Research Catalog

Title

The Fathers and Doctors of the church.

Author

Simmons, Ernest Joseph, 1903-1972.

Publication

Milwaukee, Bruce, 1959.

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Holdings

Details

Description

188 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

Doctors of the church

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Indexed In (note)

• Bagnall

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

In search of doctors -- Defender of the Incarnation : St. Athanasius -- Sun of the Syrians : St. Ephraem the Syrian -- The Rhone of Latin eloquence : St. Hilary of Poitiers -- The embarrassing doctor : St. Cyril of Jerusalem -- The holy ditherer : St. Gregory Nazianzen -- Lion in a lambskin : St. Basil the Great -- The people's bishop : St. Ambrose of Milan -- The irascible saint : St. Jerome -- The golden voice : St. John Chrysostom -- The iron man of Egypt : Cyril of Alexandria -- The voice of Peter : St. Leo the Great -- The unknown doctor : St. Peter Chrysologus -- The last of the Romans : St. Gregory the Great -- Schoolmaster of the Middle Ages : St. Isidore of Seville -- The English doctor : St. Bede the Venerable -- The Caliph's Christian : St. John of Damascus -- Eleventh-century reformer : St. Peter Damian -- The king's opponent : St. Anselm of Canterbury -- The energetic abbot : St. Bernard of Clairvaux -- The Portuguese evangelist : St. Anthony of Padua -- The thirteenth century -- The seraphic doctor : St. Bonaventure -- The universal teacher : St. Albert the Great -- The angel of the schools : St. Thomas Aquinas -- The German shepherd : St. Peter Canisius -- Bootless into paradise : St. John of the Cross -- The chaplain general : St. Lawrence of Brindisi -- The gentle bogeyman : St. Robert Bellarmine -- Monseigneur de Genève : St. Francis de Sales -- Man with seven lives : St. Alphonsus Liguori -- Carrying on the search -- Appendix A: The doctors of the church -- Appendix B: Explicit declaration as doctor of the church.

LCCN

^^^59014256^

OCLC

• 1575745
• SCSB-10351725

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library