Randall B. Smith (Houston University of St Thomas)

Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Employing an in-depth study of the prologues and preaching skills of Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure, this book will spur a fundamental reconsideration of the scholastic culture of the High Middle Ages and of the educational culture that informed their impressive body of work whose influence is still widespread today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 872g
• ISBN-13: 9781108789356
• ISBN-10: 1108789358
• Artikelnr.: 70726930

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.