Today’s free book is a biography of Pope Leo I, also called Leo the Great by Charles Gore. He is considered one of the most significant Popes by historians and theologians alike.
He was a Roman aristocrat, and was the first pope to have been called “the Great”. He is perhaps best known for having met Attila the Hun in 452 and persuaded him to turn back from his invasion of Italy. He is also a Doctor of the Church, most remembered theologically for issuing the Tome of Leo, a document which was a major foundation to the debates of the Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical council. That meeting dealt primarily with Christology and elucidated the orthodox definition of Christ’s being as the hypostatic union of two natures, divine and human, united in one person, “with neither confusion nor division”. It was followed by a major schism associated with Monophysitism, Miaphysitism and Dyophysitism.
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This public domain title was digitised from the copy held in Spurgeon’s College library.
Main image: Francisco de Herrera el Mozo (spanish, 1622-1685): Saint Leo Magnus (pope Leo I), Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain. Source: Wikipedia
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