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Thank you, Otfried, for such a thorough response! These sources once again confirm that the resurrection was not lost to medieval theologians, spiritual writers and artists even when the passion and death of Jesus seems to be their center focus. I wonder how much the common folk heard about the resurrection in medieval sermons (which I am working on now) and in funeral sermons. Does anyone on the list work on funeral sermons? If so, how much would they have heard the "good news" of the resurrection message?
Steve
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>How old are the "four endowments" as such? What late antique or earlier
>medieval theologians
>have a scheme of four attributes for the "resurrection body"? Or of three
>attributes or of five?
Dear John,
I am not sure about the origins of this concept the quatuor dotes corporis, but
it may be slightly older than the death of St. Francis and may even go back to
Hugh of St. Victor, in any case it is certainly widespread in Franciscan authors
like John Pecham (_Quaestiones de beatitudine animae et corporis_ I, 36:
"Resurgent igitur corpora nostra incorruptibilia, immo impassibilia contra
dolorem, agilia contra laborem, subtilia contra terrestrietatem, clara contra
opacitatem. Ecce hae sunt quattuor dotes corporis gloriosi"), Grosseteste (_De
dotibus_ cap. 2: "In ueteri enim / testamento in libro Sap 3º dicitur: Fulgebunt
justi et tanquam scintille et cetera. In eo quod ait "fulgebunt" notatur
claritas. In eo quod ait "justi", inpassibilitas in corpore ex qua est
inpassibilitas in anima. Ipsa enim est ordinacio triplex sicud docet augustinus
ex qua uenit inpassibilitas. Unde Sap 1º: Iusticia perpetua est et inmortalis,
et hec est causa inpassibilitatis in corpore. In eo quod ait "tanquam
scintille"" notatur subtilitas, Eccli 42: Quam desiderabilia opera eius et
tanquam / scintille et cetera. In eo quod ait "discurent" notatur agilitas",
available online at
http://www.kennydominican.joyeurs.com/LatinPatrology/Grosseteste/DeDotibus.htm),
Bonaventura (_Comm. in evang. Luc._ cap. IX, par. 51: "Hanc autem _claritatis_
dotem ad tempus Christus assumsit [i.e. in transfiguratione], sicut dicitur de
_subtilitate_, quam assumsit in nativitate, cum clauso utero matris exivit;
_agilitatem_, cum super aquas ambulavit; _impassibilitatem_, cum corpus in
Sacramento discipulis tradidit", = Opera t. VII, p. 233a, PDF available at
http://standish.stanford.edu/bin/object?00000800), and many others.
As regards the Domincans, Thomas has discussed it frequently in his commentary
on the Sentences (_In III Sententiarum_ dist. 16, qu. 2, art. 2, see
http://www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/DE/uv.htm; _IV Sent._ dist. 49, qu. 4,
art. 5, see http://www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/de/zg.htm), and elsewhere,
it is in Ps-Albertus Magnus, _Compendium theologiae veritatis_, lib. VII, cap.
27-28 (ed. Borgnet, Opera t. XXXIV, p. 256ff., see
http://www.archive.org/details/balbertimagnira00chgoog), Vincentius
Bellovacensis has covered it in his _Speculum morale_ (ed. Douais col. 844ss.),
and it seems to have been common lore in late medieval and early modern times,
when it became part of the _Catechismus Romanus_ I, xii, 9 (I am quoting this
one only from second hand!)
For the history and development of this concept I have been referred to (but
have not looked up myself) Nikolaus Wicki, _Die Lehre von der himmlischen
Seligkeit in der mittelalterlichen Scholastik von Petrus Lombardus bis Thomas
von Aquin_, Fribourg (Suisse): Universitäts-Verlag, 1954 (= Studia Friburgensia,
N.F., 9), p. 202-237.
Kind regards, with my best wishes for the New Year, to you and all memebers of
this list!
Otfried Lieberknecht
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D-40477 Düsseldorf
Tel. +49 (0)172 407 6073
www.lieberknecht.de
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