poor could use their own involuntary poverty as a path to heaven. Based on a thorough reconsideration of the earliest biographies of the saint, as well as Francis's own writings, Wolf's work sheds important new light on the inherent ironies of poverty as a spiritual discipline and its relationship to poverty as a socio-economic affliction.
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Wolf, Kenneth Baxter was born on June 1, 1957 in Santa Barbara, California, United States. Son of Baxter Keyt and Ruth Elizabeth (Adams) Wolf.
Bachelor, Stanford University, California, 1979. Master of Arts, Stanford University, California, 1981. Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, California, 1985.
Lecturer, history Stanford University, California, 1984—1985. Professor, history Pomona College, Claremont, since 1985.
(Originally published in 1988, this book offers an importa...)
(Saint Francis of Assisi is arguably the most attractive s...)
Married Friederike Liese-Lotte von Franqué, August 16, 2003. Children: Owen Clement, Eleanor Kashmar.