ABSTRACT
The then-exiled bishop of Verona thus concisely phrased a question explored in a formative manner by Gregory the Great in his Rule of Pastoral Care, as well as by many other thinkers in the intervening three-and-a-half centuries.2 In a slightly different key, the editors of this volume have highlighted “the twin ideals of noble resourcefulness and pastoral solicitude [which] combined in the figure of the bishop.”3
