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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796107903321

Autore

Demacopoulos George E.

Titolo

Gregory the Great : ascetic, pastor, and first man of Rome / / George E. Demacopoulos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Indiana : , : University of Notre Dame Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-268-15836-3

0-268-07786-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Disciplina

270.2092

B

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Gregory as Ascetic Theologian; Chapter One: A Theology of Asceticism; Chapter Two: Fall, Redemption, and the Ascetic's Filter; Chapter Three: Ecclesiology and the Rhetoric of Episcopal Equality; Chapter Four: Some Mystical Attributes of Gregory's Ascetic Theology; Part Two: Gregory as Pastoral Theologian; Chapter Five: The Importance of Spiritual Leadership; Chapter Six: The Recruitment of Leaders; Chapter Seven: The Tasks of the Spiritual Leader; Chapter Eight: The Impediments to Effective Leadership

Part Three: Gregory as "First Man" of RomeChapter Nine: The Rome of Gregory's Imagination; Chapter Ten: Ever the Praefect; Chapter Eleven: Gregory's Ascetic Program and Its Opponents; Chapter Twelve: Prefect of the Roman Church; Chapter Thirteen: Spreading Christianity beyond the Roman World; Chapter Fourteen: The Steward of Peter's Tomb; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index