Flesh Made Word
Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination
by Aviad Kleinberg
translated by Jane Marie Todd
ISBN: 9780674026476
$29.95 Hardcover
Belknap Press
In the fourth century a new narrative genre captured the imagination of the faithful--the moving accounts of the lives of Christian saints.
In this original and provocative work, Aviad Kleinberg argues that the saints’ stories of medieval Europe were more than edifying entertainment; they retain an alternative theology, often quite different from the formal theology of the Church. By telling and retelling the story of virtue and salvation, by expanding the religious imagination of the West, they were shaping and reshaping Christianity itself.
|
