The thought of Gregory the Great [electronic resource] / G.R. Evans.

By: Evans, G. R. (Gillian Rosemary)

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought: 4th ser., 2.Publisher: Cambridge Cambridgeshire ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986Description: xi, 164 p. ; tables ; 22 cmISBN: 0521309042Subject(s): Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604 | Pastoral theology -- Early works to 1800Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification: 230/.14/0924 LOC classification: BR65.G56 | E93 1986Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents

Contents:

Gregory's life -- Gregory's world of thought -- Consideration -- Talk Of God -- Gregory's world of discourse -- Language -- Signs, prophecy and miracles -- Speculative theology -- Moral theology -- The art of preaching -- The preacher -- Exegesis -- Inward And Outward: Spirituality In The World -- Light and silence -- Contemplation and action -- Monastic order -- Rectus Ordo -- The bishop -- Division.

Summary: 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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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 155-161.

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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