Francis as “vernacular theologian” [one whose writing and life demonstrates that all persons can experience God in the midst of the world, and communicate this for the ordinary person] was “not simply a religious genius who sparked an evangelical renewal movement that would come to include great thinkers, but also as one who himself forged new understandings of God and of God’s relation to the world.”
Provided by the Commission on the Franciscan Intellectual & Spiritual Tradition (CFIT)