Dr. Christopher M. Bellitto is professor of history at Kean University in New Jersey, where he teaches courses in ancient and medieval history. With a focus on church history and reform, he has twice won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been a visiting scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary and a Fulbright specialist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Dr. Bellitto serves as series editor in chief of Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition and academic editor at large for Paulist Press. He also frequently offers public lectures and comments in the media on church history and contemporary Catholicism.
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Description
Acknowledgments
Prologue The Problem and the Potential
Chapter One: Ancient Notions of Humility
Chapter Two: Humility in a Biblical Key
Chapter Three: A Medieval Golden Age
Chapter Four: The Paradox of Learned Ignorance
Chapter Five: Modernity Forgets—and Starts to Remember
Epilogue Recovering a Lost Virtue
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
"We live in an age of bombast, vitriol, and ego. In the midst of what seems like an endless sea of ‘self’-promotion—and even ‘self’-realization that seems cut off from a grander, more Divine Self—humility is indeed a most urgent virtue. Bellitto’s book is a balm for the heart."—Omid Safi, professor of Islamic studies, Duke University