Through the eyes of the saints
Subtitle: a pilgrimage through history
By: David Brown.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Christian saints.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The whole company of heaven: holy imperfection and the medley of difference; title: Christ and his train: the bishop and the artist; title: Polycarp and Perpetua: martyrdoms real and not so real; title: Antony of Egypt: the desert blossoming in rural Scotland; title: Hilary and Athanasius: wrestling to make doctrine relevant; title: John Chrysostom: a firebrand for the city's poor; title: Columba: Celtic dislocation; title: Aidan and Augustine: destructive pride; title: Gregory the Great: the papacy that might have been; title: Margaret of Scotland: hidden debts to others; title: Anselm of Canterbury: on entering other worlds; title: Bernard and Abelard: with heart and mind; title: Thomas à Becket and Hildebrand: power and its ambiguities; title: Catherine of Siena: a young woman reforming the Church; title: Thomas Arundel: the saint who burnt heretics; title: Thomas Cranmer: a hand for friendship and for fire; title: Charles V and Nicholas Ferrar: the emperor changes his clothes; title: Teresa of Avila: transcending male and female, faith and works; title: John Cosin: vain ceremonial or bodily worship; title: Joseph Butler: reason and nature as sacramental; title: John Wesley: psychology and conversion; title: Wilberforce, Newton and Simeon: Evangelical struggle for a larger vision; title: Josephine Butler: caring for those not like ourselves; title: Edith Stein: beyong guilt and innocence; title: Hannington and Luwum: transcending the colonial past; title: Heaven alongside: interceding saints.