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On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Richard Copsey wrote: > >One of my favourite questions (which I had once planned to co-edit), is a > late >13th century quodlibetal question from Paris: 'if a priest dies, does > he have to >reordained if he comes back from the dead?' Hmm. Wes Craven's > Night of >the Living Priests.... :-) > > Such questions persisted well into living memory. I remember that, in 1970 > when I was being questioned during the diocesan examination before > ordination, one of the examiners, a somewhat elderly priest, asked me what > would have happened to the bread and wine if the apostles had celebrated > mass in between the crucifixion and the ascension! > I suspect that the more standard scholastic approach for asking these sorts of questions about the sacraments (rather than <sepulchral voice> the Priest that Would Not Die</sepulchral voice>) was that used by Thomas in the Summa. He has a series of quaestiones using Lazarus as his 'test case': what if Lazarus had been a priest? Would he have needed to be ordained a second time after he was raised from the dead? Et cetera, et cetera. Never a dull moment at St Jacques! Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 585-4594/ [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html => our theatre resource page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%