Our panel here is hosted by Ruth Gledhill, The Tablet’s Assistant Editor, and consists of Dr Michael Hahn and Dr Eleanor McLaughlin who run the MA programmes in Christian Spirituality and in Theology, Imagination and Culture, respectively, at Sarum College in Salisbury. Michael is a medieval theological historian working on the early Franciscan mystical traditions, and Eleanor is a theologian working on Dietrich Bonhoeffer and disability theology.

In this webinar, the speakers examine the works of St Francis of Assisi and establish how useful they are in conversations about the Church, theology and faith today.

Dr Michael Hahn explores Francis in his own time and introduce themes of disability, ecology and art in the early Franciscan tradition

Dr Eleanor McLaughlin discusses how Francis’s writing on these themes fit into modern theological studies of these topics.