Through the Eyes of the Saints: A Pilgrimage Through History - Softcover

'This book skilfully engages spiritual and devotional insights with the academic study of theology, to the mutual benefit of each. It provides a highly satisfactory model for such an enterprise.'--Sanford Lakoff "Theology " '...serious and informative, but also highly enjoyable and maybe a touch provocative too.' Number 412--Sanford Lakoff "Quarterly Review Of The Community Resurrection " ."..Brown draws from four periods of Christian history (...) lives of Christians whose responses to the settings of their day also throw a piercing shaft of light upon our own generation with its nagging needs." Franciscan, Vol. 19 No.1, January 2007 ."..helps to put a lot of things into perspective."--Sanford Lakoff

David Brown engages the question of the role of saints in modern life head on: are they an irrelevance? Brown tells the story of the Church across the centuries through some thirty examples of saints, Protestant no less then Catholic. Because many of them faced dilemmas much more like our own then those of Jesus, their very human wrestlings can continue to help us in our own spiritual pilgrimage. Three more general chapters explain how giving them a special place, far from diminishing Christ, actually secures and enhances his meaning.