Františkánske chápanie Písma
The Franciscan Reading of the Scriptures

Summary/Abstract: In attitude to the Gospel, Francis always remained the layman he was when he first met the Book. He felt able to have immediate access to the Gospel, without blaming it for the right of the clergy to God’s word. His education, quite different from the clerical or monastic one, distanced him from fashionable allegorical finesse. On the contrary, it helped him to have a direct and realistic perception of the simplicity of words. Only later will the clergy, who will gain a majority in the order, begin to read the Scriptures as clergy. However, the fact remains that Francis, their father, was a layman. And all the Franciscans, on various levels, derive from him the obligation to be simple in attitude to the Book.

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