LITURGICALLY TRAINED MEMORY: A READING OF SUMMA THEOLOGIAE III.83
Peter M. Candler
Drawing on Ciceronian rhetorical tropes, Thomas Aquinas treats the rite of Eucharist in terms classical ars memoriae. The Eucharist, for Aquinas, is schooling desire whereby we are trained to order associations our memory their proper objects relations God. He thus conceives liturgy Mass as rhetoric proper, which truly teaches, moves and delights. Since condition all thought, both Augustine claim, “site” theological production, therefore art other similar arts derivative.
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