Reading The Gospels With Gregory The Great

Author : Pope Gregory I
Publisher : St Bede's Publications
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1879007444

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Reading the Gospels with Gregory the Great by Pope Gregory I Pdf

Gregory the Great (c. 560-604 C.E.) occupies a key position in the development of Christian commentary on the Scriptures. Pope and political leader during a chaotic era of transition in the history of Western Europe, he may be best known for his famous encounter with English children in the Roman slave market and his commissioning of St. Augustine of Canterbury's subsequent mission to England. Gregory's "Homilies on the Gospels" were first preached in 591-92, early in his papacy, and were very popular for their vigorous and engaging style. Using simple words to preach to the nobles and common people of Rome, Gregory employs metaphors, analogies, stories and images to answer basic questions of faith. His exegetical interpretation may often seem simplistic to the modern reader, but shows his dependence on earlier patristic tradition and reveals his pastoral heart. -- Book cover.

Author : Pope Gregory I
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015019438012

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Forty Gospel Homilies by Pope Gregory I Pdf

In these 40 sermons on the Gospel, Gregory the Great can be seen as both pastor and preacher. He pays attention to the historical details of Scripture, seeks out its moral application to daily Christian life, and through it reflects on the hidden reality of God. He believed that the Christian study of the Scripture entailed a personal engagement with mystery and openness to transformation, as an attempt to achieve individual perception of the divine while one is still bound by earthly and bodily ties.

Author : James Barmby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600102460

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Gregory the great. (Fathers for Engl. readers). by James Barmby Pdf

Author : Gregory The Great,Dom Hurst OSB
Publisher : Gorgias PressLlc
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1607241471

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Forty Gospel Homilies by Gregory The Great,Dom Hurst OSB Pdf

At the dividing line between Antiquity and the Middle Ages, scholar-diplomat-pastor-writer-pope Gregory the Great drew on his profound knowledge of Scripture and his personal experience to preach the Gospel. These forty homilies show the practical concerns Gregory faced as well as the theological expectations he had of his flock.

Author : Felice Lifshitz
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823256891

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Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia by Felice Lifshitz Pdf

Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia, a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and monastic culture of the Main Valley during the eighth century, looks closely at a group of manuscripts associated with some of the best-known personalities of the European Middle Ages, including Boniface of Mainz and his “beloved,”abbess Leoba of Tauberbischofsheim. This is the first study of these “Anglo-Saxon missionaries to Germany” to delve into the details of their lives by studying the manuscripts that were produced in their scriptoria and used in their communities. The author explores how one group of religious women helped to shape the culture of medieval Europe through the texts they wrote and copied, as well as through their editorial interventions. Using compelling manuscript evidence, she argues that the content of the women’s books was overwhelmingly gender-egalitarian and frequently feminist (i.e., resistant to patriarchal ideas). This intriguing book provides unprecedented glimpses into the “feminist consciousness” of the women’s and mixed-sex communities that flourished in the early Middle Ages.

Author : John Moorhead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134568161

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Gregory the Great by John Moorhead Pdf

Gregory's life culminated in his holding the office of pope (590 - 604). He is generally regarded as one of the outstanding figures in the long line of popes, and by the late ninth century had come to be known as 'the Great'. Along with Ambrose, Jerome and Augustine, he played a critical role in the history of his time, while during the middle ages his intellectual influence was second only to that of Augustine. This volume provides a biographical and intellectual context to Gregory the Great, and new translations of his most influential writings.

Author : Pope Francis
Publisher : Image
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780593238165

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Reflections on the Sunday Gospel by Pope Francis Pdf

Pope Francis illuminates a new, vibrant way of experiencing the Gospel through moving, intimate, and deeply meditative reflections that encourage us to live fully with meaning, purpose, and strength. We live in an unprecedented time that has threatened to upend our daily rhythms, our work, our homes, even our faith. More than ever, we need books like Reflections on the Sunday Gospel to stir us to hope, to comfort, to peace. We need to remember what we live for and how good God is. These reflections—published in English for the first time, drawn both from homilies given by Pope Francis and readings from the Fathers of the Church, including Saint Augustine, Saint Jerome, and Saint Ambrose—do more than offer a way to enter into the liturgical year with weekly readings to enrich your devotional time. They offer Christ, and the power of His resurrection. They offer His words of assurance: “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world” (Jn 16:33, ESV). Ultimately, as Pope Francis guides us through these timeless words, we will glean how even the giants of the faith needed God as much as we do, and how we can draw near to a good and faithful God no matter where we are or what season we’re in.

