A Brief History of Saints

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cunningham, Lawrence S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2005.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • A Brief History of Saints
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Saint: Beginnings
  • Beginnings
  • The Martyrs
  • Literature
  • Veneration
  • 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: Protestant and Catholic
  • 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
  • Anglican and Lutheran Calendars
  • 6 The Saints, World Religions, and the Future
  • Some Terminology
  • Saints as a Theological Resource
  • Saints and the Continuity of Religious Tradition
  • Appendix I: Patron Saints
  • Appendix II: Iconography of the Saints
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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