Medieval Introduction to Theology. The Prohemium to the Lectures on the Sentences of Giles of Rome, OESA (d. 1316)

This book presents the first edition and translation of Giles of Rome’s Prohemium to his lectures on the Sentences of Peter Lombard (Paris, 1276-1277), together with an extensive introduction. Giles was a student of Thomas Aquinas, yet forged his own path, thereby establishing a distinct late medieval theological tradition, the Augustinian tradition, which should be recognized as such together with the Dominican and Franciscan traditions. Giles defined Theology as “affective knowledge,” a distinct late medieval theological tradition, demarcated from the Dominican view of Theology as speculative, or theoretical knowledge, and the Franciscan view of Theology as practical knowledge.