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Through the eyes of the saints : a pilgrimage through history
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Through the eyes of the saints : a pilgrimage through history / David Brown.
ISBN
0826476406 (pbk.)
Published
London ; New York : Continuum, 2005.
Physical Description
xiii, 185 p. ; 22 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 31, 2005
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The whole company of heaven: holy imperfection and the medley of difference
Christ and his train: the bishop and the artist
Polycarp and Perpetua: martyrdoms real and not so real
Antony of Egypt: the desert blossoming in rural Scotland
Hilary and Athanasius: wrestling to make doctrine relevant
John Chrysostom: a firebrand for the city's poor
Columba: Celtic dislocation
Aidan and Augustine: destructive pride
Gregory the Great: the papacy that might have been
Margaret of Scotland: hidden debts to others
Anselm of Canterbury: on entering other worlds
Bernard and Abelard: with heart and mind
Thomas à Becket and Hildebrand: power and its ambiguities
Catherine of Siena: a young woman reforming the Church
Thomas Arundel: the saint who burnt heretics
Thomas Cranmer: a hand for friendship and for fire
Charles V and Nicholas Ferrar: the emperor changes his clothes
Teresa of Avila: transcending male and female, faith and works
John Cosin: vain ceremonial or bodily worship
Joseph Butler: reason and nature as sacramental
John Wesley: psychology and conversion
Wilberforce, Newton and Simeon: Evangelical struggle for a larger vision
Josephine Butler: caring for those not like ourselves
Edith Stein: beyong guilt and innocence
Hannington and Luwum: transcending the colonial past
Heaven alongside: interceding saints.
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