Tatige Nachstenliebe in Werk und Wirken Gregors des Grossen

by Susanne Barth

Book cover: Tatige Nachstenliebe in Werk und Wirken Gregors des Grossen

Extent: 462 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Medieval Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity

Series volume number: 122

Language: German

Paperback (Published)

(April 2021)

ISBN: 9783161563034

9.09 x 6.06 inches

Price: $130.00

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When Gregory the Great became pope at a time of political and religious crisis, he assumed responsibility for what had formerly been imperial duties. As Susanne Barth shows in this thorough historical analysis of his complete works, both his writings and deeds pay testimony to this fact. With the grace of charity evolving into a central aspect of Gregory’s theology, he describes church as a community of reciprocal care. In the end, the benefit of the proximate – the utilitas proximi – becomes the ultimate touchstone for ethical action, which likewise determined Gregory’s own work.

  • By (author) Susanne Barth