Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris

Preaching, Prologues, and Biblical Commentary

AvRandall B. Smith

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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In this volume, Randall B. Smith provides a revisionist account of the scholastic culture that flourished in Paris during the High Middle Ages. Exploring the educational culture that informed the intellectual and mental habits of Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure, he offers an in-depth study of the prologues and preaching skills of these two masters. Smith reveal the intricate interrelationships between the three duties of the master: lectio (reading), disputatio (debate), and praedicatio (preaching). He also analyzes each of Aquinas and Bonaventure's prologues from their student days to their final works, revealing both their artistry and their instructional character. Written in an engaging style, this book serves as an invaluable resource that will enable scholars and students to read thirteenth-century sermons, prologues, and biblical commentaries with greater understanding and ease.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-02-04
Mått:183 x 260 x 29 mm
Vikt:1 000 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:460
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108841153

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion
Historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Randall B. Smith is the Scanlon Foundation Endowed Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. He is the author of How to Read a Sermon by Thomas Aquinas.

Recensioner i media

'This impressive and captivating study changes our view of medieval scholastic culture in Paris. The preparation of students for the art of preaching is much more important than usually thought of, as it influences the method of the two other magisterial tasks of reading (Scripture) and (per implication) debating.' Henk Schoot, Thomas Institute of Utrecht, Tilburg University

Innehållsförteckning

I. Preliminaries: 1. Preaching and Principia at the University of Paris; 2. The basic elements of the thirteenth century “modern sermon”; 3. Principia and Sermo Modernus; II. Thomas Aquinas: The Logician Who Learned to Preach: 4. Rigans montes: Thomas's inception principium; 5. Hi est liber: Thomas's Resumptio; 6. Thomas's student prologues; 7. After inception: early and late prologues; 8. I have seen the Lord: Thomas's prototreptic prologue to his commentary on the Gospel of John; 9. Aquinas, Sermo Modern-style preaching, and biblical commentary; III. Bonaventure: The Scholastic with the Soul of a Poet: 10. Bonaventure's inception Principium: Omnium artifex; 11. Bonaventure's Resumptio: an early attempt to think through the hierarchy of the sciences; 12. Searching the depths of the Lombard: the prologue to Bonaventure's Sentences commentary; 13. Exalting our understanding: the prologue to Bonaventure's Commentary on the Gospel of John; 14. The spirit of the Lord is upon me: the prologue to Bonaventure's Commentary on the Gospel of Luke; 15. Bonaventure, Sermo Modernus-style preaching, and biblical commentary; 16. A master's praise of scripture: the prologue to Bonaventure's Breviloquium; 17. The union of Paris and Assisi: the prologues to Bonaventure's later Collations; 18. The Reduction of the Arts to Theology redux: the prologue to the Collations on the Six Days of Creation; 19: Summary and concluding remarks.