From the Table of Contents
Personification Allegory and the Embodied
Christ (Christian Souls in Battles Between Good and Evil; Martinu’s
Play About a Play)
National Heroes (God’s Country—God’s
Victories?; St. Joan of Arc, called “the Maid”: Freedom Fighter or
Heretic?; St. Thomas, Bishop and Martyr: Tough Politician or Good
Shepherd?; Two Dreamers of Nordic Nations Pious and Just)
Antiheroes (God’s Unlikely Torchbearers ;
Through the Dark Night to Love: Thérèse’s Little Way;
Blanche “de la Force”: The Strength of Conquered Fear; “Who by God’s
Love is Wounded”: A Saint in Manhattan; Womanizer Turned Angel of the
Poor: Miguel Mañara; Mary of Egypt and the Wisdom of
Non-judgment)
Messengers of Christ’s Saving Grace (God’s
Heralds; Chosen to Warn: John of Patmos; Two Early Christian
Missionaries; Two Conflicted Reformers)
Teachers of the Compassionate Path (God’s
Creatures—Our Suffering Siblings; Poverty, Humility, and Glorification
of the Lord; Liberation Through Self-control: The Buddha and the
Mahatma)
Charismatics and Mystics (God’s Intimates;
Three Foundresses and Peacemakers; The Lonely Voices of Hadewijch and
Maria Maddalena)
Victims and Martyrs (God’s Witnesses unto
Death; Saint Paul in Nero’s Rome; Arrow, Fire, and Gridiron in
Third-century Rome; A Pacifist Among Bellicose Knights: Magnus of
Orkney; Tyrannicide and Conscience under Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Music-dramatic Representations of the
Numinous and Exemplary in Post-WWII Opera.
