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 10 - Incarnation
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 previous chapter, we came to understand both that and how the Son of God assumed a human nature. But we have yet to grasp exactly why the Summa thinks he did this. According to numerous authors, the Summa follows Anselm of Canterbury’s Cur Deus Homo very closely in enumerating the reasons for the Incarnation.1 This conclusion is reached mainly by counting the number of quotations to Anselm in comparison to other sources cited in the text. As we already saw in the chapter on theistic proof, the early Franciscans, led by Alexander of Hales, were the first to appropriate Anselm’s thought, which had largely been neglected during the more than century-long gap that separated him from the early thirteenth-century scholastics.2
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- Early Franciscan TheologyBetween Authority and Innovation, pp. 212 - 241Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019