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Morals on the Book of Job... Volume 1
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650 pages, Paperback
First published August 13, 2015
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Pope Gregory I
261 books63 followersborn perhaps 540
From 590, Saint Gregory I the Great, known pope, increased authority, enforced rules of life for the clergy, and sponsored many notably important missionary expeditions of Saint Augustine of Canterbury in 596 to Britain.
Commonly vigilant Gregory guarded the doctrine of the Church. He founded numerous monasteries, including a school for the training of church musicians. He collected the melodies and plainsong, so associated and now Gregorian chants. In his time, he served as a monk, an abbot, and a leader of Italy. He also momentously influenced the Catholic Church through doctrine, organization, and discipline. People thought of his foremost skill in grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic in all Rome, Gregory of Tours tells us. Gregory sent as a patron of England. Gregory wrote Dialogues , one accomplishment, a book on the Lives of the Saints. Boniface VIII proclaimed him as a doctor of the church in 1295.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gr...
From 590, Saint Gregory I the Great, known pope, increased authority, enforced rules of life for the clergy, and sponsored many notably important missionary expeditions of Saint Augustine of Canterbury in 596 to Britain.
Commonly vigilant Gregory guarded the doctrine of the Church. He founded numerous monasteries, including a school for the training of church musicians. He collected the melodies and plainsong, so associated and now Gregorian chants. In his time, he served as a monk, an abbot, and a leader of Italy. He also momentously influenced the Catholic Church through doctrine, organization, and discipline. People thought of his foremost skill in grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic in all Rome, Gregory of Tours tells us. Gregory sent as a patron of England. Gregory wrote Dialogues , one accomplishment, a book on the Lives of the Saints. Boniface VIII proclaimed him as a doctor of the church in 1295.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gr...
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March 10, 2022
This is a patristic sermon commentary on the book of Job. Or rather, this is the first of three volumes of a sermon commentary on the book of Job, covering everything to Job 12:5. Being a sermon commentary, it is always beautiful, often inspiring, sometimes a bit of a stretch, and very, very long.
St. Gregory (the Great) goes through the text of Job meticulously, line by line, unpacking everything there, primarily according to a moral reading. But this does not mean browbeating and moralizing in the negative sense, but rather an enlightening view of the depths of Christian conversion of heart necessary.
The reason I took a star off is because this is a typical sentence: “But what have we set forth by the designation of ‘the sea’ saving the hearts of carnal men tossed about with swelling thoughts? And what by the name of ‘a whale’ except our old enemy who by taking possession of the hearts of the children of this world he makes his way into them, does in a certain sort swim about in their slippery thoughts.”
This sort of sentence goes on almost 600 pages. As such, if you want a quick explanation of the book of Job, this is not the book for you.
If, however, you have time to devote to settle into the definitive work on reading Job as it applies to individual souls today, I heartily recommend picking this book up and reading it slowly and thoughtfully.
I will review the other two volumes at some point, but now I need a bit of a break from Gregory, as he himself encourages you to take at the end of this volume “that the reader may return more ardent to the task of reading, in proportion as he has breathing given him by the interruption of what is read.”
St. Gregory (the Great) goes through the text of Job meticulously, line by line, unpacking everything there, primarily according to a moral reading. But this does not mean browbeating and moralizing in the negative sense, but rather an enlightening view of the depths of Christian conversion of heart necessary.
The reason I took a star off is because this is a typical sentence: “But what have we set forth by the designation of ‘the sea’ saving the hearts of carnal men tossed about with swelling thoughts? And what by the name of ‘a whale’ except our old enemy who by taking possession of the hearts of the children of this world he makes his way into them, does in a certain sort swim about in their slippery thoughts.”
This sort of sentence goes on almost 600 pages. As such, if you want a quick explanation of the book of Job, this is not the book for you.
If, however, you have time to devote to settle into the definitive work on reading Job as it applies to individual souls today, I heartily recommend picking this book up and reading it slowly and thoughtfully.
I will review the other two volumes at some point, but now I need a bit of a break from Gregory, as he himself encourages you to take at the end of this volume “that the reader may return more ardent to the task of reading, in proportion as he has breathing given him by the interruption of what is read.”
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