Medieval Exegesis, Vol. 3: The Four Senses of Scripture

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1998 - Religion - 800 pages
For many years biblical scholars were convinced that the Middle Ages was marked by a so-called pre-critical understanding of the Bible, with only a handful of isolated exceptions -- like Andrew of St. Victor -- popping up as precursors of the historical-critical method. Here, however, Henri de Lubac draws on extensive documentation to demonstrate that even among the Victorines traditional exegesis involving an interplay between the literal and spiritual senses of Scripture is a constant throughout medieval exegesis. The one exception -- a radically important one, de Lubac readily admits -- was Joachim of Flora, whose doctrine is considered in the final chapter of this volume.

This third English volume of de Lubac's monumental Medieval Exegesis covers volume 2, part 1 of his French volume and includes both the original Latin notes and an English version of the sources.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
Theology Scripture and the Fourfold Sense
15
The Opposing Lists
75
Patristic Origins
117
The Latin Origen
161
The Unity of the Two Testaments
225
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Henri de Lubac, S.J. (1896 1991) was a Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church and one of the most significant theologians of the twentieth century, influencing the climate of the Second Vatican Council. Along with Joseph Ratzinger and Hans Urs von Balthasar, de Lubac founded Catholic journal Communio.