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The Letters of Peter Damian, 151-180 (Paperback)
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The Letters of Peter Damian, 151-180 (Paperback)
Series: The Fathers of the Church: Mediaeval Continuation
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This volume concludes the series of Peter Damian's Letters in
English translation. Among Letters 151-180 readers will find some
of Damian's most passionate exhortations on behalf of eremitic
ideals. These include Letter 152, in which Damian defends as
consistent with the spirit and the letter of Benedict's Rule his
practice of receiving into the eremitic life monks who had
abandoned their cenobitic communities. In Letter 153 Damian
encourages monks at Pomposa to pass beyond the minimum standards
established in the Rule of St. Benedict for the higher and more
demanding eremitic vocation. In Letter 165, addressed to a hermit,
Albizo, and a monk, Peter, Damian reveals as well the importance of
monastic life to the world: because the integrity of the monastic
profession has weakened, the world has fallen even deeper into an
abyss of sin and corruption and is rushing headlong to destruction.
Let monks and hermits take refuge within the walls of the
monastery, he urges, while outside the advent of Antichrist seems
imminent. Only from within their walls can they project proper
examples of piety and sanctity that may transform the world as a
whole. Damian was equally concerned to address the moral condition
of the larger Church. Letter 162 represents the last of Damian's
four tracts condemning clerical marriage (Nicolaitism). Damian's
condemnation of Nicolaitism also informed his rejection of Cadalus,
the antipope Honorius II (see Letters 154 and 156), who was said to
support clerical marriage, and therefore cast him into the center
of a storm of ecclesiastical (and imperial) politics from which
Damian never completely extricated himself.
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