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A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology - The Summa Halensis (Hardcover)
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A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology - The Summa Halensis (Hardcover)
Series: Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies
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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 Summa Halensis first articulated many
positions that eventually become closely associated with the
Franciscan tradition on issues like the nature of God, the proof
for God's existence, free will, the transcendentals, and
Christology. This book is essential reading for anyone wishing to
understand the ways in which medieval thinkers employed
philosophical concepts in a theological context as well as the
evolution of Franciscan thought and its legacy to modernity. A
Reader in Early Franciscan Theology is available from the publisher
on an open-access basis.
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