Lives of the Saints: From Mary and St. Francis of Assisi to John XXIII and Mother Teresa |
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| Title: | Lives of the Saints: From Mary and St. Francis of Assisi to John XXIII and Mother Teresa |
| Author: | Richard McBrien |
| Publisher: | HarperSanFrancisco |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 01 October, 2003 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0060653418 / 9780060653415 |
| List Price: | $19.95 |
| You Save: | $10.44 |
| Amazon Price: | $9.51 (via Amazon marketplace seller) |
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Product Description
The Ultimate ContemporaryA-Z Guide to Saints.
Amazon.com Review
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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Customer Reviews:
• Most Comprehensive.
13 June, 2007
I found McBrien's 'Lives of the Saints' all that a good reference ought be and it is also a good read. The enteries are objective (not always a strong point in such books); contemporary, well and interestingly written.
The tables are a great addition they save one the hunting around for information elsewhere. The time line, notes, bibliography and index give everything that a reference of this type should provide.
I have several other such references from 'The Golden Legend', Butlers, The Sunday Visitor Encyclopaedia,the Oxford and Penguin Dictionaries and some others. McBrien will be first off the shelf. If you only need one such, this is it.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Ugh
13 April, 2003
This book is a worthwhile guide to McBrien's odd biases. As a noted 'dissenter', this book should be a great comfort and resource to like-minded people. To those looking for a credible, well-written guide to Saints - those chosen by God as exemplars off heroic virtue, the book will not do at all. A few lines on great, wildly popular modern saints such as Faustina and Padre Pio? But longer disquisitions on McBrien hobbyhorses such as Albert Schweitzer. Martin Luther King, and Cardinal Bernardin? Please.
- Amazon Customer Review
• No Thank You
30 July, 2003
This book should be carefully avoided. It has a modernist bias and seems to almost criticize the Church's holy saints. A perfect example is the passage on St. Louis Grignion de Montfort and his treatise on the Virgin Mary "True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin", which according to the author, "waned considerably in influence after Vatican II, when emphasis was placed more on Jesus and the Bible". Pope John Paul II has used De Montfort's motto "Totus Tuus" throughout his pontificate, not to mention the fact that "True Devotion" is interlaced with exhaustive scripture quotes and references, from both the Old and New Testaments. "Lives of the Saints" is not a Catholic book; I don't know what it is, but don't line a birdcage with it. Don't buy this book, but do pray for the author!!!!!
- Amazon Customer Review
• Lives Of The Saints:from Mary & St. Francis Of Assisi To John Xxiii
10 January, 2007
Very interesting and facinating book! I purchased the book for my catechism classes but I started reading the info and found it something I had to continue reading.
- Amazon Customer Review
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