Church Fathers and teachers
Subtitle: from Saint Leo the Great to Peter Lombard
By: Pope Benedict XVI
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781586173173
Subjects: Meditations; Fathers of the church; Church history
Description: By exploring both the lives and the ideas of the great popes, abbots, scholars and missionaries who lived during the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christendom, Pope Benedict XVI highlights the key elements of Catholic dogma and practice that remain the foundation stones not only of the Roman Catholic Church but of Christian society itself. This book is a wonderful way to get to know these later Church Fathers and Teachers and the tremendous, spiritually rich patrimony they have bequeathed to us.

"Without this vital sap, man is exposed to the danger of succumbing to the ancient temptation of seeking to redeem himself by himself."-Pope Benedict XVI --Book Jacket.
Notes: "General audiences: 5 March 2008 ; 25 June 2008, 11 February 2009 ; 17 June 2009, 2 September 2009 ; 30 December 2009."

English translation by L'Osservatore Romano.
Table of contents: title: Saint Leo the Great; title: Boethius and Cassidorius; title: Saint Benedict of Doria; title: Pseudo-Dyonisius the Aeropagite; title: Saint Romanus the Melodist; title: Saint Gregory the Great (1-2); title: Saint Columban; title: Saint Isidore of Seville; title: Saint Maximus theConfessorr; title: John Climacus; title: Saint Bede, the Venerable; title: Saint  Boniface, the apostle to the Germans; title: Ambrose Autpert; title: Germanus of Constantinople; title: John Damascene; title: Saint Theodore the Studite; title: Rabanus Maurus; title: John Scotius Erigena; title: Saints Cyril and Methodius; title: Saint Odo of Cluny; title: Saint Peter Damian; title: Symeon the new theologian; title: Saint Anselm; title: Peter the Venerable; title: Saint  Bernard of Clairvaux; title: Monastictheology andd 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.