A Brief History of Saints

By (author) Cunningham, Lawrence S.

"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. This book refers to both well-known saints, such as Joan of Arc, and lesser-known figures like the 'holy fools' in the Orthodox tradition. It 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. It also discusses the relevance of sainthood in the postmodern era. Two appendices describe patron saints and the iconography of saints in art.

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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

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書名 A Brief History of Saints
著作者等 Cunningham, Lawrence S.
シリーズ名 Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion
出版元 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
刊行年月 2004.11.09
ページ数 192p
大きさ H190 x W136
ISBN 9781405114028
言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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