A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology: The Summa Halensis
Oleg Bychkov, "A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology: The Summa Halensis "
English | ISBN: 0823298841 | 2022 | 288 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0823298841 | 2022 | 288 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology presents for the first time in English key passages from the Summa Halensis, one of the first major installments in the summa genre for which scholasticism became famous. This systematic work of philosophy and theology was collaboratively written mostly between 1236 and 1245 by the founding members of the Franciscan school, such as Alexander of Hales and John of La Rochelle, who worked at the recently founded University of Paris.
Modern scholarship has often dismissed this early Franciscan intellectual tradition as unoriginal, merely systematizing the Augustinian tradition in light of the rediscovery of Aristotle, paving the way for truly revolutionary figures like John Duns Scotus. But as the selections in this reader show, it was this earlier generation that initiated this break with precedent. The compilers of the
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