Author : Felice Lifshitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000864052

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Reading Gender by Felice Lifshitz Pdf

This collection brings together twelve essays published between 1988 and 2014, two of which are here translated into English from (respectively) their original French or German. All the essays use gender as the main category of analysis, whether of late ancient or early medieval texts or of modern medievalist films. The historical studies of medieval Europe emphasize the use of manuscript-level evidence, that is, actual sources from the period in question; arguably, this approach provides a more accurate understanding of the period than does work done on the basis of printed and edited sources. Furthermore, many of the manuscript-based essays specifically exploit liturgical or liturgy-adjacent materials; this is an area of research and a type of manuscript that has rarely been approached through a gendered lens. Meanwhile, the cinematic medievalism essays focus on the processes of remediation and adaptation, searching specifically for points at which filmmaking teams diverged from their sources as evidence for the main goals of the films (while also attending to production contexts and to reception). The juxtaposition in a single collection of scholarship on medieval manuscripts and modern movies illustrates how period specialists can contribute to conversations in the field of (historical) film studies. The book will be of interest to historians of women, gender, Christian liturgy, medieval Europe, medievalism, and historical film. (CS 1110).

Author : Hughes Oliphant Old
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802843573

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The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, Volume 2 by Hughes Oliphant Old Pdf

Hughes Oliphant Old surveys the history of preaching in the Greek schools of Alexandria and Antioch, in the Syriac church, and throughout the Christian Empire, concluding with the preaching of Leo the Great, Peter Chrysologos, and Gregory.l

Author : Saint Bede (the Venerable)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39076002435001

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Homilies on the Gospels: Lent to the Dedication of the Church by Saint Bede (the Venerable) Pdf

From the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, Bede's authority as a scriptural exegete was second only to that of the Doctors of the Latin Church. His influence was enormous. Yet modern readers associate this remarkable scholar-monk only with his History of the English Church and Nation and ignore the works he saw as his chief accomplishment. - Back cover of book 1.

Author : Beverly Mayne Kienzle
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978708020

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Hildegard of Bingen, Gospel Interpreter by Beverly Mayne Kienzle Pdf

In Hildegard of Bingen, Gospel Interpreter, Beverly Mayne Kienzle presents and acquaints readers with Hildegard’s fifty-eight Homilies on the Gospels―a dazzling summa of her theology and the culmination of her visionary insight and scriptural knowledge. Part one probes how a twelfth-century woman became the only known female Gospel interpreter of the Middle Ages. It includes an examination of Hildegard’s epistemology―how she received her basic theological education and how she extended her knowledge through divine revelations and intellectual exchange with her monastic network. Part two expounds on several of Hildegard’s homilies, elucidating the theological brilliance that emanates from the creative exegesis she shapes to develop profound, interweaving themes. Hildegard eschewed the linear, repetitive explanations of her predecessors and created an organically coherent body of thought, rich with interconnected spiritual symbols. Part three deals with the wide-ranging reception of Hildegard’s works and her inspiring legacy, extending from theology to medicine. Her prophetic voice resounds in the morally urgent areas of creation theology and the corruption of church and political leadership. Hildegard decries human disregard for the earth and its lust for power. Instead, she advocates the unifying capacity of nature, “viridity,” that fosters the interconnectedness of all creation.

Author : Anonymous monk of Whitby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521313848

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The Earliest Life of Gregory the Great by Anonymous monk of Whitby Pdf

In his role of apostle of the English and promoter of Augustine's mission, Gregory the Great became the subject of what is one of the earliest pieces of literature surviving from the Anglo-Saxon period: a Life written by an unknown author at Whitby around 680-704. Although crude in its latinity and idiosyncratic in its presentation, this work is a fascinating source of early traditions about the conversion of the English - including the famous story of Gregory's encounter with the Anglian slave boys - and an important witness to the veneration felt for the saint himself. It casts valuable light on English history in the seventh century, particularly on the career of Edwin of Northumbria, and is the source of two of the most famous legends of the Middle Ages, the Mass of St Gregory and the story of Trajan's rescue from hell. The Life of Gregory seems to be the earliest of the Saints' lives of this period and it is in many ways the most remarkable.

Author : Ann W. Astell
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268208141

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The Saint's Life and the Senses of Scripture by Ann W. Astell Pdf

Through close examination of ancient, medieval, and modern Lives of the saints, Ann W. Astell demonstrates how the historical transformation of hagiography as a genre correlates with similar changes in biblical studies. Christian hagiography flourished from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries, illuminating the gospel through the overlapping forms of exempla and vita. Originally, the Lives of the saints were understood as hermeneutical extensions of the Bible—God authors the saint, just as God authors the divinely inspired scriptures. During the medieval period, a sense of dual authorship between God and the cooperating saint developed, paralleling the Scholastic impulse to assign greater agency to the human writers of scripture. Then, in the sixteenth century, powerful new anxieties about historical truth pushed hagiography aside for biography, its successor. Drawing on her expertise in the history of Christianity and biblical exegesis, Astell convincingly shows how this radical shift in hagiography’s status—the loss of the literal, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical senses of the Lives—serves as a bellwether for modern biblical reception.

Author : C. E. Hill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199640294

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Who Chose the Gospels? by C. E. Hill Pdf

How did the Church get Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John instead of Thomas, Mary, Peter, and Judas? C. E. Hill presents evidence for how and why, despite the numerous Gospels that appeared in the earliest Christian centuries, four (and only four) Gospels came to be embraced by the Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox churches alike.

Author : James Barmby
Publisher : London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, published under the direction of the Tract Committee
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : UOM:39015013439719

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Gregory the Great by James Barmby Pdf