Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Biographies : Research, Results, and Reading

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This volume presents methodological aspects of writing ecclesiastical biographies as well as their relevancy to a broad spectrum of disciplines besides Church history, such as general history, Slavic studies and history of literature. Spiritual biographies spanning in time from Augustine to modern times, and in space from Sweden to South Africa, are discussed from both existential and theological perspectives. The use of historical sources, the biographer’s role and the reader’s use of the biography are also treated in the 22 contributions. Anders Jarlert: Preface 7 Anders Cullhed: Spiritual Autobiographies: Augustine as a Case in Point 9 Carina Nynäs: The Biographical Images of St Birgitta: Some Reflections 13 Robert Swanson: Moulding Margery: The Life and Afterlives of Margery Kempe 24 Marie-Louise Rodén: Conversion as a Biographical Problem: The Infamous Case of Queen Christina of Sweden 37 Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin: The Biography of Bishop Francis Kirwan: Pii antistitis icon, sive de vita et morte Rmi. D. Francisci Kirovani Alladensis Episcopi 45 Urban Claesson: Olof Ekman (1639–1713) – An Ordinary Swedish Pastor as a Pioneer for Pietism. Perspectives on Writing Ecclesiastical Biographies in the Tension between Local and International Contexts 54 Yves Krumenacker: Protestant or Deist? Marie Huber’s Case 62 Eva Haettner Aurelius: Guilt and Identity. An Autobiographical Incentive in Christian Tradition with Special Emphasis on the Female Moravian Lebenslauf 76 Daniel Lindmark: Saami Exemplary Narratives, Transnational Print Culture, and Religious Reading Experience by the Turn of the 18th Century 82 Oloph Bexell: The Clergy – The most Biographed Profession in Sweden. On the Reference Books Herdaminne as a more than 200-year-old Field of Research 97 Janice Holmes: The “Absence” of Family in 19-Century Irish Presbyterian Clerical Biographies 105 Hartmut Lehmann: Different Lessons: Carl Hinrichs and Jochen Klepper as Biographers of the Prussian King Frederick William I 121 Joel Halldorf: Storytelling and Evangelical Identities 128 Jean-Marc Ticchi: The Biography of a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church: G. Sinopoli di Giunta’s Book Il cardinale Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro 140 Per-Arne Bodin: From Biography to Hymnography. On the Canonization of Patriarch Tikhon 148 Antón M. Pazos: Recent Biographies of 20th-Century Popes. Some Comments 166 Jonas Jonson: Between Objectivity and Hagiography. To Write the Lives of Gustaf Aulén and Nathan Söderblom 176 Regina Laukaitytė: The Holocaust Theme in the Memoirs and Biographies of the Hierarchs of the Catholic Church of Lithuania 182 Aila Lauha: The Cold War and Ecclesiastical Biography in Finland 194 Christian Sorrel: Episcopal Biographies and Religious Historiography of the French Contemporary Period 209 Rev. Enock Bongani Zulu: The Contributions of Bishop Dr Manas Buthelezi as a Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Leader from 1969–2012 217 Anders Jarlert: Writing Existential Biographies as Ecclesiastical History 233 The Authors 241