Paul Tillinghast wrote:
>You're familiar already with the Irish concept of the 4 kinds of truth
>(Literal, allegorical, tropological, anagogical? It prob. goes back to
>St. Augustine, & for all I knew before that. But to say something was >'true
in the middle ages' was a little more complex than we think of it >today.
Irish?
A convenient summary of the history of this essential and pervasive way
of looking at "Truth", especially as a means of discovering the "true" meaning
of a sacred text, may be found in English in Berryl Smalley's
_The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages_ (still in print); and, in French,
in the exhaustive, four volume, study by Henri de Lubac, _L'Exegese medievale_
(assuming that I'm remembering the title correctly).
It's been quite a while, but I believe that these two are still "operative"
and unsurpassed on this topic. (I'd appreciate hearing otherwise.)
Best to all from here,
Christopher
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