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The Nature and Structure of Limbo in the Works of Albertus Magnus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Christopher Beiting
Christopher Beiting*
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Ave Maria College, 300 W. Forest Ave, Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197, USA
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New Blackfriars , Volume 85 , Issue 999 , September 2004 , pp. 492 - 509
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Copyright © The Dominican Council/Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2004

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References

1 Féret, H., “Albert le Grand”, Catholicisme, vol. 1, (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1948): 266Google Scholar.

2 Cf, for instance, Mandonnet, P., “Albert le Grand”, Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique, vol. 1, (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1930): 668Google Scholar.

3 Wilms, H., Albert the Great: Saint and Doctor of the Church(London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 1933): 157Google Scholar.

4 B. Alberti opera omnia, ed. Borgnet, A (Paris: L. Vives, 1890–1899), 38 vols.Google Scholar, hereafter abbreviated Borgnet.

5 S. Alberti Magni operum omnium(Cologne/Münster: Monasterium Westfalorum, 1951-Google Scholar), hereafter abbreviated Cologne.

6 For the chronology of these, see Lottin, O., “Commentaire des Sentences et Somme théologique d”Albert le Grand”, Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale, 8 (1936): 117–153, 137Google Scholar.

7 Glorieux, P., Répertoire des Maîtres en Théologie de Paris au 13e siècle(Paris: Vrin, 1933–1934): 63Google Scholar.

8 Weisheipl, J., Albertus Magnus and the Sciences(Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1980): 22Google Scholar.

9 H. Wilms, op.cit., 115.

10 Ibid., 47.

11 Albertus Magnus, In III Sent. d.22, c, art.3, “totus est ubique, non autem totum”, (ed. Borgnet, vol. 28, 391).

12 Ibid., “non enim habet personalitatem a natura humana, vel ab homine secundum quod homo, sed potius habuit eam ab eterno”.

13 Albertus Magnus, In III Sent. d.22, c, art.4 (ed. Borgnet, vol. 28, 392).

14 Ibid., “locus tenebrosus aliquid de luce habens propter magnam fidem et spem habitantium ibi”.

15 Ibid., “hoc non dictum est de habitantibus in limbo certa spe”, (ed. Borgnet, vol. 28, 393).

16 Ibid., “et ille non erat tunc in limbo, sed per Christum advenit”.

17 Ibid., “petivit relaxantem aliquantulum de poena quae non dabatur ei, sed dabatur habitantibus in limbo propter meritum eorum”.

18 Albertus Magnus, In III Sent., d.22, c, art.5, “et eis locum horrendi carceris in paradisum convertit, quoad hoc quod facie ad faciem deitatem ejus videbant, soluto pretio redemptionis”. (ed. Borgnet, vol. 28, 394).

19 Ibid., “limbus non erat damnatus perpetuis tenebris, sed potius temporalibus usque ad redemptionem quae facta est per Christum”.

20 Ibid., “visio aperta deitatis”.

21 See Anselm, De Conceptu virginali, esp. i–iii (ed. Schmitt, F., S. Anselmi opera omnia[Rome/Edinburgh: T. Nelson, 1938–1968], 6 vols, vol. 2, 140ff)Google Scholar.

22 Albertus Magnus, Tract III de resurrectione ex parte malorum tantum, q.7, art.1, “Unde a quo reportasset lucrum, iustum fuit, ut reportaret nocumentum”. (ed. Cologne, vol. 26, p. 318).

23 Ibid., “quod resurgent in statura, quae competit aetati triginta annorum”.

24 Ibid., art.2, “quod pueri in limbo magis elongati sunt a deo quam sanctae animae, quae sunt in purgatorio”.

25 Ibid., art.3, “quia vermis est de peccato irremissibili voluntarie perpetrato propria culpa”, (ed. Cologne, vol. 27, 319).

26 Ibid., “carentia visionis dei, quae est poena damni et non poena sensus”.

27 Ibid., “Habent tamen dei et omnium creaturarum cognitionem naturalem, not gratuitam nec eam quae est in verbo, qui naturali cognitione nullus privatur post mortem, nec damnatus nec diabolus”.

