Saints and Sanctity

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9546809-8-5
Verlag: Ecclesiastical History Society

Buch, Englisch, 466 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 796 g

Reihe: Studies in Church History

In most of its forms, Christianity has been a religion focused on the salvation of individuals. This has meant that its churches have questioned what sort of people, and which specific persons, are saved; and so have tried to describe the qualities of such 'saints'. The debates involved have ranged through the outward signs of salvation, whether saints can be identified in this life or after their deaths, whether their often extraordinary lives should serve as examples for a wider Christian public, and whether saints have a power that they can exercise on their own initiative or are owed a particular devotion.
This collection of essays provides a stimulating sample of recent historical research on Christianity's approach to these questions. It spans the earliest construction of personal sanctity in the Eastern and Western traditions, the 'golden age' of saintly cults in the medieval period, post-Reformation debates about the role of saints, and the meaning of canonization within a variety of churches in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It therefore provides insight into a key issue of Christian history which (as the later essays show) still has a huge influence on ecclesiastical practice and politics.

Contributors: ROBERT ANDREWS, CLYDE BINFIELD, FRANS CIAPPARA, AUDE DE MEZERAC-ZANETTI, SOPHIA DEBOICK, BERNARD HAMILTON, MARGARET HARVEY, JOY HAWKINS, COLIN HAYDON, JOSEPHINE LAFFIN, PAK-WAH LAI, OLIVER LOGAN, ANDREW LOUTH, ELENA MARTIN, MAUREEN MILLER, GESINE OPPITZ-TROTMAN, ARIANA PATEY, PATRICK PRESTON, RICHARD PRICE, SAM RICHES, SALVADOR RYAN, SARAH SCUTTS, ROWAN STRONG, KATHARINE SYKES, ALAN THACKER, ALEXIS TORRANCE, PETER TURNER, CHRISTINE WALSH, MICHAEL WALSH, CORDELIA WARR, MARTIN WELLINGS, CHRIS WILSON

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clarke, Peter

Claydon, Professor Tony

Claydon, Tony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction
2 Holiness and Sanctity in the Early Church
3 The Monk as Christian Saint and Exemplar in St John Chrysostom's Writings
4 Commemoration, Representation, and Interpretation: Augustine of Hippo's Depictions of the Martyrs
5 Hagiography and Autobiography in the Late Antique West
6 Popes, Patriarchs and Archbishops and the Origins of the Cult of the Martyrs in Northern Italy
7 Repentance as the Context of Sainthood in the Ascetical Theology of Mark the Monk
8 The Signifiance of St Cuthbert's Vestments
9 Why did the Crusader States produce so few Saints?
10 Sanctity as a Form of Capital
11 Saint and Monster, Saint as Monster: Exemplary Encounters with the Other
12 Penance, Mercy, and Saintly Authority in the Miracles of St Thomas Becket
13 Seeing the Light? Blindness and Sanctity in Later Medieval England
14 The Vision of St Fursa in Thirteenth-Century Didactic Literature
15 Erat Abigail mulier prudentissima: Gilbert of Tournai and Attitudes to Female Sanctity in the Thirteenth Century
16 Liturgical Changes to the Cult of Saints under Henry VIII
17 'I, too, am a Christian': Early Martyrs and their Lives in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Irish Manuscript Tradition
18 St Pius V [1504-72] and Sta Caterina De' Ricci [1523-90]: Two Ways of being a Saint in Counter-Reformation Italy
19 Visualizing Stigmata: Stigmatic Saints and Crises of Representation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
20 San Luigi Gonzaga: Princeling-Jesuit and Model for Catholic Youth
21 The Northern Saints after the Reformation in the Writings of Christopher Watrson [d. 1580]
22 'Truth never needed the protection of forgery': Sainthood and Miracles in Robert Hegge's 'History of St Cuthbert's Churches at Lindisfarne, Cuncacestre, and Dunholme' [1625]
23 Simulated Sanctity in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Malta
24 St Winifred, Bishop Fleetwood, and Jacobitism
25 'Master in the Art of Holy Living': The Sanctity of William Stevens
26 'A saint if ever there was one': Henry Robert Reynolds [1825-96]
27 Commerce and Culture: Benjamin Gregory's Sidelights on Wesleyan Sanctity in the later Nineteenth Century
28 The Canonization of Serafim of Sarov: Piety, Prophecy and Politics in Late Imperial Russia
29 Sanctity and Mission in the Life of Charles de Foucauld
30 Céline Martin's Images of Thérèse of Lisieux and the Creation of a Modern Saint
31 Anglicanism and Sanctity: The Diocese of Perth and the making of a 'Local Saint' in 1984
32 'A Saint for all Australians'?
33 Pope John Paul II and his Canonizations

Über Autor(innen)

Clarke, Peter
PETER CLARKE is Reader in Medieval History at Southampton University.

Claydon, Tony
TONY CLAYDON is Professor of Early Modern History at Bangor University.

PETER CLARKE is Reader in Medieval History at Southampton University.

TONY CLAYDON is Professor of Early Modern History at Bangor University.