Gregory the Great: A Symposium (Notre Dame Studies in Theology, Vol 2)

Essays delivered at a symposium on Pope Gregory the Great, University of Notre Dame 1993.

In this collection of essays Gregory the Great emerges as a figure both interpreting and interpreted: interpreting the past; receiving, synthesizing, and developing the teachings of earlier writers; and, by this very process, presenting a persuasive theological and pastoral agenda which itself inspires ongoing projects of interpretation and development in later periods up to and including our own.

A group of renowned North American scholars gathered at the University of Notre Dame in 1993 for a symposium on Pope Gregory the Great (1502-1585). The essays collected in this volume are arranged in the order in which they were delivered, and there are several additional related contributions included as well. In these essays Gregory emerges as a figure both interpreting and interpreted: interpreting the past, receiving, synthesizing, and developing the teachings of earlier writers, and, by this very process, presenting a persuasive theological and pastoral agenda which itself inspires ongoing projects of interpretation and development in later periods up to and including our own.