The Contested Theological Authority of Thomas Aquinas: The Controversies Between Hervaeus Natalis and Durandus of St. Pourcain, 1307-1323

by Lowe,Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780415943536
• ISBN10: 0415943531
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Elizabeth Lowe offers a vivid illustration of how a major shift in the Dominican intellectual tradition occurred. The adoption and eventual promotion of the teachings of Aquinas by the Order of Preachers ran counter to every other current running through the late thirteenth-century Church; most scholastics, the Dominican Order included, were wary of his unconventional teachings. Despite this, the Dominican Order was propelled along their "solitary via Thomae by conflicts between two groups of magistri: Aquinas's early Dominican followers and their more conservative neo-Augustinian brethren.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Dominican Order and Its Educational Structures	p. 11
Charismatic Origins	p. 12
Translation into an Institution	p. 16
Early Growth	p. 20
Study, Schools, and Scholars	p. 22
Friar Preachers at the University	p. 29
The Dominican Intellectual Tradition	p. 35
The Friar Preachers and the Methodology of the Schools	p. 36
Aristotle among the Friar Preachers	p. 43
Thomas Aquinas, the Condemnations, and Their Consequences	p. 49
Dominican Reactions to the Condemnations	p. 53
The Historical Background of the Controversies	p. 57
Early Dominican Thomists	p. 59
The Predominance of the Augustinian Tradition, 1277-1307	p. 64
The Antagonists	p. 67
Hervaeus Natalis and Durandus of St. Pourcain	p. 72
Conclusion	p. 82
Selected Issues in the Controversies	p. 85
The Debate over Relation	p. 87
The Debate over Cognition	p. 96
The Debate over Theology	p. 99
The Controversies and the Question of Aquinas' Theological Authority	p. 107
Medieval Conceptions of Theological Authorities	p. 108
Natalis' and Durandus' Concepts of Auctoritas	p. 116
The Controversies and Aquinas' Auctoritas	p. 125
Conclusion	p. 135
Endnotes	p. 141
Works Cited	p. 211
Index	p. 253
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