SMC307Y1 Lecture Notes - Monastery, Old Testament, Medieval Art
18 Dec 2012
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Lived in a time of considerable turmoil in italy. As a young man greg was attracted to monastic life, he was talented and the bishop of rome asked him to be a deacon. He was acting diplomat, on a mission to. Moralia in job the moral teaching in job, however moral meaning life, and expectations god has for us. He was not caught up in augustines concerns. By his time the world had changed form that of. They were confronting a pagan world that was dying but was still there, trying to formulate a. Christian understanding of the world over the pagan one. Greg problems were to how to get christians to become christians. To greg, this was the challenge, nothing else a pastoral challenge. In this book he tries to meet this challenge. He represents a renewal movement in the tradition ironically after his death monasticism loses its popularity it had.
