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Teaching Bodies - Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas (Paperback)
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Teaching Bodies - Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas (Paperback)
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In Teaching Bodies, leading scholar of Christian thought Mark D.
Jordan offers an original reading of the Summa of Theology of
Thomas Aquinas. Reading backward, Jordan interprets the main parts
of the Summa, starting from the conclusion, to reveal how Thomas
teaches morals by directing attention to the way God teaches
morals, namely through embodied scenes: the incarnation, the
gospels, and the sacraments. It is Thomas’s confidence in bodily
scenes of instruction that explains the often overlooked structure
of the middle part of the Summa, which begins and ends with
Christian revisions of classical exhortations of the human body as
a pathway to the best human life. Among other things, Jordan
argues, this explains Thomas’s interest in the stages of law and
the limits of virtue as the engine of human life. Rather than offer
a synthesis of Thomistic ethics, Jordan insists that we read Thomas
as theology to discover the unification of Christian wisdom in a
pattern of ongoing moral formation. Jordan supplements his close
readings of the Summa with reflections on Thomas’s place in the
history of Christian moral teaching—and thus his relevance for
teaching and writing in the present. What remains a puzzle is why
Thomas chose to stage this incarnational moral teaching within the
then-new genres of university disputation—the genres we think of
as “Scholastic.” Yet here again the structure of the Summa
provides an answer. In Jordan’s deft analysis, Thomas’s
minimalist refusal to tell a new story except by juxtaposing
selections from inherited philosophical and theological traditions
is his way of opening room for God’s continuing narration in the
development of the human soul. The task of writing theology, as
Thomas understands it, is to open a path through the inherited
languages of classical thought so that divine pedagogy can have its
effect on the reader. As such, the task of the Summa, in Mark
Jordan’s hands, is a crucial and powerful way to articulate
Christian morals today.
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