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Through the eyes of the saints, a pilgrimage through history, David Brown

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Through the eyes of the saints, a pilgrimage through history, David Brown

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Through the eyes of the saints

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

David Brown

Sub title

a pilgrimage through history

Table Of 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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