Randall B. Smith

Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris (eBook, PDF)

Preaching, Prologues, and Biblical Commentary

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108897686
• Artikelnr.: 66181667

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.