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Why ‘Saints’ matter

“…44 That is why I disagree with scholars such as Tom Wright who wish all the emphasis to be on the eschaton. So worried is he by the Church's traditional position on the saints that he has even proposed abandoning All Saints' Day and its associated hymns, 45 something that would have worried John Wesley, so scarcely just a conventional Catholic/Protestant dispute. 46 While Wright is quite correct in objecting to the way in which saints were sometimes treated as more like influential patrons ready to act for their clients before the divine King, 47 he errs badly in my view in ignoring this more corporate dimension to the Christian faith.…”