After explaining the religious and historical dimension of sainthood, this article focuses on the importance it came to take on in Christianity. Over the centuries, a specific theology developed, with recognition of the «signs of holiness», preservation of the saints’ memory in the liturgy and in works of history/ biography, promotion of the saints’ cults, and development of centralized institutions for their official recognition. In the long history of religious experiences, through which people have pursued the ideal of perfection through the choice of lifestyle, ascetic practices, and the exercise of virtue, the centrality of «recognition» is individualized. Starting from one individual choice, we see a progression through the phase of s...
This article has the objective of present resumid discussion about the christians repre-sentations, ...
This article brings to one’s attention aspect of the life of Jesus—such as his spirituality, his esc...
The question concerning the future of the church is intimately connected wich the theme of the missi...
According to «theology of holiness», the lives of saints are a «theological place». Thus, the heroic...
El artículo aborda el impacto que sobre el imaginario colectivo de una comunidad local andaluza de e...
A Companhia de Jesus foi uma das instituições mais atuantes e influentes do mundo ocidental durante ...
A Companhia de Jesus foi uma das instituições mais atuantes e influentes do mundo ocidental durante ...
O artigo procura apresentar a produção historiográfica mais recente sobre o tema da santidade. Sem p...
As the Visigothic Councils and Saint Isidore's texts shows, the Hispanic catedral clergy was obliged...
Tendo como pano de fundo a questão da escrita e da edição de «Vidas» de santos, beatos, veneráveis e...
The article first addresses, from a statistical approach and hermeneutic approach, different studies...
Though started in a quasi-official manner in 1773, the cult in Spain to the Sacred Heart of Jesus di...
Esta tesis desarrolla un estudio históricoteológico de los diversos aspectos doctrinales y pastorale...
On the background of this study is the writing and publishing of «Lives» of saints, blessed, venerab...
Over the course of the Middle Ages, the number of the sacraments was set at seven. Two of them were ...
This article has the objective of present resumid discussion about the christians repre-sentations, ...
This article brings to one’s attention aspect of the life of Jesus—such as his spirituality, his esc...
The question concerning the future of the church is intimately connected wich the theme of the missi...
According to «theology of holiness», the lives of saints are a «theological place». Thus, the heroic...
El artículo aborda el impacto que sobre el imaginario colectivo de una comunidad local andaluza de e...
A Companhia de Jesus foi uma das instituições mais atuantes e influentes do mundo ocidental durante ...
A Companhia de Jesus foi uma das instituições mais atuantes e influentes do mundo ocidental durante ...
O artigo procura apresentar a produção historiográfica mais recente sobre o tema da santidade. Sem p...
As the Visigothic Councils and Saint Isidore's texts shows, the Hispanic catedral clergy was obliged...
Tendo como pano de fundo a questão da escrita e da edição de «Vidas» de santos, beatos, veneráveis e...
The article first addresses, from a statistical approach and hermeneutic approach, different studies...
Though started in a quasi-official manner in 1773, the cult in Spain to the Sacred Heart of Jesus di...
Esta tesis desarrolla un estudio históricoteológico de los diversos aspectos doctrinales y pastorale...
On the background of this study is the writing and publishing of «Lives» of saints, blessed, venerab...
Over the course of the Middle Ages, the number of the sacraments was set at seven. Two of them were ...
This article has the objective of present resumid discussion about the christians repre-sentations, ...
This article brings to one’s attention aspect of the life of Jesus—such as his spirituality, his esc...
The question concerning the future of the church is intimately connected wich the theme of the missi...