The spirituality of martyrdom ... to the limits of love / Servais Pinckaers, OP ; translated by Patrick M. Clark & Annie Hounsokou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinckaers, Servais, author.

Standardized Title:

Spiritualité du martyre ... jusqu'au bout de l'amour. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Martyrdom--Christianity.

Martyrdom.

Physical Description:

xxi, 150 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2016]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

Originally Published in French in 2000, The Spirituality of Martyrdom is a brief and accessible yet sweeping study of the spiritual significance attached to martyrdom in the early centuries of the Christian Church. Although studies of early Christian martyrdom have proliferated in recent decades, this book stands out by conveying to a wider audience the essence of this spirituality in its relevance to both theology and the life of every astute Christian today. This book aims to illuminate the intelligibility of the Church's veneration of martyrs in relation to its fundamental beliefs and practices and seeks to relate this intelligibility to the broader Catholic moral tradition. The preface by Patrick Clark highlights how this volume is oriented toward the fields of moral theology and Thomistic ethics in light of the other key contributions the late Father Pinckaers made to those disciplines. Book jacket.

Contents:

An overview of the spirituality of martyrdom

The definition of martyrdom: the martyr is a witness

Martyrdom and the Eucharist

Martyrdom and eschatology

The summit of the spirituality of martyrdom

Clement of Rome's Letter to the Corinthians

Tertullian: the treatise Ad Martyras

The spirituality of martyrdom in St. Augustine

Martyrdom in the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-143) and index.

ISBN:

9780813228532

0813228530

OCLC:

930447513