Dominican Culture, Dominican Theology : The Order of Preachers and Its Spheres of Action (1215 - Ca. 1600).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wöller, Florian.

Contributor:

Wöller, Florian.

Series:

Archa Verbi. Subsidia Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Münster : Aschendorff Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 2025.

Summary:

In the early 13th century, a novel concept of religious community overran the occidental world: the Dominican Order.Unlike earlier religious orders who confined monks to the purview of praying the liturgy and living a life of contemplative seclusion, the Dominicans, by means of preaching, focused on engaging with the broad community beyond.

Contents:

Title

Table of Contents

Preface

List of Figures

Dominican Culture, Dominican Theology. Introduction

I. Dominican Identities and Cultures of Expertise

Giving Advice to the Pope. Dominicans as Experts During the Pontificate of Pope John XXII

1. Relations

2. Perspectives

3. Talking It Over

4. Conclusion

Black Friars as Heresy Experts. Dominican Identities and Inquisitorial Expert Culture in Late Medieval France and Aragon

1. The Practitioner and the Professors

2. Friar, Scholar, Heresy Expert: Nicholas Eymerich

3. Doing Boundaries: What Pertains to the Inquisitor's Office?

4. Contesting Boundaries: The Inquisitors and Their Critics

5. Conclusion

The Monzón Affair (1387-1403) and the Construction of a Dominican Thomist Identity

1. The 'Monzón Affair': Historical Background and Main Issues

2. The Condemned Propositions

2.1 Scriptural Text and Doctrinal Development

2.2 Immaculate Conception and Thomist Angelology

2.3 materia subjecta and Philosophical Necessitarianism

3. Thomist Orthodoxy and Theological Authority

4. Denouement and Conclusions

The Grabow Case. An Example of Dominican Identity at the Council of Constance

1. The Grabow Case: History and Course of the Trial

2. The Theological Argumentation

2.1 Matthäus Grabow

2.2 Pierre d'Ailly

2.3 Jean Gerson

3. Some Conclusions

II. Preaching and Liturgy

Mnemonic Verse, Theology, and Pedagogy in Augustinus de Dacia's († 1285) Rotulus pugillaris

1. The Pedagogical Scope of the Rotulus pugillaris

2. Structure and Models of the Rotulus pugillaris

3. Mnemonic Verses in Thirteenth-Century Theology and in the Rotulus pugillaris

4. The Reception of the Rotulus pugillaris with Special Regard to Mnemonic Verse

Guy of Saint-Denis and Jerome of Moravia on the Modally Sequential Office.

1. The Feast of St Peter the Martyr

2. The Poissy Antiphonal and the Feast of St Peter the Martyr

3. Conclusion

In Vigilia Sancti Iohannis Babtiste. St Vicent Ferrer on the Vigil of John the Baptist in a Catalán Sermon

1. Introduction

2. The Uniqueness of John the Baptist

3. The Five Sanctifications

3.1 Final Contrition

3.1.1 The Example of the Good Thief

3.1.2 The Question of Purgatory

3.2 Penitential Conversion

3.3 Martyrial Affliction

3.4 Baptismal Cleansing

3.5 Special Predestination

Liturgical Chant and Devotional Practices in Late Medieval Dominican Nunneries

1. Dominican Liturgy in the Thirteenth Century: Differences Between Friars and Sisters

2. The Marian Cult in Dominican Convents

3. Specificities of the Dominican Salve regina

4. Female Saints in Dominican Convents: Three Examples of Liturgical Veneration

5. Chant and Devotional Practices as Described in Sister-Books

6. Practical Performance

III. Memory and Material Cultures

Rethinking Relic Devotion in Medieval Dominican Culture

1. Looking for the Beginnings of Dominican Relic Culture

2. Transformations of Holy Materiality

3. Imaginative Relics

4. Conclusions

Lay Death and Burial in Dominican Habits

1. History

2. Incidence

3. Reasons

4. Controversy

The Iconography of Dominican Saints Found on the Claus Berg Altarpiece Made for the Priory of St Nicholas in Aarhus, Denmark

2. The Dominican Order in Scandinavia

3. Dominican Art

3.1 The Iconography of St Dominic

3.2 The Iconography of St Peter Martyr

3.3 The Iconography of St Thomas Aquinas

3.4 The Iconography of St Vincent Ferrer

3.5 The Iconography of St Catherine of Siena

3.6 Multiple Dominican Saints Depicted Together

4. The Priory of St Nicholas in Aarhus.

4.1 Decoration in the Priory around the Time the Altarpiece was Made

4.2 The Altarpiece of the Priory of St Nicholas

4.3 The Maker of the Altarpiece

4.4 Scholarship on the Dominican Saints Found on the Altarpiece

4.5 A Revised Interpretation of the Dominican Saints on the Altarpiece

IV. Dionysian Theology

Pseudo-Dionysian Thought in Early Dominican Theology: The Concept of Ordo in Guerric of St Quentin's In Lamentationes

