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The lives of great Christians, Professor William R. Cook

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The lives of great Christians, Professor William R. Cook

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The lives of great Christians

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Professor William R. Cook

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Great courses. Religion & theology. Christianity

Summary

Historian William Cook discusses the lives of prominent Christians through the ages

Table Of Contents

Introduction: what makes a great Christian? -- Paul and the first Christian missionaries -- The early martyrs -- St. Antony, the first monk -- The desert fathers and mothers -- Augustine -- St. Patrick and the conversion of Ireland -- St. Benedict and his rule -- Leo IX, Gregory VII, and church reform -- Bernard of Clairvaux and Monastic reform -- Francis of Assisi -- Clare of Assisi -- Catherine of Siena -- Bernardino of Siena -- John Hus and the Hussites -- Thomas More -- Martin Luther -- John Wesley and the origins of Methodism -- The monks of Mount Athos -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Maximilian Kolbe -- Damien of Molokai -- From slavery to Martin Luther King -- Gustavo Gutierrez and liberation theology -- Defining the Christian life

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