The Thought of Gregory the Great

Gregory the Great was, after Augustine of Hippo, perhaps the most influential of the Fathers in the Latin West during the Middle Ages. He put Augustine's thought into a form which proved accessible and acceptable to mediaeval readers, and he added much of his own, notably in his preaching, in which he interpreted the Bible with equal emphasis on the practical living of a good Christian life and the aspiration of the soul towards God and the life to come. This study looks at Gregory's thought as a whole and tries to show what was most important to him and the way he arrived at a balance between the active and the contemplative, the 'outward' and the 'inward' in his own mind. There is a tailpiece on the influence of his ideas in later centuries.

Art · Balance (ability) · Contemplation · Literature · Soul · Theology · Augustinian Studies and Theology · Byzantine Studies and History · Classics · History · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Psychology

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• Government and administration

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• The army, c. 420–602

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• Specialized production and exchange

  Open Access•Bryan Ward-Perkins, Bryan Ward‐Perkins•The Cambridge Ancient History•2001

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• Land, labour and settlement

  Open Access•Bryan Ward-Perkins, Bryan Ward‐Perkins•The Cambridge Ancient History•2001

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• Law in the western kingdoms between the fifth and the seventh century

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• Armies and society in the later Roman world

  Open Access•Michael Whitby•The Cambridge Ancient History•2001

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• Administration and politics in the cities of the fifth to the mid seventh century

  Open Access•J H W G Liebeschuetz•The Cambridge Ancient History•2001

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• Emperor and court

  Open Access•Michael Mccormick•The Cambridge Ancient History•2001

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• Monasticism

  Open Access•Philip Rousseau•The Cambridge Ancient History•2001

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• The family in the late Roman world

  Open Access•Andrea Giardina•The Cambridge Ancient History•2001

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• Could the Gregorian Notion of C onsideratio as a Framework for Theological Reflection Aid Reflective Practice in Pastoral Care

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• A Defense of the Carolingian “Defense of Medicine”

  Open Access•JOEL L GAMBLE•Traditio•2020

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• Gregory the Great

  Open Access•Daniel Anlezark•Studies in Church History•2012

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• 'For it is improper to be addicted to the tedium of affliction'

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• Obraz heretyków w „Moralia in Iob” Grzegorza Wielkiego

  Open Access•Mariusz Szram•Vox Patrum•2019

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• Gregory the Great’s Metaphor of the Physician of the Heart as a Model for Pastoral Identity

  Open Access•Clare McGrath-Merkle, Roger Olsson•Journal of Religion and Health•2011

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• The Cambridge Ancient History

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