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Gandhi represents 20th century politics' closest brush with sainthood. Yet in this season of celebrating his character, little attention has been given to his context. Or rather, the wrong attention. The usual objection raised against Gandhi is: What would he have done against France? It is important to insist on the right question, because to say that Gandhi would have failed against the radical and unique evil of Nazi Germany is to say merely that he would have failed against history's exception (and done no worse than much of a heavily armed and decidedly non-pacifist Europe...
...think all exams insist at the top. "Illustrate", "Be specific"; etc? They mean it. The illustrations needn't of course be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered through your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List, Name at least the titles of every other book Hume ever wrote; don't just say "Medieval cathedrals"--name nine. Think of a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your...
...hard to see why Bryant is a cherished man, but he is not a candidate for sainthood. "All of the other schools were doing it, so we did it too," he openly confesses his Texas A&M recruiting sins, the usual ones involving cash and cars. While the infamous Junction, Texas, training camp of 1954 is a fond piece of his fable to some, Bryant is not proud of running 69 of 96 Aggie football players off the team. The brutal 110° F heat was not the only brutality. "It was terrible," he says. "All my life...
Tsar Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, would seem to some an unlikely candidate for sainthood. He consulted faith healers, intervened highhandedly in church affairs and ruled with a sublime ineffectiveness that helped pave the way for the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. But last week in New York City, Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, their son and four daughters, all murdered in 1918 by the Bolsheviks, became saints. In an unprecedented ceremony of glorification, they, along with some 30,000 other Russian Orthodox Christians killed by the Soviets, were named "martyrs" and canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia...
Orthodox theology stresses martyrdom as a sign of holiness in a potential saint. Determination of sainthood is a much less formal matter than in the Roman Catholic Church, where a lengthy, legalistic procedure emphasizes an exemplary moral life and the performance of miracles after death. An Orthodox candidate need only have suffered and died for the faith, and the Orthodox communion of saints includes hundreds of thousands of such martyrs...