Great teachers
By: Pope Benedict XVI
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor Pub. Division
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Huntington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9781592765362
Subjects: Christian saints; Catholics; Biography; Church history
Description: "Discover the greatest teachers of the Faith as Pope Benedict XVI highlights their essential role during a time of scandal and strife in the Church.  Focusing specifically on the thirteenth-century founding of the Franciscans by St. Francis of Assisi and the Dominicans by St. Dominic Guzmán, the pope said personal holiness led to the two saints to preach--and to help actualize--a return to Gospel poverty, a deeper unity with the Church, and a new movement of evangelization, including within the European universities that were blossoming at the time"--P. [4] of jacket.
Notes: "The material in this book is derived from catecheses given by Pope Benedict XVI during his weekly general audiences from October 28, 2009 to July 7, 2010.  The texts have been edited slightly to facilitate presentation in book form.  The date each address was originally presented is annotated in the footnotes"--P. 7.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Monastic theology and scholastic theology; title: Two theological models in comparison: Bernard and Abelard; title: The Cluniac reform; title: The cathedral from the Romanesque to the Gothic architecture: the theological background; title: Hugh and Richard of Saint-Victor; title: William of Saint-Thierry; title: Rupert of Deutz; title: John of Salisbury; title: Peter Lombard; title: The Mendicant Orders; title: St. Francis of Assisi; title: St. Dominic Guzmán; title: St. Anthony of Padua; title: St. Bonaventure; title: St. Albert the Great; title: St. Thomas Aquinas; title: John Duns Scotus.