Flesh Made Word: Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination

by Todd (Author), Todd (Author), Aviad (Author), Jane Marie (Author), Kleinberg (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $35.80

  In the fourth century a new narrative genre captured the imagination of the faithful - the moving accounts of the lives of Christian saints. This work argues that the saints' stories of medieval Europe were more than edifying entertainment; they retain an alternative theology, often quite different from the formal theology of the Church.