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The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (The Haskell Lectures on History of Religions)
Peter Brown
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| #469932 in Books | 1982-02-15 | 1982-02-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.50 x6.00l,.50 | File type: PDF | 204 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A "Must" for Any Serious Student of Late Antiquity and/or The Origins of Christian Devotional Practice|By JordanJasper|Brown's plunge into exploring the socio-cultural-spiritual conditions that not only engendered but gave burgeoning life to the cult of the Christian dead in Late Antiquity is a curiously succinct but often astonishing work. It remains, over 30 years since its p||
"Brown's style is itself a feast, and he has a genius for making the past and present energize each other."
Following the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, the cult of the saints was the dominant form of religion in Christian Europe. In this elegantly written work, Peter Brown explores the role of tombs, shrines, relics, and pilgrimages connected with the sacred bodies of the saints. He shows how men and women living in harsh and sometimes barbaric times relied upon the merciful intercession of the holy dead to obtain justice, forgiveness, and to find new ways to accept th...
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