Gregory the Great was, after Augustine of Hippo, perhaps the most influential of the Fathers in the Latin West during the Middle Ages. He put Augustine's thought into a form which proved accessible and acceptable to mediaeval readers, and he added much of his own, notably in his preaching, in which he interpreted the Bible with equal emphasis on the practical living of a good Christian life and the aspiration of the soul towards God and the life to come. This study looks at Gregory's thought as a whole and tries to show what was most important to him and the way he arrived at a balance between the active and the contemplative, the 'outward' and the 'inward' in his own mind. There is a tailpiece on the influence of his ideas in later centuries.
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Reveals how Gregory the Great was, after Augustine of Hippo, among the most influential of the Fathers in the Latin West during the Middle Ages. In addition to documenting Gregory's influence on his own age, the text describes the impact of his ideas on later centuries.
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In the early Homilies on the Gospels which Gregory preached at the Roman basilica and in the Homilies he gave on the Book of Ezekiel when he was deeply afraid of a Lombard invasion, the fearsome happenings of the times occupied his thoughts constantly. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In the early Homilies on the Gospels which Gregory preached at the Roman basilica and in the Homilies he gave on the Book of Ezekiel when he was deeply afraid of a Lombard invasion, the fearsome happenings of the times occupied his thoughts constantly. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Holy Spirit, Middle Ages, Peter the Deacon, Emperor Maurice, Word of God, Church History, Eastern Patriarchs, Holy Scripture, Song of Songs, Cambridge Mediaeval History, John of St Lucy, Western Mysticism New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Early Christian Thought and the Classical Tradition by Henry Chadwick on page 56, and Back Matter
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- The Western Church in the Middle Ages (Hodder Arnold Publication) by John A. F. Thomson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Rescue for the Dead: The Posthumous Salvation of Non-Christians in Early Christianity (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology) by Jeffrey A. Trumbower in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series) by Patrick Amory on page 234, and Back Matter
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