A Poetic Christ
Thomist Reflections on Scripture, Language and Reality
1st Edition
Published on 21. February 2019
496 pages
978-0-567-68472-1 (ISBN)
Description
Olivier-Thomas Venard's Thomas d'Aquin poète théologien trilogy, an in depth analysis of the scripture of St. Thomas Aquinas, is translated for a new audience in this streamlined anthology. Featuring selections from all three books in the trilogy, chosen in accordance with Venard's direction and discernment, it introduces not only arguments pertinent to the theme of this volume, but an invitation to explore the full breadth of Venard's work.
Concentrating on the subjects of scripture, theology and literature, language as a theological question and the word of God, Murphy and Oakes capture the scope and energy of Venard's trilogy while collating many of its key passages. Ranging from the themes of a poetic gospel and Christology to the Thomist theories of semiology and the metaphysics of the Word, this volume sets scholars on the path to a deeper understanding of Aquinas's systematic theology.
Concentrating on the subjects of scripture, theology and literature, language as a theological question and the word of God, Murphy and Oakes capture the scope and energy of Venard's trilogy while collating many of its key passages. Ranging from the themes of a poetic gospel and Christology to the Thomist theories of semiology and the metaphysics of the Word, this volume sets scholars on the path to a deeper understanding of Aquinas's systematic theology.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-0-567-68472-1 (9780567684721)
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Persons
Olivier-Thomas Venard is Deputy Director at École Biblique et Archéologique, Israel.
Francesca Aran Murphy is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, USA.
Kenneth Oakes is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, USA.
Francesca Aran Murphy is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, USA.
Kenneth Oakes is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, USA.
Content
Author's Acknowledgments
Translators' Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Foreword - Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame, USA
Translators' Preface
I. Scripture
1. A Poetic Gospel?
2. Towards a Poetic Christology
II. Theology and Literature
3. 'I am not a writer': Is There a Literary Vocation?
4. 'To Contemplate and to Hand On': The Literary Drama of the Theologian's Vocation
5. The Idea and Poetics of the Summa theologiae
6. Language That Wanted to Make Itself as Strong as the Word
7. In Search of the Lost Word
III. Language as a Theological Question
8. Little Thomasian Semiology
9. A Thomist Response: The Metaphysics of the Word
10. The Existence of Language as a Theological Question
IV. Word, Cross, Eucharist
11. The Cross of Jesus, the Summit of the Word of God
12. The Cross of Jesus, Source of Theological Speech
13. The Eucharist, the Exercise in Adoration - Glosses on 'Adoro Te'
V. Conclusion
14. 'The Hour Comes and Has Come...'
Appendix
Bibliography
Index of Names
Translators' Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Foreword - Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame, USA
Translators' Preface
I. Scripture
1. A Poetic Gospel?
2. Towards a Poetic Christology
II. Theology and Literature
3. 'I am not a writer': Is There a Literary Vocation?
4. 'To Contemplate and to Hand On': The Literary Drama of the Theologian's Vocation
5. The Idea and Poetics of the Summa theologiae
6. Language That Wanted to Make Itself as Strong as the Word
7. In Search of the Lost Word
III. Language as a Theological Question
8. Little Thomasian Semiology
9. A Thomist Response: The Metaphysics of the Word
10. The Existence of Language as a Theological Question
IV. Word, Cross, Eucharist
11. The Cross of Jesus, the Summit of the Word of God
12. The Cross of Jesus, Source of Theological Speech
13. The Eucharist, the Exercise in Adoration - Glosses on 'Adoro Te'
V. Conclusion
14. 'The Hour Comes and Has Come...'
Appendix
Bibliography
Index of Names
