Poverty and Prosperity: Franciscans and the Use of Money : Washington Theological Union Symposium Papers 2009

The topic for this symposium was chosen well in advance of the world economic crisis which developed in 2008-09 but with that reality the theme was infused with additional significance. While plans to gather academic for a thought-provoking investigation into Franciscan tradition involving poverty continued, their presentations were balanced with insights from activists to bring the past into dialogue with the present in order to help us understand how we might think about our resources. As the papers in this volume demonstrate, Franciscan poverty has and continues to develop and to elicit new forms in the life of the church.