Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus The True Life and Trials of Nicholas of Myra

Name: Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus The True Life and Trials of Nicholas of Myra
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ISBN: 9781602586345

ISBN-10: 1602586349

ISBN-13: 9781602586345

Edition: 2012

Authors: Adam C. English

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"With his rosy cheeks and matching red suitand ever-present elf and reindeer companionsSanta Claus may be the most identifiable of fantastical characters. But what do we really know of jolly old Saint Nicholas, ""patron saint"" of Christmastime? Ask about the human behind the suit, and the tale we know so well quickly fades into myth and folklore.In The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus, religious historian Adam English tells the true and compelling tale of Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myra. Around the fourth century in what is now Turkey, a boy of humble circumstance became a man revered for his many virtues. Chief among them was dealing generously with his possessions, once lifting an entire…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 242
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Adam C. English (Ph.D., Baylor University) is an associate professor in the department of religion and philosophy at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina. He has published articles and book reviews in Christian Ethics Today, Perspectives in Religious Studies and the Journal of Church and State. English is an ordained minister in the Baptist tradition and the author of The Possibility of Christian Philosophy (Rutledge, 2007).



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Finding St. Nicholas



Out of a Dying World Comes a Light



Three Gifts and One Election



The Work of Victory



Riots; Beheadings, and Other Near Misfortunes



Death Is Only the Beginning


Notes


Recommended Reading


Index