The theological role of biography

This article explores the role of biography in Christian theology. For the greater part of Christian history, biography has played a key devotional and apologetic role by providing models of how the one life of Christ is at work in the saints. Following the Reformation, biographies of Protestant mar...

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Main Author: Plant, Stephen (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2023
In: Theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 126, Issue: 3, Pages: 164-173
IxTheo Classification:FA Theology
KAA Church history
KCD Hagiography; saints
NBE Anthropology
Further subjects:B Foxe
B Bonhoeffer
B Biography
B Hagiography
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