Radical Love: The Revolutionary Spirituality of Francis of Assisi - Softcover

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Recovering the Saint We Actually Need.

Released for the 800th anniversary of the death of Francis of Assisi (1226–2026), Radical Love is the contemporary spirituality book Christian seekers, contemplatives, and modern mystics have been waiting for.

You can feel that something is off.

Not catastrophically. Just persistently. The pace, the pressure, the noise — the subtle ache of a life that looks fine from the outside and feels emptier than it should.

Eight hundred years ago, a young man in Assisi felt the same fracture. Francis had everything his world said should be enough — wealth, charm, status, admiration. Then he encountered something that changed him completely. He walked away from the life he was expected to live and built a new one around a love so radical it broke every category his world had for it.

Not love as sentiment. Not love as self-help. Love as the kind of daily, costly fidelity that kissed lepers, crossed enemy lines unarmed, and gave birth to one of the great spiritual movements in human history.

In Radical Love, contemplative teacher Anthony Profeta recovers the Francis we actually need — not the garden-statue saint, but the barefoot revolutionary whose life was organized around truth, courage, and a love that asked everything and gave back more.

What You'll Discover Inside:

Across eleven principles drawn directly from Francis's life — and tested across Profeta's own decades of contemplative practice in the Christian, Buddhist, and Hindu traditions — Radical Love offers a path through the spiritual exhaustion of modern life.

You will learn how to:

• Live simply in a culture of excess and constant noise
• Find joy that does not depend on circumstance
• Face fear with the steadiness only contemplative practice can give
• Release the need for approval and the fear of being misunderstood
• See the sacred in everyone — including those you find hardest to love
• Move through grief, guilt, and shame into the freedom grace makes possible
• Build a life that costs something and gives back everything

Each chapter pairs Francis's teaching with practical application, contemplative meditation, and prayer — making this book equally useful for the seasoned contemplative, the spiritually curious, and the reader who has been carrying a quiet hunger for something more.

Perfect for Readers Who Love:

Christian mysticism and the contemplative tradition. The writings of the great spiritual teachers on mindfulness, prayer, and inner transformation. Books that take spiritual practice seriously without retreating into religious rigidity. The mystical heart of Christianity as encountered through saints, sages, and contemporary contemplatives.

If you are tired of spirituality that asks nothing and changes nothing, Radical Love is your invitation.

This book is for you if you are searching for:

A modern guide to Christian mysticism. A contemplative spirituality book grounded in real practice rather than abstract theology. The wisdom of Saint Francis of Assisi made urgently relevant to twenty-first-century life. A spiritual awakening book that honors both Christian tradition and the deep insights of contemplative practice across the world's great wisdom traditions. Books in the spirit of Richard Rohr, Henri Nouwen, Thomas Merton, and the contemporary contemplative renewal.

For the 800th anniversary of Francis of Assisi's death — and for the long generations after it — Radical Love is the book Francis has been waiting for.

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