Robert Grosseteste on the Ten Commandments
Grosseteste's treatise on the Decalogue knew a considerable popularity in England up to the Reformation. Written probably in the last decade of his teaching career at Oxford (1225-1235) it bears a close relationship to his De Cessatione Legalium and his Expositio in Epistolam ad Galatas. All hi...
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1991
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Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale
Year: 1991, Volume: 58, Pages: 167-205 |
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| Summary: | Grosseteste's treatise on the Decalogue knew a considerable popularity in England up to the Reformation. Written probably in the last decade of his teaching career at Oxford (1225-1235) it bears a close relationship to his De Cessatione Legalium and his Expositio in Epistolam ad Galatas. All his sources are Latin (or Greek in translation), but he does once refer to the LXX. When composing he employed his own concordance of the Bible and Fathers. He wrote for a well-educated clerical public and with pastoral intent, and included numerous exempla for the use of preachers. The most notable doctrinal theme of the work is the development accorded to the Augustinian amor ordinatus; for Grosseteste, there is in truth only one commandment, and it can be reduced to a single word: love! Grosseteste makes much reference to the social structures of feudal society, both to reinforce all that he admired and to castigate abuses, especially of wealth and power. |
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| ISSN: | 2593-2896 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale
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