The Cult of Saints/The Meaning of Saints
Tavard, George H.
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...The very existence of Protestantism shows that sainthood conceived as a locus of the divine for all generations--and not only for the saint himself--is not a necessary option...
...George H. Tavard WHILE sainthood belongs inseparably to the Christian theology of grace, saints seem to belong rather to folklore and, at least in Catholicism and Orthodoxy, to liturgy and prayer...
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