Scott DeGregorio wrote:
>
> Further toward our discussion of a couple weeks backs about monks
> undertaking pastoral duties, I'm wondering if anyone knows of any
> scholarship which traces this development back to its beginnings. Clearly
> the earliest monks weren't obliged to preach. But by the Bede's time if
> not earlier this appears to have changed; Bede himself certainly felt that
> monks were charged with pastoral care, as did Gregory the Great. What
> I'm unsure about is the figures before Gregory who also took this
> position.
>
I seem to have missed this whole discussion the first time around, so
I'm not sure if this has been cited already or not. A detailed German
study of the question is:
Hofmeister, Philipp. "Moenchtum und Seelsorge bis zum 13. Jahrhundert."
*Studien und Mitteilungen zur Geschichte des Benediktiner-Ordens und
seiner Zweige* 65 (1953/54): 209-73.
Don't know if it goes back before Gregory, though.
Eric Reiter
Concordia University, Montreal
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