28 Ibid., “quod visio et actus sensuum corporalium post resurrectionem non informabuntur ab exterori, sed ab interiori”.

29 For more details of his embryological studies, see Delrome, A., “La morphogenèse d”Albert dans l”embryologie scolastique”, Revue Théologique 36 (1931): 352–360Google Scholar and L. Demaitre and A. Travill, “Human Embryology and Development in the Works of Albertus Magnus”, in J. Weisheipl, Albertus Magnus and the Sciences, 404–440.

30 L. Demaitre and A. Travill, op.cit., 410.

31 Albertus Magnus, In IV Sent., d.31, art.18 (ed. Borgnet, vol. 30, 250–251).

32 Ibid.

33 Albertus Magnus, In IV Sent. d.44, l, art. 44, “Dicendum, quod duplex est nativitas, scilicet in utero, et ex utero. In utero est animatio, quae dicitur hic formatio perpuerii. Et ex utero autem nativitatem non habent. Sed resurrectio sequitur primam nativitatem, et non secundam tantum”. (ed. Borgnet, vol. 30, 602).

34 Albertus Magnus, Tract I de incarnatione(ed. Cologne, vol. 26, 171).

35 Albertus Magnus, Tract III de resurrectione ex parte malorum tantum q.8 art.2, “Dicimus, quod limbus patrum est iuxta infernum, sicut dicit Symbolum, et est ora inferni coniuncta limbo puerorum. Distantia autem, de qua dicitur in Evangelio, intelligitur quantum ad distantiam meriti et consolationis, et etiam locus altior est quam infernus quoad locum damnatorum”. (ed. Cologne, vol. 26, 320).

36 Ibid., “Unde remansit quantum ad substantiam, sed non quantum ad rationem, ut possit dici limbus patrum”.

37 Ibid., art.3, “Et constat per praedicta, quod non fuit ibi vermis nec ignis”.

38 Ibid., “lumen fidei”.

39 Ibid., “non sunt poena animae exutae a corpore”.

40 Albertus Magnus, In IV Sent., d.21, d, art.10, (ed Borgnet, vol. 29, 875).

41 Albertus Magnus, In IV Sent. d.45, i, art. 45, “qui est infernus superior”(ed. Borgnet, vol. 30, 603).

42 Ibid., “dicendum, quod poena sensibilis non potest esse sine tenebris: quia tenebrae sequuntur ad aversionem, et sensibilis poena ad conversionem: et ideo nullus est locus sensibilis poenae tantum, sicut nullum est peccatum mortale habens conversionem tantum”. (ed. Borgnet, vol. 30, 604).

43 Albertus Magnus, Tract III de resurrectione ex parte malorum tantum q.9, “vel est terminus viae vel est via”. (ed. Cologne, vol. 26, 320).

44 Ibid., “quia illi non coniungitur bonum gratiae”.

45 Ibid., “scilicet quantum ad dilationem visionis.”

46 Ibid., “Sed tenebrosum est a duplici causa, scilicet a carentia luminis fidei formatae et a carentia visionis dei per speciem. Et ideo potest aliquid esse simpliciter tenebrosum quod utroque lumine caret, et aliquid secundum quid tenebrosum, scilicet quod habet alterum lumen”. (ed. Cologne, vol. 26, 321).

47 Ibid., “dicendum, quod receptacula accipiuntur a generalibus divisionibus meriti; secundum speciales enim distinguuntur mansiones in receptaculis”.

48 Albertus Magnus, In IV Sent., d.45, A, art.5, “qui nullam propter se experitur poenam judicis”. (ed. Borgnet, vol. 30, 613).

49 Ibid., “quia in omnibus satisfecerunt, quae ab homine fieri poterant”.

50 Augustine, Enchiridion ad Laurentium, 110 (P.L. 40, 283).

51 Ibid., “unde potius alios qui erant in purgatorio juvare poterant, quam juvarentur ab ipsis”.

52 Ibid. “sed potius in abundantia ingressi sunt sepulcrum, et defossi securi dormierunt usque ad Christi adventum”.

53 Augustine, De Praedestinatione sanctorum, 12..23, (P.L. 44, 978).

54 Albertus Magnus, In IV Sent., d.45, a, art.6, “sed decendens sine gratia, imperceptibilis est ad gratiae perceptionem”, (ed. Borgnet, vol. 30, 614).

55 Ibid., “et ideo peccatum efficitur immobile, non ex magnitudine peccati, sed ex statu et sententia divina”.