Profiles in discipleship stories of faith and courage / [electronic resource] :
Gregory C. Higgins.
- New York : Paulist Press, c2011.
- 1 online resource (vii, 262 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references.
Children of light (Augustine of Hippo and Gregory the Great) -- Seekers (Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross) -- Sons and daughters of God (Athanasius and Gregory Palamas) -- Strangers (the desert fathers and mothers and Thomas Merton) -- Soldiers (Martin Luther and Ignatius of Loyola -- Peacemakers (Leo Tolstoy and Dorothy Day) -- Liberators (Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Desmond Tutu) -- Servants (Albert Schweitzer and Mother Teresa) -- Artists (Hildegard of Bingen and Albrecht Dürer) -- Protest poets (John Greenleaf Whittier and Daniel Berrigan) -- Builders (Walter Rauschenbusch and Teilhard de Chardin) -- Fellow travelers (Jacques Dupuis and Br. Roger Schutz of Taizé).