David Matzko McCarthy is professor of theology and associate provost at Mount St. Mary's University, Emmitsburg, Maryland. His other books include Gathered for the Journey: Moral Theology in Catholic Perspective (with M. Therese Lysaught) and Sharing God's Good Company: A Theology of the Communion of Saints.
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M. Therese Lysaught -- Marquette University "Removing the contemporary mask that makes us forget that the saints remain alive, here and now, McCarthy excises them from frameworks of misinterpretation (both pious and postmodern) and puts them into context -- both ours and their own. Here we meet the saints in all their messy, material, brilliant, theologically powerful complexity." Lawrence S. Cunningham -- University of Notre Dame "This carefully researched and clearly written book ably shows the saints to be timeless and timely. . . . A valuable resource for theological reflection." Liguorian "McCarthy examines the lives of specific saints to show how they are both timeless and timely. He pulls them out of the pious frameworks that have sometimes imprisoned them and puts them into their own contexts, where we can meet them in all their unruly, essential, luminous, and theologically formidable complexity. . . . Catholic scholars and interested general readers will find this book instructive and stimulating."