IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 1203: Written Inside and Outside, II: Tradition, Exegesis, and Theology
Wednesday 9 July 2008, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Ineke van 't Spijker, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Eva de Visscher, Oriel College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1203-a | Le souverain dans l'exégèse carolingienne (Language: Français) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Political Thought, Theology |
| Paper 1203-b | The Sentences of Anselm of Laon, between Exegesis and Theology (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Theology |
| Paper 1203-c | 'Et uidi librum scriptum intus et foris': Aspects on Interpretational Strategies in the Glossa ordinaria on the Bible (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Theology |
| Abstract | This session explores the use made by Carolingian exegetes, especially Raban Maur, of the patristic exegesis, for the sake of a 'politial theology' relevant for their own time, in which an ideal of kingship is constructed which combines worldly leadership and spiritual vocation; it then turns to the way in which 12th-century scholars, especially Anselm of Laon and Gilbert the Universal made use of the earlier tradition in the development of their interpretational strategies for the sake of their own original exegesis, and how in Anselm's work biblical commentary and theology were at the same time closely related and yet clearly distinguishable, the sentences representing an original form of teaching in the 12th-century schools and offering answers to practical and theological questions. |