The beauty of the Trinity : a reading of the Summa halensis / Justin Coyle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coyle, Justin, author.

Rosemann, Philipp W., author.

Series:

Medieval philosophy.

Medieval Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Summary:

In this book Justin Shaun Coyle remembers the theology of beauty of the forgotten Summa Halensis, an early thirteenth-century text written by Franciscan friars at the University of Paris. Many scholars vaunt the Summa Halensis—conceived but not drafted entirely by Alexander of Hales (d. 1245)—for its teaching on beauty and its influence on giants of the high scholastic idiom. But few read the text’s teaching theologically—as a teaching about God. The Beauty of the Trinity: A Reading of the Summa Halensis proposes an interpretation of the Summa’s beauty-teaching as deeply and inexorably theological, even trinitarian. The book takes as its keystone a passage in which the Summa Halensis identifies beauty with the “sacred order of the divine persons.” If beauty names a trinitarian structure rather than a divine attribute, then the text teaches beauty where it teaches trinity. So The Beauty of the Trinity trawls the massive Summa Halensis for beauty across passages largely ignored by the literature. Taking seriously the Summa’s own definition of beauty rather than imposing onto the text modernity’s narrow aesthetic categories allows Coyle to identity beauty nearly everywhere across the text’s pages: in its teaching on the transcendental determinations of being, on the trinity proper, on creation, on psychology, on grace. A medieval text must teach beauty that appreciates beauty theologically beyond the constricted and anachronistic boundaries that often limit study of medieval aesthetics. Readers of medieval theology and theological aesthetics both will find in The Beauty of the Trinity a depiction of how an early scholastic summa thinks beauty according to the mystery of the trinity.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword by Philipp W. Rosemann

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: Beauty among the Transcendentals

1. Transcendentals and Trinity

Transcendentals in the Summa Halensis

A Trinitarian Motive

2. Transcendentals as Trinitarian Appropriation

A Grammar of Trinitarian Appropriation

One, True, and Good as Trinitarian Appropriations

3. Beauty as Transcendental Order

Is Beauty a Transcendental? An Aesthetic Aporia

An Anonymous Proposal

Beauty as Sacred Order of the Trinity

Beauty as Order of the Transcendentals

Part II: The Trinity's Beauty ad intra

4. The Beauty the Trinity Is

Persons and Processions

The Order of the Trinity

Is Not the Son Beauty, Too?

Part III: The Trinity's Beauty ad extra

5. The Beauty Creation Is

Creation and Trinitarian Processions

Trinitarian Causality

Trinitarian Traces

The Beauty of Creation

6. The Beauty the Soul Is

The Soul and Its Powers: A Disputed Question

The Soul and Its Powers in the Early Halensian School

Brother Alexander on the Imago trinitatis

7. The Beauty Grace Gives

Sin as Antitrinity

Grace's Trinitarian Condition

The Trinitarian Structure of Grace

Grace as Trinitarian Enjoyment

Conclusion &amp

ad obiectiones

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781531500023

1531500021

OCLC:

1371573541