1. Narrative Ordo

2. Ordo, Contemplation, and the Soul

3. Ordo in City and Soul

4. Ordo and Society

5. Concluding Remarks

Between Philosophical and Christian Contemplation. The Role of Dionysius in the Writings of Albert the Great

1. The Affect of Wonder According to Peripatetic Philosophy

2. Dionysian Mystical Theology as the Paradigm for Christian Contemplation

3. The Role of Piety and Love in Christian Theology in the Commentary on the Sentences

4. Dionysius's Epistle VII and the Christian Response to Philosophical Error

Dionysius, Theologia, and Thomas's Final Summa

1. The Title of Thomas's Summa

2. Dionysius and theologia in the Twelfth Century

3. Theologia and sacra doctrina at the University of Paris

4. Thomas Aquinas and Dionysius

5. The Summa 'theologiae'

6. Conclusion

V. Albert the Great and the Plurality of Dominican Thought

Faith and Natural Philosophy in Albert the Great's Account of the generatio Christi

1. Human and Divine Embryology in Comparison: the Formation and Animation of Jesus

2. What About Mary? The Female Contribution to Jesus's Generation

3. An Alternative Explanatory Strategy: the Botanical Generative Model

4. Natural Embryology as a Biblical Exegetical Tool

5. Conclusion.

The Book of Job Through the Lens of the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotelian Fortitude and Virtuousness of Job's Lamentation in Albert the Great's Commentary on Job 6:11-12

2. Aristotle's Courage and Albert's fortitudo

3. "My Fortitude Is not the Fortitude of Stones": Job's Aristotelian Patience

4. The Virtuousness of Job's Lamentation

Neo-Platonic Ways and Levels of Knowledge in the Interpretation of Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas and

1. Dionysius's Doctrine of the Three Motions of the Soul and Two Modern Interpretations

2. The Three Dionysian Motions of Cognition in the Interpretation of Albert the Great

3. The Three Dionysian Motions of Cognition in the Interpretation of Thomas Aquinas

4. A New Way of Interpreting Dionysius: Berthold of Moosburg's Use of Proclus

VI. Dominicans on Prayer

Thomas Aquinas on Petitionary Prayer and Divine Providence

2. Thomas Aquinas and Prayer

3. Petitionary Prayer in the Horizon of the Doctrine of Divine Providence: the Summa contra gentiles

3.1 The Approach of the Summa contra gentiles

3.2 "The Immutability of Divine Providence Does not Exclude the Benefit of (Petitionary) Prayer"

3.2.1 The Structure of the Double Chapter and the Nature of the Argumentation

3.2.2 On the Content of the Argument

4. Petitionary Prayer and Divine Providence in the Horizon of the Doctrine of Prayer: the Summa Theologiae

4.1 Literary Context

4.2 Prayer

5. Petitionary Prayer as a Necessary Element within Divine Providence: the Compendium theologiae

6. Actual Petitionary Prayer: the Collationes in Orationem Dominicam

7. Conclusion

Meister Eckhart on Petitionary Prayer and the Relationship between God and Human

2. Comments on Prayer in the Treatise Counsels on Discernment.

3. Comments on Prayer in the Treatise On Detachment

4. Comments on Prayer in Eckhart's Vernacular Sermons

Johannes Tauler on Petitionary Prayer. An Attempt at Bridging the Gap Between Ecclesiastical Tradition and Mystical Thought

2. Petitionary Prayer as a Controversial Tradition

3. The Mystical Concept of Releasement as a Questioning of Petitionary Prayer

4. Tauler's Attempt to Bridge the Gap Between Ecclesiastical Tradition and Mystical Thought

VII. Dominicans and the 'Others'

The Dominicans and 'the Others'. The Friars Preachers as Vanguard Against Pagans,Orthodox, Jews, Muslims, and Heretics.The Case of the Baltic Sea Region

1. Dominicans and Pagans in the Baltic Sea Region

2. The Dominican Mission to the Pagans in Pomerania, Prussia, and Lithuania

3. The Dominican Mission to the Pagans in Livonia

4. The Dominican Mission to the Pagans in Estonia

5. The Dominican Mission to the Pagans in Finland, Tavastia, and Karelia

6. A Dominican Inquisition Against the Pagans in Scandinavia?

7. Dominicans and Orthodox Christians in the Baltic Sea Region

8. Dominicans and Jews in the Baltic Sea Region

9. Dominicans and Muslims in the Baltic Sea Region

10. Dominicans and Heretics in the Baltic Sea Region

10.1 Dominican Inquisition Against Heretics in Saxonia and Polonia

10.2 Dominican Inquisition Against the Heretics in Dacia

11. Conclusion

The Dominican Order and Eastern Christianity in the Thirteenth Century

1. Jacobites and Nestorians

2. The Armenian Church

3. Greek Orthodox Church

Just a Quarrel of Monks? Dominicans, Augustinians and the Early Reformation

1. Drawing up the Case: the Augustinians

2. Staging the Conflict: the Dominicans

2.1 Johannes Tetzel

2.2 Sylvester Prierias

2.3 Thomas Cajetan.

3. Disturbing the Image Further.

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ISBN:

3-402-10334-6