A Companion to St. Paul in the Middle Ages. Edited by STEVEN R. CARTWRIGHT.
G. R. Evans
Commentators on Scripture in medieval universities commonly cut their teeth the Psalms and Pauline Epistles. This useful collection of essays asks how Paul became so important an influence formation early Christian doctrine seeks to trace process by which views his authority developed into Middle Ages beyond, though, despite its more general title a dip Origen, it is concerned mainly with Latin exegesis West. The first section Part I patristic commentary. Thomas P. Scheck writes ‘Origen’s interpretation Romans’, analysing debates modern scholarship, also ‘Pelagius’s Romans’; Joshua Papsdorf grapples unresolved puzzle Ambrosiaster, as providing ‘the earliest surviving set commentaries Western Christianity’. ends Aaron Canty ‘St. Augustine’. then moves Ages, beginning single though substantial essay Carolingians Ian Christopher Levy. Anne Collins covers eleventh-century commentary role glosses, taking forward pioneering work Margaret Gibson Lanfranc. Steven Cartwright twelfth century, concentrating William St Thierry Peter Abelard. It would be good have something Gilbert Poitiers, who gets only few passing mentions, others twelfth-century commentators were responsible for setting new ‘academic’ fashion commenting Paul. For thirteenth century Franklin T. Harkins tackles Aquinas later Levy Nicholas Lyra Burgos.
The Journal of Theological Studies