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32 - Role models

from PART III - SOCIAL AND CULTURAL IMPACT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2008

By
Hugh McLeod
Edited by
Hugh McLeod
Hugh McLeod
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University of Birmingham
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Every century of Christian history has had its saints, regarded as holy men and women by their fellow believers, and held up as models by religious authority. But ideas of holiness are continually evolving: the saints of one generation may seem quite unsaintly to another generation. And if saints are exceptional individuals, more numerous are those who have been seen or have been presented as models of what it means to be a Christian within a particular profession. Here too perceptions may change radically as the status of particular professions in Christian thinking changes.

While many important books have been written on the Christian saints of earlier centuries, very little attempt has so far been made to explore twentieth-century concepts of sanctity, and the role models presented to or adopted by Christians in that century. In view of the paucity of relevant secondary sources, this chapter is a preliminary exploration of the theme, and it is limited to notions of sanctity and role models recognised in the Western world.

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The Cambridge History of Christianity , pp. 618 - 635
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2006

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  • Role models
  • Edited by Hugh McLeod
  • Book: The Cambridge History of Christianity
  • Online publication: 28 March 2008
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521815000.033
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  • Role models
  • Edited by Hugh McLeod
  • Book: The Cambridge History of Christianity
  • Online publication: 28 March 2008
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521815000.033
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