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Alcuin - Theology and Thought (Paperback)
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'Alcuin: Theology and Thought' is a thorough and wide-ranging
consideration of Alcuin's spiritual and intellectual life as a
teacher in York, and later on the Continent as a protagonist in the
Adoptionist crisis, as a theologian of mission, and as a fearless
and prophetic moral authority. Douglas Dales demonstrates that
Alcuin accomplished the pastoral and evangelistic approach set out
by his forebears, the Venerable Bede and Gregory the Great, and was
instrumental in the reform of the liturgy and proliferation of the
Bible. The author examines Alcuin's surviving works to reveal a
depth of human love and spiritual experience that gives resonance
to his liturgical writing and prayers, and his sensitivity to the
path of penitence, to loyalty to others, to moral rectitude and the
desire for holiness. There is no other study in the English
language that deals with Alcuin's theology in depth. Here the
author grapples with Alcuin's doctrinal idiom and theological
impetus with sympathy, lucidity, and insight. Douglas Dales was
Chaplain of Marlborough College, Wiltshire, from 1984 to 2012 and
is now a parish priest in the diocese of Oxford. He is the author
of several studies in Anglo-Saxon church history and other areas of
theology, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the
author of 'Alcuin: his Life and Legacy'; 'Dunstan: Saint and
Statesman'; 'Living Through Dying: The Spiritual Experience of
Saint Paul'; and 'Light to the Isles: Mission and Theology in
Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Britain'. " 'Alcuin: Theology and Thought'
complements the forerunner to the volume, Alcuin: His Life and
Legacy, also displaying the author's academic rigour and dexterity.
This book will be of immense value to anyone teaching, or learning
about, early medieval history as well as theology in universities.
Alcuin deserves to be recognised - far more than has often been the
case - as a key figure in the evolution of the mediaeval mind; and
no one reading this book could fail to see him in this light. This
is a fine and welcome tribute to one of the greatest gifts the
British Church gave to the wider Catholic fellowship in the early
Middle Ages." From the Foreword by Rowan Williams.
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