A Brief History of SaintsISBN: 978-1-4051-1402-8
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192 pages
January 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of illustrations.
Introduction.
1. The Saint: Beginnings.
Introduction.
Beginnings.
The Martyrs.
Literature.
After Constantine.
2. The Bureaucratization of Sanctity.
Liturgical Memory of the Saints.
The Saintly Legend.
Regularizing Sainthood.
A Test Case: Francis of Assisi.
The Christian East.
The Many Meanings of the Saints.
Pilgrimage.
Venerating Saints: A Theological Clarification.
3. Reformations Catholic and Protestant.
The Age of the Reformers.
The Catholic Reformation.
The New Martyrs.
The Papal Curia and Canonization.
The Saints and Scholarship.
4. Towards the Modern World.
Worlds Divided.
New Forms of Religious Life.
Doctors of the Church.
The Starets.
The Tractarians and the Saints.
5. The Twentieth Century.
Schools of Spirituality.
A New Saintliness.
The New Martyrs.
John Paul II: Saints and Evangelization.
An Anglican and Lutheran Calendar.
6. The Saints, World Religions, and the future.
Introduction.
Some Terminology.
Saints as a Theological Resource.
Saints and the Continuity of Religious Tradition.
Appendix I: Patronal Saints.
Appendix II: Iconography of the Saints.
Notes.
Selected Bibliography.
Index
Introduction.
1. The Saint: Beginnings.
Introduction.
Beginnings.
The Martyrs.
Literature.
After Constantine.
2. The Bureaucratization of Sanctity.
Liturgical Memory of the Saints.
The Saintly Legend.
Regularizing Sainthood.
A Test Case: Francis of Assisi.
The Christian East.
The Many Meanings of the Saints.
Pilgrimage.
Venerating Saints: A Theological Clarification.
3. Reformations Catholic and Protestant.
The Age of the Reformers.
The Catholic Reformation.
The New Martyrs.
The Papal Curia and Canonization.
The Saints and Scholarship.
4. Towards the Modern World.
Worlds Divided.
New Forms of Religious Life.
Doctors of the Church.
The Starets.
The Tractarians and the Saints.
5. The Twentieth Century.
Schools of Spirituality.
A New Saintliness.
The New Martyrs.
John Paul II: Saints and Evangelization.
An Anglican and Lutheran Calendar.
6. The Saints, World Religions, and the future.
Introduction.
Some Terminology.
Saints as a Theological Resource.
Saints and the Continuity of Religious Tradition.
Appendix I: Patronal Saints.
Appendix II: Iconography of the Saints.
Notes.
Selected Bibliography.
Index
