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9780520218703

Living Letters of the Law

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520218703

  • ISBN10:

    0520218701

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-11-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

Christian thinkers of the Middle Ages constructed a Jew who served a vital purpose in their theology: Living Letters will study this Jew's character, function and power in the Christian imagintion, from Augustine until Thomas Aquinas.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
List of Abbreviations
ix
Introduction 1(18)
PART ONE: AUGUSTINIAN FOUNDATIONS 19(48)
The Doctrine of Jewish Witness
23(44)
PART TWO: THE AUGUSTINIAN LEGACY IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES: ADAPTATION, REINTERPRETATION, RESISTANCE 67(80)
Gregory the Great: Between Sicut Iudaeis and Adversus Iudaeos
73(22)
Isidore of Seville: Anti-Judaism and the Hermeneutics of Integration
95(28)
Agobard of Lyons: Battling the Enemies of Christian Unity
123(24)
PART THREE: RECONCEPTUALIZING JEWISH DISBELIEF IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY 147(166)
Reason in Defense of the Faith: From Anselm of Canterbury to Peter Alfonsi
167(52)
Against the Backdrop of Holy War: Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter the Venerable
219(52)
Renaissance Men and Their Dreams
271(42)
PART FOUR: THE FRIARS RECONSIDERED 313(78)
Judaism as Heresy: Thirteenth-Century Churchmen and the Talmud
317(47)
Ambiguities of Thomistic Synthesis
364(27)
Afterword 391(10)
References 401(36)
Index 437

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