{"product_id":"on-the-duties-of-the-clergy","title":"On the Duties of the Clergy: The Complete Text","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat the philosophers sought and did not find, a life ordered wholly to the good, is taught in the school of Christ.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:1.6em 0 .4em;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNot yet released.\u003c\/strong\u003e This edition is set and in production. Write to the press and we will let you know the day it goes on sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:0 0 1.9em;\"\u003eOn release, orders are placed and shipped through IngramSpark. This page is a catalogue listing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaint Ambrose of Milan (c. 340–397), bishop, statesman, and Doctor of the Church, was the teacher who baptized Augustine and the shepherd who once kept an emperor from the door of the church until he had done penance. \u003cem\u003eOn the Duties of the Clergy\u003c\/em\u003e is his manual for the ministers in his charge, and the first full treatise on Christian ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe took for his model the \u003cem\u003eDe Officiis\u003c\/em\u003e of Cicero, the great pagan handbook of duty, and answered it point for point out of Scripture and the lives of the saints, showing that what the philosophers sought and did not find, a life ordered wholly to the good, is taught in the school of Christ. In three books he treats of what is virtuous, of what is useful, and of the two together, forming his clergy in honour, prudence, justice, and temperance, and above all in the mercy and the unbought love that mark a servant of the Church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Sanctified Souls Press edition gives the work complete, in its three books, in the public-domain English of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. Newly set on cream paper, for reading and keeping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaint Ambrose of Milan (c. 340–397), Bishop of Milan, Father and Doctor of the Church\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslated by H. de Romestin, E. de Romestin, and H. T. F. Duckworth, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 1896\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComplete and unabridged: all three books, the first in fifty chapters, the second in thirty, the third in twenty-two\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSanctified Souls, Heritage Editions · Saint Ambrose\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 198 pages, cream paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:1.6em 0 0;\"\u003eCover: a line engraving of \u003cem\u003eSaint Ambrose\u003c\/em\u003e by Gerard Edelinck (French, 1640–1707); Wellcome Collection. Public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sanctified Souls","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53048745623833,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/4616\/0921\/files\/ambrose-duties-front.jpg?v=1787542947","url":"https:\/\/sanctifiedsouls.com\/products\/on-the-duties-of-the-clergy","provider":"Sanctified Souls","version":"1.0","type":"link"}