Some Later Medieval Theories of the Eucharist
Thomas Aquinas, Gilles of Rome, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 August 2012
- ISBN 9780199658169
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 236x163x17 mm
- Weight 524 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
How can the Body and Blood of Christ, without ever leaving heaven, come to be really present on eucharistic altars where the bread and wine still seem to be? Marilyn McCord Adams examines how this question and its answer ("transubstantiation") engaged thirteenth and fourteenth century philosophical theologians.
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How can the Body and Blood of Christ, without ever leaving heaven, come to be really present on eucharistic altars where the bread and wine still seem to be? Thirteenth and fourteenth century Christian Aristotelians thought the answer had to be "transubstantiation."
Acclaimed philosopher, Marilyn McCord Adams, investigates these later medieval theories of the Eucharist, concentrating on the writings of Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham, with some reference to Peter Lombard, Hugh of St. Victor, and Bonaventure. She examines how their efforts to formulate and integrate this theological datum provoked them to make significant revisions in Aristotelian philosophical theories regarding the metaphysical structure and location of bodies, differences between substance and accidents, causality and causal powers, and fundamental types of change. Setting these developments in the theological context that gave rise to the question draws attention to their understandings of the sacraments and their purpose, as well as to their understandings of the nature and destiny of human beings.
Adams concludes that their philosophical modifications were mostly not ad hoc, but systematic revisions that made room for transubstantiation while allowing Aristotle still to describe what normally and naturally happens. By contrast, their picture of the world as it will be (after the last judgment) seems less well integrated with their sacramental theology and their understandings of human nature.
There are few books that are as careful in its detail and as cosmic in its scope as Adams's Some Later Medieval Theories of the Eucharist: Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham. I heartily recommend it to anyone interested in understanding the nature of Christ's presence among us.
Table of Contents:
Prologue
Introduction
Aristotelian Preliminaries
I: Why Sacraments?
What, Why, and Wherefore
Sacramental Causality: 'Effecting What They Figure!'
II: The Metaphysics and Physics of Real Presence
Explaining the Presence, Identifying the Change: Aquinas and Giles of Rome
Duns Scotus on Placement Problems
Duns Scotus on Two Types of Transsubstantiation
Remodelling with Ockham
Accidents without Substance: Aquinas and Gilles of Rome
Independent Accidents: Scotus and Ockham
Theology Provoking Philosophy
III: What Sort of Union?
Eucharistic Eating and Drinking
Sacraments, Why Ceasing?
Post-Script
List of Numbered Propositions
Bibliography
