All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time - Couverture souple

Ellsberg, Robert

 
9780824516796: All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time

Synopsis

This praised and best-selling daily reader presents short, comprehensive biographies of 365 saints and spiritual masters from Christianity and other faith traditions, including Mary Magdalene, Therese of Lisieux, Thomas Aquinas, Mother Teresa, Moses, Martin Luther, and Gandhi.

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Revue de presse

Saints have typically been figures from the distant past, canonized for miraculous lives of perfection and self-denial. Orbis editor-in-chief Ellsberg here redefines this stereotype in this diverse and substantial compendium of the lives of men and women, ancient and contemporary, who gave themselves completely to their vocations. Well-known saints, apostles, and martyrs take their place beside lesser-known figures (the woman with a flow of blood who touched Jesus' hem), theologians and philosophers (e.g., Martin Buber, Simone Weil, Kierkegaard), artists (Van Gogh, Mozart, J.S. Bach), literary figures (Dante, Tolstoy), social reformers (Gandhi, Schweitzer), and numerous others who do not fit into neat categories. A different figure is introduced for each day of the year to coincide with feast days or birth/death dates, and helpful biographical sources are provided. --Library Journal

Présentation de l'éditeur

This praised and best-selling daily reader presents short, comprehensive biographies of 365 saints and spiritual masters from Christianity and other faith traditions, including Mary Magdalene, Therese of Lisieux, Thomas Aquinas, Mother Teresa, Moses, Martin Luther, and Gandhi.

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9780824515997: All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0824515994 ISBN 13 :  9780824515997
Editeur : Crossroad Publishing Co ,U.S., 1997
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