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Title: Gregory the Great: Moral Reflections on the Book of Job, Volume 1 (Introduction and Books 1-5) By: Gregory the Great Translated By: Brian Kerns OCSO Format: Hardcover Number of Pages: 304 Vendor: Cistercian Publications Inc Publication Date: 2014 | Dimensions: 8.50 X 5.50 (inches) Weight: 1 pound 5 ounces ISBN: 0879071494 ISBN-13: 9780879071493 Series: Cistercian Studies Stock No: WW072490 |
Gregory the Great was pope from 590 to 604, a time of great turmoil in Italy and in the western Roman Empire generally because of the barbarian invasions. Gregorys experience as prefect of the city of Rome and as apocrisarius of Pope Pelagius fitted him admirably for the new challenges of the papacy. The Moral Reflections on the Book of Job were first given to the monks who accompanied Gregory to the embassy in Constantinople. This first volume of the work contains books 15, accompanied by an introduction by Mark DelCogliano.
Br. Brian Kerns has been a Trappist for sixty years, seventeen years at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, and the rest at the Abbey of the Genesee in upper New York state, interrupted by a year at Oxford, North Carolina, and five years at Genesees foundation of Novo Mundo in Parana, Brazil. He hails originally from Pottsville, in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania. For many years he worked in the library at Genesee and Novo Mundo, and he has interested himself in various translation projects, among which is the life of Dom Gabriel Sortais, abbot general of the Trappists in the early 1960s. That volume has also been published by Cistercian Publications, in the Monastic Wisdom series. The first four volumes of his translation of Gregory the Greats Moral Reflections on the Book of Job were published by Cistercian Publications between 2014 and 2017.
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