Martyrs, Katechontes and Heroes as Figures of Disseminated Charisma

What is it about?

Charisma begins by signifying the grace that derives through multiple channels from Christ’s redemptive sacrifice. After Christ, other sacred deaths will come to be associated with that grace, particularly the lives of the martyrs, but also those of political heroes. The paper examines the grace associated with the life of martyrs and its theological-political analogy with the life of political heroes as dispensators of some kind of grace and salvation.

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