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Lives of the Saints: From Mary and St. Francis of Assisi to John XXIII and Mother Teresa

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Lives of the Saints: From Mary and St. Francis of Assisi to John XXIII and Mother Teresa

by: Richard P. McBrien

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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780061232831
Edition: annotated edition
ISBN: 0061232831
Item Dimensions: 119930161626
Label: HarperOne
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 672
Publication Date: August 29, 2006
Publisher: HarperOne
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Studio: HarperOne

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This pocket edition of Richard McBrien's Lives of the Saints is the perfect concise, handy reference for scholars, students, and general readers.

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Lives of the Saints is a go-get-it-now book, an I've-been-waiting-for-this book, a thank-God-it's-on-good-paper-cause-I'll-still-be-reading-this-10-years-from-now book. Believers are drawn to saints because their witness and their teachings are inseparable: saints are the ones who lived what they believed. And we hope that, by learning about saints and meditating upon them, our own beliefs and actions will become more integrated. Author Richard McBrien, a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and author of the equally indispensable Lives of the Popes, is particularly interested in the relationship between the lives of individual saints and the life of the Church. In his preface to Lives of the Saints, and in its excellent essays about the history of sainthood, veneration, and the process of canonization, he repeatedly asks: "What do the saints tell us, individually and collectively, not only about the character of Christian discipleship, but about the meaning of human existence itself? And what does the action of the Church in proclaiming or canonizing various types of Christians as saints disclose about the fundamental religious values of the Church itself?" Lives of the Saints also includes biographical sketches organized by feast day (January 1 is Mary, Mother of God; December 31 is Pope Sylvester I). The book's clear structure and simple style ensure that it will serve many readers' needs: it may be used as a reference or as a devotional, or it may be read straight through. In any case, it will help Christians (or any interested reader) address what McBrien calls "the question of sanctity," a question that lies at the heart of all of our lives: "In what does a human life fully consist?" he asks. "What does it mean not only to be 'good,' but to be 'really good,' even outstandingly so?" --Michael Joseph Gross

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