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The Thought of Gregory the Great

By G. R. Evans

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1988
ISBN
052136826X, 9780521368261, 0521309042, 9780521309042
LCC
BR65.G56 E93 1986
Google Books ID
276qdQQzzXIC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6546676 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
Pages
175\175
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

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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