Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris Book contents
- Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris
- Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Preliminaries
- Part Two Thomas Aquinas
- Part Three Bonaventure
- 10 Bonaventure’s Inception Principium
- 11 Bonaventure’s Resumptio
- 12 Searching the Depths of the Lombard
- 13 Exalting Our Understanding
- 14 The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Me
- 15 Bonaventure, Sermo Modernus–Style Preaching, and Biblical Commentary
- 16 A Master’s Praise of Scripture
- 17 The Union of Paris and Assisi
- 18 The Reduction of the Arts to Theology Redux
- 19 Summary and Concluding Remarks
- Appendix 1 Outlines of the Divisiones Textus of the Books of the Bible from the Inception Resumptio Addresses of Four Thirteenth-Century Masters
- Works Cited
- Index
14 - The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Me
The Prologue to Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Gospel of Luke
from Part Three - Bonaventure
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2021
- Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris
- Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Preliminaries
- Part Two Thomas Aquinas
- Part Three Bonaventure
- 10 Bonaventure’s Inception Principium
- 11 Bonaventure’s Resumptio
- 12 Searching the Depths of the Lombard
- 13 Exalting Our Understanding
- 14 The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Me
- 15 Bonaventure, Sermo Modernus–Style Preaching, and Biblical Commentary
- 16 A Master’s Praise of Scripture
- 17 The Union of Paris and Assisi
- 18 The Reduction of the Arts to Theology Redux
- 19 Summary and Concluding Remarks
- Appendix 1 Outlines of the Divisiones Textus of the Books of the Bible from the Inception Resumptio Addresses of Four Thirteenth-Century Masters
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
One of Bonaventure’s most sophisticated prologues is the prologue to his Commentary on the Gospel of Luke. Although it is likely that the text of this commentary underwent several revisions between its first version and the final one found in the Quaracchi edition, Bonaventure most likely undertook the first version of the work in 1248 while he was a lector biblicus in the Franciscan studium at Paris but not yet a master at the University. Scholars agree that the text shows remarkable proficiency; indeed Theodore Crowley has claimed that “a mere baccalarius biblicus” could not have produced the Commentary on Luke. “The Commentary in its present state is undoubtedly the work of a master and not a beginner.” Jay Hammond’s suggestion, though, seems most reasonable: that Bonaventure composed the earliest version while he was still a lector biblicus, a position above a cursor biblicus (who could give only a cursory reading of the text) but below a magister (the position needed to “determine” a question arising within the text). Even so, the sophistication of this early prologue is still quite remarkable.
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- Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval ParisPreaching, Prologues, and Biblical Commentary, pp. 319 - 327Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021