A psychobiography of an outstanding spiritual leader, Francis Libermann, founder of the Spiritans and contemporary of Soren Kierkegaard. His life illustrates how consonant spiritual formation overcame the too rigorous initial formation of an oversensitive child, condemnation by his father, suicidal tendencies, and discrimination as a member of the Jewish minority.

A psychobiography of an outstanding spiritual leader, Francis Libermann, founder of the Spiritans and contemporary of Soren Kierkegaard. His life illustrates how consonant spiritual formation overcame the too rigorous initial formation of an oversensitive child, condemnation by his father, suicidal tendencies, and discrimination as a member of the Jewish minority.