Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris: Preaching, Prologues, and Biblical Commentary
Cambridge University Press, 2/4/2021
EAN 9781108841153, ISBN10: 1108841155
Hardcover, 460 pages, 25.9 x 19.6 x 2.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
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.
I. Preliminaries
1. Preaching and Principia at the University of Paris
2. The basic elements of the thirteenth century “modern sermonâ€Â
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
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Summary and concluding remarks.