Publisher's Synopsis
Poverty is a problem that challenges every period, every society, and every religion. Nowadays, we regard poverty as a global and complex problem as more and more people are affected by involuntary poverty. In contrast to this the Franciscan way of life chooses a voluntary radical poverty. The two-part international conference in Munster and Utrecht picked out the socio-economic causes and consequences of involuntary poverty, and provided concrete Franciscan contributions to poverty as an alternative and forward-looking path
