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Some Later Medieval Theories of the Eucharist
Thomas Aquinas, Gilles of Rome, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham
Marilyn McCord Adams
336 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-959105-3
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Hardback
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21 October 2010
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- An intricate survey by a world-renowned expert in medieval philosophical theology
- An introductory chapter orients students and non-specialists to presupposed Aristotelian conceptual machinery
- Gives accurate accounts of technical material on the physics and metaphysics of transubstantiation
- Overview chapter considers the methodological significance of the theoretical modifications made
- Three chapters set philosophical efforts to formulate the doctrine of transubstantiation in the theological context that gave rise to the questions
- A chart of numbered propositions helps the reader keep track of key theses
How can the Body and Blood of Christ, without ever leaving heaven, come to be really present on eucharistic altars where the bread and wine still seem to be? Thirteenth and fourteenth century Christian Aristotelians thought the answer had to be "transubstantiation."
Acclaimed philosopher, Marilyn McCord Adams, investigates these later medieval theories of the Eucharist, concentrating on the writings of Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham, with some reference to Peter Lombard, Hugh of St. Victor, and Bonaventure. She examines how their efforts to formulate and integrate this theological
datum provoked them to make significant revisions in Aristotelian philosophical theories regarding the metaphysical structure and location of bodies, differences between substance and accidents, causality and causal powers, and fundamental types of change. Setting these developments in the theological context that gave rise to the question draws attention to their understandings of the sacraments and their purpose, as well as to their understandings of the nature and destiny of human beings.
Adams concludes that their philosophical modifications were mostly not ad hoc, but systematic revisions that made room for transubstantiation while allowing Aristotle still to describe what normally and naturally happens. By contrast, their picture of the world as it will be
(after the last judgment) seems less well integrated with their sacramental theology and their understandings of human nature.Readership: Students and scholars of medieval philosophy; of eucharistic theology; of Thomas Aquinas, Gilles of Rome, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham
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Marilyn McCord Adams, Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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"There are few books that are as careful in its detail and as cosmic in its scope as Adams's Some Later Medieval Theories of the Eucharist: Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham. I heartily recommend it to anyone interested in understanding the nature of Christ's presence among us." - David Efird, Mind
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Prologue
Introduction
1: Aristotelian Preliminaries
I: Why Sacraments?
2: What, Why, and Wherefore
3: Sacramental Causality: 'Effecting What They Figure!'
II: The Metaphysics and Physics of Real Presence
4: Explaining the Presence, Identifying the Change: Aquinas and Giles of Rome
5: Duns Scotus on Placement Problems
6: Duns Scotus on Two Types of Transsubstantiation
7: Remodelling with Ockham
8: Accidents without Substance: Aquinas and Gilles of Rome
9: Independent Accidents: Scotus and Ockham
10: Theology Provoking Philosophy
III: What Sort of Union?
11: Eucharistic Eating and Drinking
12: Sacraments, Why Ceasing?
Post-Script
List of Numbered Propositions
Bibliography
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