Food and the Body: Some Peculiar Questions in High Medieval Theology

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-90-04-11532-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 69, 462 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1001 g

Reihe: Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesg

Whether or not food passes into the truth of human nature" was among the questions that scholastic theologians routinely disputed. Many twelfth-century theologians, including Peter Lombard, argued that the "truth" of every human body came entirely from Adam, and that food stimulated its growth but was not incorporated into it. Parisian masters in the thirteenth-century rejected Lombard's position; some Oxford masters defended it, appealing to theories of light and prime matter.
The first part of the book traces the origins of such questions in theology, medicine and natural philosophy. The second part analyzes their treatment and development in thirteenth-century theology.
The study illumines theologians' opinions about reproduction, fetal development, growth, nutrition, digestion, aging, corporeal identity, matter, physical quantity, the resurrection, and the relationship between theology and the natural sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reynolds

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction

Part One Background
1. "In Whom All Sinned"
2. The Truth of Human Nature
3. Aristotle on Growth and Nutrition
4. Radical Moisture
5. Theologica, Physica, Medicina

Part Two Foreground
6. Development of the Parisian Consensus
7. In Defense of Peter Lombard
8. Albertus Magnus (I): Nutrition
9. Albertus Magnus (II): Sexual Reproduction and the Formative Power
10. Albertus MAgnus (III): Differentiation and Regeneration
11. Albertus Magnus (IV): The Truth of Human Nature
12. Bonaventure
13. Thomas Aquinas (I): Food and the Body
14. Thomas Aquinas (II): Identity and Reiteration in the Resurrection

Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Lyndon Reynolds, Ph.D. (1986) in Religious Studies, Toronto, is Aquinas Associate Professor of Catholic Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, where he is on the faculty of the Candler School of Theology. He is the author of Marriage in the Western Church (Brill, 1994). His teaching and research focus on Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure.