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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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
From Clement of Rome to today, the project of understanding the faith has engaged and impelled some of the Wests greatest minds. Here Pope Benedict XVI accessibly and sympathetically reflects on the lives and works of Christianitys chief theologians, teachers, ascetics and mystics up to the end of the Middle Ages
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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