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The Cult of the Saints
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Peter Brown
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-12 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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A new edition of the “brilliantly original and highly sophisticated” study of saint worship after the fall of the Roman Empire (Library Journal). In this gr
The Cult of the Saints
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Saint John Chrysostom
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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"The cult of the saints is a phenomenon that expanded rapidly in the fourth century, and John Chrysostom's homilies are important witnesses to its growth. In th
Protestants and the Cult of the Saints
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Carol Piper Heming
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-07-25 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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The role of the saints became a theological dilemma for scholars and laity alike throughout the Reformation era. As Protestants tried to remove themselves from
The Late Medieval Cult of the Saints
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Carmen Florea
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-11 - Publisher: Routledge

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This is a book that explores the nature of sainthood in a region at the margins of medieval Latin Christendom. Defining the model of sanctity that characterized
Saints and Their Cults
Language: en
Pages: 458
Authors: Stephen Wilson
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985 - Publisher: CUP Archive

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This is a paperback edition of a collection of ten papers by different authors on the cult of saints, first published in hard covers in 1983. Six have been tran