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Writing shortly after Aelred of Rievaulx died on 12 January 1167,
Walter Daniel, his secretary and fellow monk, has created the
picture of Aelred which endures to this day. We come to know a man
of 'charity and astonishing sanctity', an ailing abbot whose monks
sat chatting around his bed. Only in passing do we glimpse the
ambitious young steward at the court of King David of Scotland, the
ecclesiastical diplomat and political counselor who moved easily in
royal and episcopal circles, or the canny property manager who
guided his monasteries to prosperity. From Walter's pen we have a
gentle, loving, ascetic abbot who offered spiritual guidance to his
monks through conversation and to a wider audience through the
treatises he composed, and who died a holy death. The reaction the
Life provoked suggest that some contemporaries outside Rievaulx
entertained a different picture of the abbot of Rievaulx. Whether
motivated by simple dislike, by envy, or by dissatisfaction at a
hastily informal 'canonization', the critics stung the indignant
Walter to response. Perhaps they, like Walter, viewed as
irreconcilable and struggled to keep apart two worlds which Aelred
himself integrated and brought together.
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Sermons (Paperback)
Pope Leo I; Translated by Jane Patricia Freeland
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R1,390
Discovery Miles 13 900
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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As the vestiges of the Roman political machine began to collapse in
the fifth century A.D., the towering figure of Pope St. Leo the
Great came into relief amid the rubble. Sustained by an immutable
doctrine transcending institutions and cultures, the Church alone
emerged from the chaos. Eventually, the Roman heritage became
assimilated into Christianity and ceased to have a life of its own.
It would be practically impossible to understand this monumental
transition from the Roman world to Christendom without taking into
account the pivotal role played by Leo the Great. In this regard,
his sermons provide invaluable data for the social historian. It
was Leo-and not the emperor-who went out to confront Attila the
Hun. It was Leo who once averted and on another occasion mitigated
the ravages of barbarian incursions. As significant as his
contribution was to history, Leo had an even greater impact on
theology. When partisans of the monophysite heresy had through
various machinations predetermined the outcome of a council held at
Chalcedon in 450, Leo immediately denounced it as a latrocinium
(robbery) rather than a concilium (council). A year later- with
cries of ""Peter has spoken through Leo!""-the ecumenical Council
of Chalcedon, a pillar of Catholic Christianity, adopted in its
resounding condemnation of monophysitism the very language
formulated by Leo. Pope Leo also developed the most explicit and
detailed affirmations known up to that time of the prerogatives
enjoyed by successors of St. Peter. Many theological principles
find their clearest, and certainly their most eloquent, expression
in his sermons. Leo spoke with all the refinement of a Roman
orator, less the pagan trappings, and thus epitomized a Christian
appropriation of the classical heritage. In the midst of it all,
however, Pope St. Leo thought of himself simply as the humble
servant of those entrusted to his care. This volume presents the
first English translation of the complete Sermons.
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