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ISBN 10: 1405114029
ISBN 13: 9781405114028
Author: Lawrence S. Cunningham
A Brief History of Saints follows the rise of the cult of saints in Christianity from its origin in the age of the martyrs down to the present day.
Refers to both well-known saints, such as Joan of Arc, and lesser-known figures like the ‘holy fools’ in the Orthodox tradition
Ranges over subjects as diverse as the history of canonization processes, the Reformation critique of the cult of saints, and the role of saints in other religious traditions
Discusses the relevance of sainthood in the postmodern era
Two appendices describe patron saints and the iconography of saints in art.
A Brief History of Saints 1st Table of contents:
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
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