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De subiecto theologiae: Gerardus Odonis and the Nature of Theological Knowledge and Theological Authority in the Early Fourteenth-Century
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De subiecto theologiae: Gerardus Odonis and the Nature of Theological Knowledge and Theological Authority in the Early Fourteenth-Century
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Porter, Camarin M., author.
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9780438029200
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1 electronic resource (180 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Karl Shoemaker Committee members: Paula Gottlieb; Elizabeth Lapina; Johann Sommerville; Lee Wandel.
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"De subiecto theologiae: Gerardus Odonis and the Nature of Theological Knowledge and Theological Authority in the Early Fourteenth-Century" examines the Sentences commentary of Gerardus Odonis, O.F.M. (d. 1349), a theologian at the university of Paris, and later one of the Franciscan Order's most controversial Minister Generals. Looking at questions from Book I of the commentary and its Prologue, this project adopts Odonis as a lens for analyzing contemporary debates over the nature of theology as an activity and a body of knowledge. By the early fourteenth century, theology existed as both a specialized academic activity at the universities and a field of inquiry into the meaning of the Christian faith as revealed in Scripture. However, scholars themselves debated theology's ultimate end and the limits to human reasoning about the mysteries of the faith. Scriptural study and commentary could synthesize and simplify the faith for the majority of the laity, and serve as a pastoral tool to strenghten believers' faith. It could also provide deeper understanding of the faith for those seeking it a level of higher level of study. Tensions arising from those divergent purposes generated questions about the nature of theology, including its audience and the proper object or subject matter of theological inquiry, and the certitude of theological and doctrinal knowledge. Responses to these questions depended on the degree to which scholars upheld theology as reasoned investigation according to the terms of Aristotelian logic, and whether the framework and terminology of Aristotelian reasoning could be accurately applied to the interpretation of revealed Scripture. Debate continued over whether a science of theology would be speculative or practical in purpose, what habit it would engender, and the suitability of characterizing the articuli fidei (articles of faith), as self-evident first principles. Odonis' responses reveal a provocative Franciscan thinker negotiating a moderate position of support for theology as a practical science, but simultaneously defending the primacy of the habit of faith and the nature of theology as a tool for strengthening the faith, in a landscape of tension among theologians, canonists, and the papacy over the boundaries of doctrinal authority.
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School code: 0262
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