Book contents
- Early Franciscan Theology
- Early Franciscan Theology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Early Franciscan Theology: An Introduction
- Chapter 2 The Franciscan Context
- Chapter 3 The Philosophical Context
- Chapter 4 Theological Vision
- Chapter 5 Theistic Proof
- Chapter 6 The Divine Nature
- Chapter 7 The Trinity: Context
- Chapter 8 The Trinity: Doctrine
- Chapter 9 Christology
- Chapter 10 Incarnation
- Chapter 11 Moral Theology
- Chapter 12 Conclusion: The Promise of Early Franciscan Theology
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 9 - Christology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 June 2019
- Early Franciscan Theology
- Early Franciscan Theology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Early Franciscan Theology: An Introduction
- Chapter 2 The Franciscan Context
- Chapter 3 The Philosophical Context
- Chapter 4 Theological Vision
- Chapter 5 Theistic Proof
- Chapter 6 The Divine Nature
- Chapter 7 The Trinity: Context
- Chapter 8 The Trinity: Doctrine
- Chapter 9 Christology
- Chapter 10 Incarnation
- Chapter 11 Moral Theology
- Chapter 12 Conclusion: The Promise of Early Franciscan Theology
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the late thirteenth century, John Duns Scotus championed an account of the hypostatic union, or the union of Christ’s human and divine natures, which has been closely associated with his legacy ever since. This account has often been regarded as the first major instance of an attempt to relate the human to the divine nature of Christ as a substance to an accident. Many years before Scotus, however, the Halensian Summists had already developed a version of this account, which can also be found, albeit in a more elementary form, in earlier contemporary sources. The purpose of this chapter is to outline the contours of the Summa’s substance–accident model and the unique context in which it was written. As we have seen, this was a context in which the work of Avicenna was highly influential, not least when it came to providing the metaphysical underpinnings for the Franciscan account of the hypostatic union. The subsequent generation was dominated principally by Aristotle, whose works were enthusiastically although not uncritically appropriated by Bonaventure’s Dominican counterpart, Thomas Aquinas.
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- Early Franciscan TheologyBetween Authority and Innovation, pp. 183 - 211Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019