A poetic Christ : Thomist reflections on scripture, language and reality / Olivier-Thomas Venard ; translated by Kenneth Oakes and Francesca Aran Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Venard, Olivier-Thomas, author.

Contributor:

Oakes, Kenneth, translator.

Murphy, Francesca Aran, translator.

Series:

Illuminating modernity.

Illuminating modernity

Standardized Title:

Thomas d'Aquin poète théologien. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. Summa theologica.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274--Language.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274--Writing skill.

Catholic Church--Doctrines.

Catholic Church.

Metaphysics.

Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (597 pages)

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Other Title:

Thomist reflections on scripture, language and reality

Place of Publication:

London, England : T&T Clark, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-470) and index.

ISBN:

9780567684714

0567684717

9780567684707

0567684709

9780567684721

0567684725

OCLC:

1201426664