Through the Eyes of the Saints

Brown, David

Through the Eyes of the Saints A Pilgrimage Through History - New York Continuum International Publishing Group Inc. 2005 - 185p

includes index and biblioraphy

Introduction 1 1 The Whole Company of Heaven: holy imperfection and the medley of difference 3 2 Christ and his Train: the bishop and the artist 11 Part I: The Early Church 21 3 Polycarp and Perpetua: martyrdoms real and not so real 23 4 Antony of Egypt: the desert blossoming in rural Scotland 31 5 Hilary and Athanasius: wrestling to make doctrine relevant 35 6 John Chrysostom: a firebrand for the city`s poor 41 7 Columba: Celtic dislocation 45 8 Aidan and Augustine: destructive pride 49 9 Gregory the Great: the papacy that might have been 53 Part II: The Medieval Church 59 10 Margaret of Scotland: hidden debts to others 61 11 Anselm of Canterbury: on entering other worlds 67 12 Bernard and Abelard: with heart and mind 73 13 Thomas a Becket and Hildebrand: power and its ambiguities 79 14 Catherine of Siena: a young woman reforming the Church 85 15 Thomas Arundel: the saint who burnt heretics 91 Part III: Reformation and Counter-Reformation 97 16 Thomas Cranmer: a hand for friendship and for fire 99 17 Charles V and Nicholas Ferrar: the Emperor changes his clothes 18 Teresa of Avila: transcending male and female, faith and works 19 John Cosin: vain ceremonial or bodily worship Part IV: The Modern World 20 Joseph Butler: reason and nature as sacramental 21 John Wesley: psychology and conversion 22 Wilberforce, Newton and Simeon: Evangelical struggle for a larger vision 23 Josephine Butler: caring for those not like ourselves 142 24 Edith Stein: beyond guilt and innocence 14S 25 Hannington and Luwum: transcending the colonial past 155

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