God's wisdom and human reason: The development of theology as a discipline in medieval times

ISBN 1 86888 098 2

CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING
(EIGHTH TO TENTH CENTURIES
3 OLDER WAYS: THE ROLE OF EXPERIENCE AND MONASTIC THEOLOGY (TWELFTH CENTURY) 8
3.1 Introduction
3.2 An experiential theology
3.3 A symbolic theology
3.4 The epistemological role of love
3.5 The old and the new
4 NEW EMPHASES: THE ROLE OF REASO AND THE BEGINNINGS OF SCHOLASTIC THEOLOGY
(ELEVENTH TO TWELFTH CENTURIES)
4.1 General comments
4.2 Berengar (999-1088)
4.3 Anselm of Canterbury (103}-1109)
4.4 Peter Abelard (1079-1142)
5 BECOMING AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE
(TWELFTH TO THIRTEENTH CENTURIES)
5.1 The rise of universities
5.2 The availability of new resource material
5.3 The elements of an academic discipline
6 GIVING THEOLOGY A NEW SHAPE
(TWELFTH TO THIRTEENTH CENTURIES)
6.1 The development and increasing importance of the 'quaestio'
6.2 Systematisation of theological issues
6.3 Peter Lombard's Sentences
6.4 The use of secular knowledge in theology
6.5 The rise of 'scholastic theology'
6.6 The dawning of specialisation
7 SOME DEBATES ABOUT THE NATURE OF THEOLOGY
(THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES)
7.1 Introductory remarks
7.2 What kind of knowledge is theological knowledge?
7.3 Theology's procedural methods
7.4 Is theology a 'science'?
7.5 What then is 'theology'?
8 SECTIONAL LOYALTIES AND THE DECLINE OF CREATIVITY
(FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES)
8.1 The rise of sectional loyalties
8.2 The decline of creativity
9 THE SPIRITUAL STREAM: THE THEOLOGY OF WISDOM
9.1 Introductory remarks
9.2 The theology of the 'gifts of the Spirit'
9.3 Setting the pattern: Peter Lombard on the gift of wisdom
9.4 Albert the Great
9.5 Bonaventure
9.6 Thomas Aquinas
9.7 Conclusions
10 LIST OF WORKS REFERRED TO
10.1 Primary sources
10.2 Secondary sources