TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cunningham,Lawrence S.
TI  - A Brief History of Saints
T2  - New York Academy of Sciences Series
SN  - 9780470777145
AV  - BX2333 .C86 2005 
U1  - 235/.2/09 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Newark
PB  - John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
KW  - Canonization-History
KW  - Christian saints-Cult-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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