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Title

A tremor of bliss : contemporary writers on the saints / edited by Paul Elie, introduction by Robert Coles.

Publication

New York : Harcourt Brace, c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Elie, Paul, 1965-
• Elie, Paul.

Description

xxv, 325 p.; 19 cm.

Summary

In these essays the saints appear as paradoxes: like T.S. Eliot's St. Thomas Becket, they have felt "a tremor of bliss," but they must fight all-too-mortal battles with despair, social indifference, and hardness of heart.

Subject

• Christian life > Catholic authors
• Christian saints > Cult

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Robert Coles -- Saint Francis of Assisi : il poverello / Bruce Bawer -- Saint Catherine of Siena : Catherine means pure / Kathryn Harrison -- Saint David, Patron Saint of Wales : a friend to the godless / Paul Watkins -- Saint Perpetua : called by name / Susan Bergman -- Saint Thomas Aquinas : nuns, prophecies, communists, the bomb, the dread of angels, reason, faith, and the Summa theologica / Richard Bausch -- Saint Robert Bellarmine : a moderate in a disputatious age / Avery Dulles -- Saint Ignatius of Loyola : the pilgrim / Ron Hansen -- Saint Teresa of Ávila : the ironic doctor / Francine Prose -- Saint John of the Cross : proceed in darkness / David Plante -- Saint Jean de Brébeuf : second thoughts on certainty : Saint Jean de Brébeuf among the Hurons / Tobias Wolff -- Saint Lazarus : my left feet / Enrique Fernández -- Saint Joseph : a family man / Paul Braumann -- Saint Thomas, Apostle : seen and not seen / Paul Elie -- The virgin martyrs : between "point vierge" and the "usual spring" / Kathleen Norris -- Our Lady of Guadalupe : Our Lady of Guadalupe and the soup / Nancy Mairs -- Dorothy Day : the exemplar / Martin E. Marty -- Saint Lawrence : the communion of saints / Lawrence Joseph.

ISBN

0151001014 :

LCCN

^^^94022332^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library