A Brief History of SaintsISBN: 978-1-4051-1402-8
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188 pages
January 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Illustrations vii
Introduction 1
1 The Saint: Beginnings 5
Beginnings 8
The Martyrs 11
Literature 13
Veneration 16
After Constantine 18
2 The Bureaucratization of Sanctity 28
Liturgical Memory of the Saints 28
The Saintly Legend 31
Regularizing Sainthood 36
A Test Case: Francis of Assisi 39
The Christian East 44
The Many Meanings of the Saints 46
Pilgrimage 49
Venerating Saints: A Theological Clarification 51
3 Reformations: Protestant and Catholic 54
The Age of the Reformers 54
The Catholic Reformation 61
The New Martyrs 68
The Papal Curia and Canonization 72
The Saints and Scholarship 74
4 Towards the Modern World 78
Worlds Divided 78
New Forms of Religious Life 81
Doctors of the Church 87
The Starets 91
The Tractarians and the Saints 96
5 The Twentieth Century 102
Schools of Spirituality 102
A New Saintliness? 107
The New Martyrs 115
John Paul II: Saints and Evangelization 120
Anglican and Lutheran Calendars 123
6 The Saints, World Religions, and the Future 127
Some Terminology 130
Saints as a Theological Resource 136
Saints and the Continuity of Religious Tradition 139
Appendix I: Patron Saints 148
Appendix II: Iconography of the Saints 151
Notes 155
Select Bibliography 162
Index 169
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