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Title: Needs more intellectual 'meat'
Review: In this popular account of the life and work of Saint Francis and Saint Bonaventure Paul Rout missed a great opportunity to address these unique thinkers. One is forced to endure a poorly written account which anyone off the street could have written. His sentimental account of Francis and the Sulton misses the mark altogether - Francis went to convert the Sulton not to 'enter into dialogue' with him. This section does not act as a model for ecumenicalism but rather as a basis for why such poorly written scholarship should not be published. A student of mine wrote the publishers of this book to complain - and bully for her I say - about the lack of insight this useless book has to offer. This silly tome needs more intellectual 'meat'.
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