Ambroży o starości w swoich listach

• Authors: Marcin Wysocki

Title variants

EN

Ambrose in his letters on senility

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The correspondence of St Ambrose, of which 91 letters survive, provides a picture of his pastoral and social activities. His letters were directed to people of differing ages and classes; in some of them one can find his views on ageing, its features and dangers and how the old should be cared for. The period of old age is, according to the Bishop of Milan, the period of becoming a perfect men. Ambrose considered that with advancing age man grows towards perfection and maturity in the human sense, but more importantly in the moral and religious sense. He taught that everyone must try to improve themselves gradually throughout life by conversion and repentance, achieving maturity and perfection by the time of death.

Keywords

PL

Ambroży; starość

EN

Ambrose; senility

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: Vox Patrum
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 56
• Pages: 299-311

Dates

published

2011-12-15

Contributors

author

Marcin Wysocki

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/vp.4224