Alan of Lille : the frontiers of theology in the later twelfth century
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Alan of Lille : the frontiers of theology in the later twelfth century
Cambridge University Press, 2008, c1983
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"This digitally printed version 2008"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 233-245
Includes index
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Description
Alan of Lille was a notable figure in the second half of the twelfth century as a theologian and as a poet and he has seemed as rich and individual a writer to modern scholars as he did to his own contemporaries. This study examines his work as a whole, in an attempt to set his well-known literary achievement in the context of his theological writings. He was in many ways a pioneer, an experimenter with several of the new genres of his day, an innovator both as a teacher and as an author. He was not an original thinker so much as an eclectic, drawing on a wide range of the sources available to his contemporaries. He shows us what might be done by a lively-minded scholar with the resources of the day, within the schools of late twelfth-century France, to bring theology alive and make it interesting and challenging to his readers.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Theologia Speculativa
- 1. Handmaids of Theology
- 2. Theologia Rationalis
- 3. Theologia Moralis
- Part II. Teologia Practica
- 4. Expedimenta
- 5. Impedimenta
- Part III. The Perfect Man
- 6. Making Man Anew.
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