{"title":"Reading Aristotle with Avicenna","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110685022-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110685022-010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":153743,"journal":{"name":"The Summa Halensis","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122755809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evil in Dionysius the Areopagite, Alexander of Hales and Thomas Aquinas","authors":"T. Aquinas","doi":"10.1515/9783110685022-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110685022-006","url":null,"abstract":": This paper examines Alexander of Hales ’ use and reconciliation of appa-rently dissonant quotations from Dionysius on two related questions, the knowability of God and the origin of evil. Noting that Alexander, as a junior colleague of Robert Grosseteste, was one of the first to make extensive use of Dionysius, it shows that he normally cites him in conjunction with Augustine and other Latin writers rather than according an independent authority to him. It is also argued that, although Alexander in some respects anticipates the conclusions of Aquinas, which are also reinforced by appeals to Dionysius, he is more inclined to admit the substantiality of evil. Theology is distinguished from philosophy, not only by its loftier subject-matter, but by its principled subordination of reason to tradition in the investigation of that sub-ject-matter. No professing Christian before the 18 th century called the inerrancy of the Scriptures into question, and any church that purported to be catholic held fast to the decrees of at least four oecumenical councils, while according presumptive authority also to certain individuals whom it esteemed as fathers, doctors or apologists for the true faith. For the scholastics Augustine was the cynosure of a Latin constel-lation whose lesser stars were Hilary, Ambrose, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville and (by about 1200) as recent a saint as Anselm; they too, if less often quoted, were not to be contradicted, and the same was true of the easterners John Chrysos-tom and John Damascene, who were now and then co-opted (through Latin versions) to give the stamp of universality to the same truths.We should not infer that all orig-inality was precluded: authority might determine what the church was to believe, but not what means of proving it might be employed by a given exponent, while there were numerous corollaries and implications of these normative tenets on which it was possible for good Christians to differ. To be original meant not so much to estab-lish new beliefs as to show,","PeriodicalId":153743,"journal":{"name":"The Summa Halensis","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132586935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Praepositinus of Cremona and William of Auxerre on Suppositio","authors":"Stephen F. Brown","doi":"10.1515/9783110685022-016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110685022-016","url":null,"abstract":": Early medieval discussions of supposition begin with reflections on an early passage of the first chapter of St Augustine ’ s De Trinitate. Here Augustine is criticizing Sabellius and his followers who claimed that the Father had begotten himself, i.e. God begets deity, which gave rise to a kind of modalism. These words of Augustine show up in Peter Lombard ’ s Sentences , Book I, Distinction 4, and gave rise to a larger debate about the words that can properly apply to God which engaged the minds not least of Abelard and Alberic of Reims, culminating in Gilbert of Poitiers. Praepositinus (1135 – 1210) and William of Auxerre (1140 – 1231) are the sources of a new trajectory in interpreting the supposition of the name ‘ God ’ , which directly influ-ences the Summa Halensis. This paper examines the nature of that influence and provides a translation of brief texts from Prepositinus and William that form its back-ground. Early medieval discussions of supposition begin with reflections on an early passage St Augustine Here Augustine is criticizing Sabellius and his followers who claimed that the Father had begotten Himself. These words of Augustine show up in Peter Lombard ’ s Sentences , Book 1, Distinction 4, which opens with the question: Utrum Deus genuit Deum? ( ‘ Whether it is to be granted that God generated Himself? Peter Lombard into any historical detail, we examine the Theologia or Scholarium Abelard understanding, would hold on to their own opinion, which","PeriodicalId":153743,"journal":{"name":"The Summa Halensis","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132705845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110685022-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110685022-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":153743,"journal":{"name":"The Summa Halensis","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121782348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creation, Light, and Redemption","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110685022-020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110685022-020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":153743,"journal":{"name":"The Summa Halensis","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123902005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Reception of John of Damascus in the Summa Halensis","authors":"I. Brady, Spicilegium Bonaventurianum","doi":"10.1515/9783110685022-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110685022-007","url":null,"abstract":": John of Damascus was perhaps the most important Christian encyclopedist of late antiquity. His influence crops up in two distinct ways in the Summa. He is an authority to be cited in support of positions adopted in the Summa , and sometimes the inspiration of those teachings; and he is an authority whose apparently deviant positions need to be given acceptable interpretations. Of the times that John is mentioned, his name crops up in association with some very distinctive issues: on the positive side, the will and passions (and action theory more generally), and the accounts of providence, faith, and images; and on the negative side, divine simplicity and associated epistemic and semantic questions, the Trinity, and the prelapsarian human condition. This chapter, accordingly, divides the material up in two ways: first, examining cases in which John clearly influenced the authors of the Summa , albeit not always unproblematically; and, secondly, examining those problematic cases in which John presents a position apparently in conflict with that adopted by the authors of the Summa. which follow the nature in creatures, and do not signify the substance but a property of the substance: for they signify the divine nature as a quality or habit. Uncreated grace is in us and makes us pleasing ( gratos ) to God. What I call “ pleasing to God ” either posits in us some disposition by which we are pleasing to God, other than the uncreated disposition, or not. If it does not posit some disposition in us other than uncreated grace, then the graced ( gratus ) and the ungraced among us do not differ, because uncreated grace is in the ungraced soul by essence, presence, and power, and likewise in the graced soul, in so far as God is said to be everywhere by presence, power, and essence.¹ ⁰ ¹","PeriodicalId":153743,"journal":{"name":"The Summa Halensis","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117159829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alexander’s Commentary on the Rule in Relation to the Summa Halensis","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110685022-017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110685022-017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":153743,"journal":{"name":"The Summa Halensis","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129770065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Summa Halensis and Augustine","authors":"L. Schumacher","doi":"10.1515/9783110685022-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110685022-005","url":null,"abstract":": Augustine of Hippo is, without a doubt, the authority that the Summa Halensis invokes most frequently. This has led the editors of the Summa and many other scholars subsequently to conclude that this text and the early Franciscan tradition more generally is little but an effort to systematize the tradition of Augustine that had prevailed for most of the earlier Middle Ages. In turn, that assumption has led to a tendency to downplay the significance of early Franciscan thought and to its ne-glect in scholarship. This chapter will highlight some significant ways in which the Summa departs from Augustine in the process of innovation. In the first of three case studies, I will show how the Summa employs a methodology, in fact, scholastic methodology, which invokes invoking authorities like Augustine with a view to advancing its own opinions which are not necessarily found in Augustine himself. In two further studies, I will examine how the Summa departs from Augustine on two of its most fundamental theological doctrines concerning the nature of God as one and as Triune. explicit","PeriodicalId":153743,"journal":{"name":"The Summa Halensis","volume":"112 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120842593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}