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The purple crown : the politics of martyrdom
- Title
- The purple crown : the politics of martyrdom / Tripp York ; foreword by John D. Roth.
- Author
- York, Tripp.
- Publication
- Scottdale, Pa. : Herald Press, [2007], ©2007.
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Details
- Description
- 199 pages; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Polyglossia ; 2
- Uniform Title
- Polyglossia ; 2.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-193) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / John D. Roth -- Introduction: Martyrdom, Politics, Liturgy, and Discipleship -- 1. Spectacle: The Early Church -- All the World's a Stage -- Basic Training: Learning How to Die Well -- A Second (Orthodox) Baptism -- The Purple Crown -- 2. Body: The Field of Combat -- Doxological Bodies -- No Bones About It: The Body of Polycarp -- The Seed Blooms: Resurrection -- The Risen One (A Reply to Caecilius) -- 3. Performance: The Sixteenth-Century Debacle -- Whose Martyrdom, Which Ecclesiology? -- Who Do You Say I Am? (On Locating Visible Performances of the Church) -- Apostolic Succession (A Rather Bloody One) -- Performing Jesus -- 4. City: Enduring Enoch -- Citizens of Everywhere and Nowhere: The Lineage of Abel -- The Fruition of Cain: The Modern Nation-State -- Galuth: Exile as Mission -- The New City -- 5. Biography: Oscar Romero -- Sentir con la Iglesia -- "Be a Patriot, Kill a Priest!" -- Entregado -- The Purple Crown Revisited -- Epilogue: Gift-A Non-sacrificial Economy -- Martyrs, Not Victims -- A Eucharistic Economy -- Vita autem hominis, visio Dei.
- ISBN
- 9780836193930 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0836193938 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007031764
- OCLC
- 163593814
- ocn163593814
- SCSB-5396537
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries