John Wyclif’s Principium Biblicum Revisited: Philosophy as a Necessary Condition for the Study of Theology
John Wyclif’s principium biblicum, that is to say, his inception speech as a Master of Theology at Oxford, dating from 1372/1373, has received scant scholarly attention. Discovered and edited in the 1960s by Beryl Smalley, it has long been considered a typical representative of its genre. A closer l...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Vivarium
Year: 2023, Volume: 61, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 288-317 |
| Further subjects: | B
Augustine
B division of philosophy B Biblical Theology B Robert Grosseteste B John Wyclif B Medieval Exegesis B relation of philosophy and theology |
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| Summary: | John Wyclif’s principium biblicum, that is to say, his inception speech as a Master of Theology at Oxford, dating from 1372/1373, has received scant scholarly attention. Discovered and edited in the 1960s by Beryl Smalley, it has long been considered a typical representative of its genre. A closer look at Wyclif’s text in the light of current principia-scholarship, and in particular of Robert Grosseteste’s recently identified inception speech, shows, however, that Wyclif’s principium biblicum is all but traditional. Its far-reaching claims concerning the importance of a thorough philosophical training as a prerequisite for the study of the Bible, as well as for that of theology, make this principium stand out amongst medieval inception speeches. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5349 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Vivarium
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685349-06103002 |