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• Introduction: biography and typology
• 1. Constantine: the authorised life
• 2. Gregory and Basil: a double life
• 3. Antony and Jerome: life on the edge
• 4. Augustine: the life of the mind
• 5. The end of sacred history
• Conclusion: authorised lives.
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What was distinctive about Christian biography in late antiquity? In this book, Dr Williams examines a range of biographies of prominent Christians written in the fourth and fifth centuries, and suggests that they share a purpose and function which sets them apart from their non-Christian equivalents. This was an age in which the lives of saints first emerged as a literary phenomenon, and a broad perspective on this developing genre is complemented by close readings of more problematic works such as Eusebius of Caesarea's Life of Constantine and the Confessions of Augustine of Hippo. In including such idiosyncratic examples, the aim is to provide a definition of Christian biography which extends beyond mere hagiography, and which expresses a new understanding of the world and the place of individuals within it. It was a world in which lives might be authored by Christians, but could be authorised only by God.
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This study explores the taxing question of whether Christ-Learning should be an ongoing process by presenting examples of the critical and personal learning undertaken by minds exercised with scholarship, ecclesiology, poetry, the novel and sexuality. While the responses to faith in Christ of the seven chosen figures Chr(45) Richard Hooker, John Henry Newman, Robert Browning, William Faulkner, Rudyard Kipling, Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde Chr(45) are highly personal, it is the theme of "education", which was at the heart of every Messianic achievement, that throws up confrontations to the orthodox approach to faith. These individuals are eminently representative of biography wrestling with what the New Testament Scripture first understood. Their experiences can be signified in a New Testament play on words: "emathen apathen" Chr(45) "suffering they learned, learning they suffered".
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• Includes indexes.

• Cannibal talk, by J. L. Sherrill.--Something made me go, by M. Aussant.--Gang war, by D. Wilkerson.--Race to save a traitor, by E. Lundby as told to H. Cronsioe.--Facing death on the Atlantic, by D. L. Moody.--Am I my brother's keeper? By C. Coffey.--The ice-pan adventure, by W. Grenfell.--Out of the dungeon, by C. Marshall.--Four-footed angel, by O. Broadway as told to E. L. Vogt.--My grave was number 12, by J. Lee as told to E. Erny.--Blizzard, by O. A. Hunter.--A gentleman in prison, by T. Ishii.--Christmas Eve miracle, by A. Lake.--Birth on death row, by A. Sanford.--Return from tomorrow, by G. C. Ritchie, Jr.--Fire! By C. Marshall.--We thought we heard the angels sing, by J. C. Whittaker.

• Luther, 1483-1546.--More, 1478-1535.--Loyola, 1491-1556.--Cranmer, 1489-1556.--Calvin, 1509-1564.--Knox, 1505-1572.--Coligny, 1519-1572.--William the Silent, 1533-1584.--Brewster, 1560-1644.--Laud, 1573-1645.--Cromwell, 1599-1658.--Bunyan, 1628-1688.--Fox, 1624-1691.--Wesley, 1703-1791.

• By way of introduction: Of reformers, schismatics, heretics, apostates, sectarians, and radicals.--The impatient revolutionary: Thomas Müntzer.--The lonely individualist: Sebastian Franck.--The founding father: George Fox.--The private scholar: Thomas Chubb.--The agnostic infidel: David Friedrich Strauss.--Epilogue.--Bibliography and notes (p. 167-176)