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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

By
David Matzko McCarthy
Edited by
Stephen C. Barton  and
Todd Brewer
Stephen C. Barton
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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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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reception historygospelslives of saintsmartyrologyperformance criticismethicshermeneutics
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The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels , pp. 325 - 343
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Armstrong, Regis J., OFM Cap., and Brady, Ignatius C., OFM, eds., Francis and Clare: The Complete Works (New York: Paulist Press, 1982)Google Scholar
Bergman, Susan, ed., Martyrs (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1996)Google Scholar
Brown, Peter, Augustine of Hippo (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967)Google Scholar
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
King, Martin Luther Jr, Strength to Love (Philadelphia: Fortress, 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

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