The Saint's Life and the Senses of Scripture
Title | The Saint's Life and the Senses of Scripture PDF eBook |
Author | Ann W. Astell |
Publisher | University of Notre Dame Pess |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2024-07-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 026820814X |
Through close examination of ancient, medieval, and modern Lives of the saints, Ann W. Astell demonstrates how the historical transformation of hagiography as a genre correlates with similar changes in biblical studies. Christian hagiography flourished from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries, illuminating the gospel through the overlapping forms of exempla and vita. Originally, the Lives of the saints were understood as hermeneutical extensions of the Bible—God authors the saint, just as God authors the divinely inspired scriptures. During the medieval period, a sense of dual authorship between God and the cooperating saint developed, paralleling the Scholastic impulse to assign greater agency to the human writers of scripture. Then, in the sixteenth century, powerful new anxieties about historical truth pushed hagiography aside for biography, its successor. Drawing on her expertise in the history of Christianity and biblical exegesis, Astell convincingly shows how this radical shift in hagiography’s status—the loss of the literal, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical senses of the Lives—serves as a bellwether for modern biblical reception.
Reading the Sermons of Thomas Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide
Title | Reading the Sermons of Thomas Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Randall B. Smith |
Publisher | Emmaus Academic |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2016-12-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1945125101 |
Preaching was immensely important in the medieval Church, and Thomas Aquinas expended much time and effort preaching. Today, however, Aquinas’s sermons remain relatively unstudied and underappreciated. This is largely because their sermo modernus style, typical of the thirteenth century, can appear odd and inaccessible to the modern reader. In Reading the Sermons of Thomas Aquinas, Randall Smith guides the reader through Aquinas’s sermons, explaining their form and content. In the process, one comes to appreciate the sermons in their rhetorical brilliance, beauty, and profound spiritual depth while simultaneously being initiated into a fascinating world of thought concerning Scripture, language, and the human mind. The book also includes analytical outlines for all of Aquinas’s extant sermons. Reading the Sermons of Thomas Aquinas: A Beginner’s Guide is an indispensable volume for those interested in the thought of Aquinas, in the intellectual and spiritual milieu in which he worked, and in the manifold ways of preaching the Gospel message.
Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation
Title | Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation PDF eBook |
Author | Pope Paul VI. |
Publisher | |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
This document's purpose is to spell out the Church's understanding of the nature of revelation--the process whereby God communicates with human beings. It touches upon questions about Scripture, tradition, and the teaching authority of the Church. The major concern of the document is to proclaim a Catholic understanding of the Bible as the "word of God." Key elements include: Trinitarian structure, roles of apostles and bishops, and biblical reading in a historical context.
Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris
Title | Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris PDF eBook |
Author | Randall B. Smith |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 463 |
Release | 2021-02-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108841155 |
By focusing attention on the importance of preaching, this book should spur a fundamental reconsideration of 'scholastic' culture and education.
Augustine and the Bible
Title | Augustine and the Bible PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | University of Notre Dame Pess |
Pages | 439 |
Release | 1999-08-19 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0268076294 |
Based on the acclaimed French volume Saint Augustin et la Bible, this translation with additional selections honors the beautifully wrought monument to the scholarly research of Anne-Marie la Bonnardière and her colleagues. Editor Pamela Bright offers the first English-language edition of this volume in the highly regarded series Bible de Tous les Temps, published by Beauchesne Editeur in Paris. This volume presents the findings of eminent scholars on the Bible in Augustine’s letters, in his preaching, in polemics, in the City of God, and as a source for Christian ethics, following the chronological order of Augustine’s works from the mid-380s to just before his death in 430. Part I examines what can be known of the stages of Augustine’s encounter with the biblical texts and which texts were formative for him before he assumed his ministry of the Word. Part II is devoted to a very different kind of encounter—Augustine’s grappling with the hermeneutical method originating in the province of Africa. Part III describes Augustine’s first foray into the field of biblical polemics when he opposes the Manichees, the very group who first introduced him to a study of the “obscurities” of the biblical text. And in Part IV, the reader encounters the most familiar voice of Augustine—that of the tireless preacher of the Word. Contributors include: Anne-Marie la Bonnardière, Mark Vessey, Michael Cameron, Pamela Bright, Robert A. Kugler, Charles Kannengiesser, Roland J. Teske, S.J., Gerald Bonner, Joseph Wolinski, Michel Albaric, O.P., Constance E. McLeese, and Albert Verwilghen.
The Gift of Scripture
Title | The Gift of Scripture PDF eBook |
Author | Catholic Church. Bishops' Conference of England and Wales |
Publisher | |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2015-01 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN | 9781860828508 |
Making Senses Out of Scripture
Title | Making Senses Out of Scripture PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Shea |
Publisher | TAN Books |
Pages | 269 |
Release | |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1505108438 |
Reading the Bible in a way that is as old as Scripture itself, award-winning author Mark P. Shea takes us on a “fly-over” of the biblical story from Genesis to Revelation. He shows you how to explore the literal, allegorical, moral, and analogical sense of Scripture. Whether you have been studying Scripture for years, or are encountering it for the very first time,Making Senses Out of Scripture is an invaluable tool that it will help you see biblical revelation afresh, as Christians have done for 2000 years.