Peter Damian: Letters 1–30

by Peter Damian

Publisher:

Catholic University of America

, 1989

Overview

This first volume of the Letters of Peter Damian contains the first 30 letters, and covers the period before 1049. Here we see Peter Damian as an untiring preacher and uncompromising reformer, both of the monastic world and of the church at large. He attacks clerical laxity and monastic decadence in letter after letter. The first letter in the collection is of particular interest, containing a theological consideration of the Christian position against the Jews. Other important letters in this first volume are Damian’s allegorical interpretation of the Divine Office, his letters on the Last Days and the Judgment, on canonical and legal points (such as the prohibited degrees of consanguinity in marriage), and on liturgical matters, particularly in monastic observance.

Product Details

• Title: Peter Damian: Letters 1–30
• Author: Peter Damian
• Series: The Fathers of the Church: Mediaeval Continuation
• Volume: 1
• Publisher: Catholic University of America
• Print Publication Date: 1989
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Peter Damian, Saint, 1007?-1072 › Correspondence; Christian saints › Italy--Correspondence
• ISBNs: 0813207029, 9780813207025
• Resource ID: LLS:LETTERS130
• Resource Type: text.monograph.letters
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:12:26Z

About Peter Damian

Saint Peter Damian, O.S.B. (Petrus Damiani, also Pietro Damiani or Pier Damiani; c. 1007 – February 21/22, 1072) was a reforming monk in the circle of Pope Gregory VII and a cardinal. In 1823, he was declared a Doctor of the Church. Dante placed him in one of the highest circles of Paradiso as a great predecessor of Saint Francis of Assisi.