Letters
| Author/creator | Damian, Peter Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Washington : Catholic University of America Press |
| Description | 336 p. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Blum, Owen 1912- Translator |
| Other author/creator | Resnick, Irven Translator |
| Other author/creator | Peter Damian 1007?-1072. Author |
| Other author/creator | Blum, Owen J. 1912- Author |
| Other author/creator | Resnick, Irven Michael Author |
| Series | Fathers of the Church Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation "This volume concludes the series of Peter Damian's Letters in English translation. Among Letters 151-180 readers will find some of Damian's most passionate exhortations on behalf of eremitic ideals. These include Letter 152, in which Damian defends as consistent with the spirit and the letter of Benedict's Rule his practice of receiving into the eremitic life monks who had abandoned their cenobitic communities. In Letter 153 Damian encourages monks at Pomposa to pass beyond the minimum standards established in the Rule of St. Benedict for the higher and more demanding eremitic vocation. In Letter 165, addressed to a hermit, Albizo, and a monk, Peter, Damian reveals as well the importance of monastic life to the world: because the integrity of the monastic profession has weakened, the world has fallen even deeper into an abyss of sin and corruption and is rushing headlong to destruction. Let monks and hermits take refuge within the walls of the monastery, he urges, while outside the advent of Antichrist seems imminent. Only from within their walls can they project proper examples of piety and sanctity that may transform the world as a whole." "Damian was equally concerned to address the moral condition of the larger Church. Letter 162 represents the last of Damian's four tracts condemning clerical marriage (Nicolaitism). Damian's condemnation of Nicolaitism also informed his rejection of Cadalus, the antipope Honorius II (see Letters 154 and 156), who was said to support clerical marriage, thereby casting Damian into the center of a storm of ecclesiastical (and imperial) politics from which he never completely extricated himself."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 88025802 |
| ISBN | 9780813214252 |
| ISBN | 0813214254 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Stock number | 00005339 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |