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Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Thomas Andrew DuBois
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Sanctity in the North features English translations of texts from Latin or vernacular Nordic languages, in many cases for the first time. The accompanying essay
Saints and Sanctity
Language: en
Pages: 461
Authors: Ecclesiastical History Society. Summer Meeting
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: DS Brewer

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Provides insight into a key issue of Christian history which still has a huge influence on ecclesiastical practice and politics.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Peter Kreeft
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Ignatius Press

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"Standing on the shoulders of C.S. Lewis", Kreeft provides a look at the nature of heaven. A refreshingly clear, theologically sound glimpse of the "undiscovere
Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics
Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Janine Larmon Peterson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics Janine Larmon Peterson investigates regional saints whose holiness was contested. She scrutinizes the papacy's toleration of
Saints
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Pages: 423
Authors: Françoise Meltzer
Categories: Religion
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While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subj