Great Christian thinkers, from the early Church through the Middle Ages, Pope Benedict XVI
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Great Christian thinkers, from the early Church through the Middle Ages, Pope Benedict XVI
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eng
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contains biographical information
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non fiction
Main title
Great Christian thinkers
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696099273
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Pope Benedict XVI
Sub title
from the early Church through the Middle Ages
Summary
"In brief portraits, Pope Benedict XVI offers engaging, perceptive, and edifying sketches of some of the great thinkers and writers of Christianity. Pope Benedict discusses notable theologians from East and West but also many figures whose primary witness was as ascetics, poets, mystics, and missionaries. His pieces are not only illuminating historical sketches but also often surprisingly personal reflective meditations on the perennial changes of theology, spirituality, devotion, and corporate religious life in short, of thinking about and wrestling daily with the mysteries that envelop all our lives and struggles. Always with an eye to their deepest religious convictions and struggles, the Holy Father presents these great thinkers' importance for the church and for Christian life today. Great Christian Thinkers is an open-minded look at the tradition and is written for Catholics and Protestants alike" -- Publisher description
Table Of Contents
Heirs of the Apostles. St. Clement, Bishop of Rome ; St. Ignatius of Antioch ; St. Justin, philosopher and martyr ; St. Irenaeus of Lyons ; Clement of Alexandria ; Origen of Alexandria ; Tertullian ; St. Cyprian ; Eusebius of Caesarea -- Great teachers of the ancient Church. St. Athanasius of Alexandria ; St. Cyril of Jerusalem ; St. Basil ; St. Gregory of Nazianzus ; St. Gregory of Nyssa ; St. John Chrysostom ; St. Cyril of Alexandria ; St. Hilary of Poitiers ; St. Eusebius of Vercelli ; St Ambrose of Milan ; St. Maximus of Turin ; St. Jerome ; Aphraates, "the sage" ; St. Ephrem ; St. Paulinus of Nola ; St. Augustine of Hippo ; St. Leo the Great ; Boethius and Cassiodorus ; St. Benedict of Nursia ; Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite ; St. Romanus the melodist -- Monks and missionaries. St. Gregory the Great ; St. Columban ; St. Isidore of Seville ; St. Maximus the Confessor ; John Climacus ; Bede the Venerable ; St. Boniface, Apostle of the Germans ; Germanus of Constantinople ; John Damascene ; Saint Theodore the Studite ; Rabanus Maurus ; John Scotus Erigena ; Sts. Cyril and Methodius ; St. Odo of Cluny ; St. Peter Damian ; Symeon the new theologian -- Mystics, mendicants, and scholastics. St. Anselm ; Peter the Venerable ; St. Bernard of Clairvaux ; Bernard and Peter Abelard : two contrasting theological models ; Hugh and Richard of Saint-Victor ; William of Saint-Thierry ; St. Hildegard of Bingen ; John of Salisbury ; Peter Lombard ; St. Francis of Assisi ; St. Clare of Assisi ; St. Dominic de Guzmán ; St. Anthony of Padua ; St. Bonaventure ; St. Matilda of Hackeborn ; St. Gertrude the Great ; St. Elizabeth of Hungary ; St. Albert the Great ; St. Thomas Aquinas ; Marguerite d'Oingt ; John Duns Scotus ; St. Bridget of Sweden ; St. Catherine of Siena ; Julian of Norwich
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