{"product_id":"the-book-of-pastoral-rule","title":"The Book of Pastoral Rule: The Complete Text","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe one word of doctrine must be tempered to the endless variety of hearers.\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 Gregory the Great (c. 540–604), monk, then Pope, and Doctor of the Church, wrote \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Pastoral Rule\u003c\/em\u003e at the very outset of his pontificate, in answer to a friend who had reproached him for trying to flee the burden of a bishop. It became the most influential treatise ever written on the office of a shepherd of souls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGregory divides the work into four parts: how one should come to the pastoral office; how he should live who has come to it; how he should teach those in his charge; and how he should daily return to himself, lest his very preaching lift him up. The third and longest part sets out, in forty chapters, how the one word of doctrine must be tempered to the endless variety of hearers, the poor and the rich, the joyful and the sad, the meek and the passionate, and the rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarried into every quarter of the Latin Church, translated by King Alfred into English, and laid upon bishops at their consecration for a thousand years, it is given here complete 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 Gregory the Great (c. 540–604), Pope, Father and Doctor of the Church\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslated by James Barmby, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComplete and unabridged: the four parts entire, with Gregory's dedicatory letter to Bishop John\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSanctified Souls, Heritage Editions · Saint Gregory the Great, Book One\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 174 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: jamb figures of bishop-saints on the south porch of Chartres Cathedral, a salted-paper print by Pierre-Émile-Joseph Pécarrère, c. 1850–52; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sanctified Souls","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53048777998617,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/4616\/0921\/files\/gregory-pastoral-rule-front.jpg?v=1787543047","url":"https:\/\/sanctifiedsouls.com\/products\/the-book-of-pastoral-rule","provider":"Sanctified Souls","version":"1.0","type":"link"}