In principio erat Verbum

Philosophy and Theology in the Commentaries on the Gospel of John (III-XIV Century)

Fabrizio Amerini

• Publisher: Aschendorff
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9783402102268
• eBook ISBN:
  9783402195383
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christianity

The contributors to this book have been invited to choose some important exponents within the tradition of the Commentaries on the Gospel of John and to look at them from a philosophical perspective, bringing to light the philosophical topics that occur in the Prologue or in other places of the Gospel. Contributions extend from 3rd to 14th century and focus on several commentators, from Origen to Meister Eckhart, passing through Augustine, John Scotus Eriugena, the School of Laon, Rupert of Deutz, Stephan Langton, Hildegard of Bingen, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, William of Altona, Peter of John Olivi and Peter Auriol.

Table of contents

• Title
• Inhalt
• Preface
• Domenico Devoti: The First Commentary on the Gospel according on St. John: The Notes of the Gnostic Heracleon
• Domenico Pazzini: Theology and Episteme in Origen’s Commentary on the Gospel of John
• Giovanni Salmeri: Qu’est-ce que l’interprétation littérale? Quelques réflexions sur le Commentaire à l’Évangile selon Jean de Théodore de Mopsueste
• Franco de Capitani: La fi gura di Giovanni nel pensiero dell’ Agostino laico
• Armando Bisogno: Dal Verbum ai verba: la teofania della Parolain Agostino e Giovanni Scoto
• Alexander Andrée: Trinitarian Theology in Commentaries on the Fourth Gospel from the School of Laon
• Mark J. Clark: The Fortuna of the Prologue to the Gospel of John in Four Important, Twelfth-Century Texts: the Glossed John, Peter Comestor’s lectures on the Glossed John, Comestor’s Historia scholastica, and Langton’s Course on the History
• Abigail Ann Young: Rupert of Deutz, John, and Moses: The Figure of Moses in the Fourth Gospel through a Twelfth-Century Lens
• Marta Cristiani: Ildegarda di Bingen e l’ermeneutica del Prologo
• Julie Casteigt: Quelques propositions synthétiques pour une lecture des interprétations albertienne et eckhartienne de Jn. 1,6–8
• Graziano Perillo: La nozione di Verbum nellʼesegesi a In principio erat Verbum nella Lectura super Iohannem di Tommaso d’Aquino. Aspetti teoretici e interpretativi
• Timothy Bellamah: Authorship and Authorial Intention in William of Altona’s Postilla Super Iohannem
• Christian Rode: Peter of John Olivi’s Theory of the Verbum in Comparison with William of Ockham’s Intellectio-Theory
• William O. Duba: The Man in the Middle: Peter Auriol’s Syllogistic Commentaries on the Gospel of John
• Alessandro Palazzo: Philosophical meanings of lux (Jo. 1,4–5, 1,9) in Eckhart’s Commentary on the Gospel of John
• Index of Names