Who's Who in Theology.Chenu, Danielou, Guardini, and John Courtnay Murray. We also need to suggest Dorothy Day Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist turned social activist and devout member of the Catholic Church. She became known for her social justice campaigns in defense of the poor, forsaken, hungry and homeless. and Peter Maurin Peter Maurin (May 9, 1877 – May 15, 1949 born in Oultet, France) was a Catholic activist who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement with Dorothy Day in 1933. Maurin was born into a poor farming family in southern France, where he was the oldest of 21 siblings. . And also....But, let me stop. Half the fun of owning this little book would be listing favorite authors who are absent from it. P.S. Gertrude of Helfta and Flannery O' Connor and .... As late as the beginning of this century scholars considered the vitae of early Frankish female saints as fictions gussied gus·sy tr.v. gus·sied, gus·sy·ing, gus·sies Slang To dress or decorate elaborately; adorn or embellish: gussied herself up in sequins and feathers. up by Carolingian forgers who transformed pagan divinities into Christian saints. Scholars, preeminently the Bollandist, Hippolyte Delahaye, demolished that theory by showing that these stories were connected to places where a cult and a tradition could be traced back to Gallo-Roman times. Jo Ann McNamara and her collaborators have translated eighteen of these early lives and presented them to us in a book with a wonderful introduction and copious co·pi·ous adj. 1. Yielding or containing plenty; affording ample supply: a copious harvest. See Synonyms at plentiful. 2. notes. This is an exemplary contribution to the ongoing recovery of the history of women in the Christian tradition Christian traditions are traditions of practice or belief associated with Christianity. The term has several connected meanings. In terms of belief, traditions are generally stories or history that are or were widely accepted without being part of Christian doctrine. . It will get, I suspect, wide use in university courses. |
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