St Francis’s silent witness ideal was more radical than open preaching

Evidence

If St Francis himself once chose the second of these two methods, the idea of silent witness, which is what the first amounts to, was even more revolutionary. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 670

Categorization

• SHARE: For a friend interested in Franciscan history — the counterintuitive point that St Francis regarded silent Presence as more revolutionary than preaching.
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