Randall B. Smith

Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By focusing attention on the importance of preaching, this book should spur a fundamental reconsideration of 'scholastic' culture and education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1063g
• ISBN-13: 9781108841153
• ISBN-10: 1108841155
• Artikelnr.: 60011115

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.