Church Fathers and Teachers: From Leo The Great to Peter Lombard

Church Fathers and Teachers: From Leo The Great to Peter Lombard

by Pope Benedict XVI
Church Fathers and Teachers: From Leo The Great to Peter Lombard

Church Fathers and Teachers: From Leo The Great to Peter Lombard

by Pope Benedict XVI

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Overview

After meditating on the Apostles and then on the Fathers of the early Church, as seen in his earlier works Jesus, the Apostles and the Early Church and Church Fathers, Pope Benedict XVI devoted his attention to the most influential Christian men from the fifth through the twelfth centuries. In his first book, Church Fathers, Benedict began with Clement of Rome and ended with Saint Augustine. In this volume, the Holy Father reflects on some of the greatest theologians of the Middle Ages: Benedict, Anselm, Bernard, and Gregory the Great, to name just a few. By exploring both the lives and the ideas of the great popes, abbots, scholars and missionaries who lived during the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christendom, Pope Benedict XVI highlights the key elements of Catholic dogma and practice that remain the foundation stones not only of the Roman Catholic Church but of Christian society itself. This book is a wonderful way to get to know these later Church Fathers and Teachers and the tremendous spiritually rich patrimony they have bequeathed to us.

"Without this vital sap, man is exposed to the danger of succumbing to the ancient temptation of seeking to redeem himself by himself."
- Pope Benedict XVI


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781681491004
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Publication date: 05/03/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 215
File size: 292 KB

About the Author

Pope Benedict XVI is widely recognized as one of the most brilliant theologians and spiritual leaders of our age. As Pope he authored the best-selling Jesus of Nazareth; and prior to his pontificate, he wrote many influential books that continue to remain important for the contemporary Church, such as Introduction to Christianity and The Spirit of the Liturgy.

Table of Contents

1 Saint Leo the Great 7

2 Boethius and Cassiodorus 12

3 Saint Benedict of Norcia 19

4 Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite 25

5 Saint Romanus the Melodist 31

6 Saint Gregory the Great (1) 37

7 Saint Gregory the Great (2) 43

8 Saint Columban 49

9 Saint Isidore of Seville 55

10 Saint Maximus the Confessor 60

11 John Climacus 66

12 Saint Bede, the Venerable 73

13 Saint Boniface, the Apostle of the Germans 79

14 Ambrose Autpert 86

15 Germanus of Constantinople 93

16 John Damascene 99

17 Saint Theodore the Studite 105

18 Rabanus Maurus 111

19 John Scotus Erigena 117

20 Saints Cyril and Methodius 123

21 Saint Odo of Cluny 129

22 Saint Peter Damian 135

23 Symeon the New Theologian 141

24 Saint Anselm 146

25 Peter the Venerable 152

26 Saint Bernard of Clairvaux 157

27 Monastic Theology and Scholastic Theology 163

28 Two Theological Models in Comparison: Bernard and Abelard 169

29 The Cluniac Reform 174

30 The Cathedral from the Romanesque to the Gothic Architecture: The Theological Background 179

31 Hugh and Richard of Saint-Victor 185

32 William of Saint-Thierry 192

33 Rupert of Deutz 198

34 John of Salisbury 204

35 Peter Lombard 210

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