Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Approaching the Gospels
- Part II The Gospels As Witnesses to Christ
- Part III The Afterlife of the Gospels
- 13 The Gospels and Doctrine
- 14 Reception History of the Gospels
- 15 Praying the Gospels
- 16 The Gospels Embodied
- 17 Living the Gospels
- 18 The Gospels for the Life of the World
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page iii)
- References
16 - The Gospels Embodied
The Lives of Saints and Martyrs
from Part III - The Afterlife of the Gospels
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2021
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Approaching the Gospels
- Part II The Gospels As Witnesses to Christ
- Part III The Afterlife of the Gospels
- 13 The Gospels and Doctrine
- 14 Reception History of the Gospels
- 15 Praying the Gospels
- 16 The Gospels Embodied
- 17 Living the Gospels
- 18 The Gospels for the Life of the World
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page iii)
- References
Summary
McCarthy builds on a trend in the theology of scripture according to which the truth of the text is discovered in the ‘performance’ of the text in the lives of individuals and communities. On this basis, he offers a series of cameos in which the ‘exegesis’ of a gospel text takes biographical form, and the lives of saints and martyrs become a kind of extension of the scriptural canon.
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels , pp. 325 - 343Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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Further Reading
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Cunningham, Lawrence S., A Brief History of Saints (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005).Google Scholar
Day, Dorothy, By Little and by Little: The Selected Writings of Dorothy Day, ed. Ellsberg, Robert (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984)Google Scholar
DeLorenzo, Leonard, Work of Love: A Theological Reconstruction of the Communion of Saints (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017)Google Scholar
Foucauld, Charles de, Meditations of a Hermit, trans. Balfour, Charlotte (London: Burns & Oates, 1981)Google Scholar
McCarthy, David Matzko, Sharing God’s Good Company: A Theology of the Communion of Saints (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2012)Google Scholar
White, Carolinne, ed. and trans., Early Christian Lives (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1998)Google Scholar
Wilken, Robert L., The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God (New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2003)Google Scholar
Zahn, Gordon, In Solitary Witness: The Life and Death of Franz Jägerstätter (Boston: Beacon Press, 1964)Google Scholar