Luminaries
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Luminaries

Twenty Lives that Illuminate the Christian Way

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eBook - ePub

Luminaries

Twenty Lives that Illuminate the Christian Way

About this book

'Rowan Williams is one of the great theologians of our time. He is also an inspiring teacher whose godly wisdom helps us understand profound truths.' Nicky Gumbel

Starting in the first century with St Paul and ending in the twentieth with St Oscar Romero, Rowan Williams invites you to reflect with him on the lives and legacies of twenty great Christians – saints, martyrs, poets, theologians and social reformers. Their stories and writings have profoundly influenced his own life and thought, and this sequence of short reflections is sure to sharpen your theological vision and cast a fresh light on what it means to live and breathe the gospel.

Included among these 'luminaries' are Augustine of Hippo, William Tyndale, Teresa of Avila, Charles Dickens, Florence Nightingale, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Simone Weil,

Let these brilliant meditations light your way as you follow the footsteps of the faithful who have gone before.

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Information

Publisher
SPCK Publishing
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9780281082957, 9780281082957
eBook ISBN
9780281081608
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. St Paul (c.5–c.67): A man of passions
  7. St Alban (third century): The duty of a Christian
  8. St Augustine of Hippo (354–430): Teacher of the inner life
  9. St Augustine of Canterbury (c.530–604): Apostle to the English
  10. St Anselm of Canterbury (c.1033–1109): The justice of God
  11. Meister Eckhart (1260–1328): The mystery of Godness
  12. Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556): ‘The word of God is not bound’
  13. William Tyndale (1494–1536): God and the economy of debt
  14. St Teresa of Avila (1515–82): A lived theology
  15. John Milton (1608–74): From heroism to fidelity
  16. William Wilberforce (1759–1833): The moral state
  17. Charles Dickens (1812–70): The truth of exaggeration
  18. Florence Nightingale (1820–1910): The light of life
  19. Sergei Bulgakov (1871–1944): Politics, art and prayer
  20. Edith Stein (1891–1942): Thinking in solidarity
  21. Michael Ramsey (1904–88): True humanism
  22. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–45): Freedom, necessity and glory
  23. Simone Weil (1909–43): Waiting on God
  24. Etty Hillesum (1914–43): A compulsion to kneel
  25. St Óscar Romero (1917–80): God has injected himself into history
  26. Notes