Carolyn:
Walter Principe's work on christology still remains the standard in
medieval theology. You can check out his four volume work on the
theology of the Hypostatic Union in the thirteenth century, but the
first volume will give you a good survey of twelfth and early 13th
century views.
Walter H. Principe, _William of Auxerre's Theology of the Hypstatic
Union_ Studies and Texts, 7 (Toronto: PIMS, 1963), esp. pp. 64-
78.
Principe also wrote a very lucid summary of medieval christology in
the Dictionary of the Middle Ages.
I think you will need to indicate which views Jacques holds (it
sounds like the Subsistence-theory, but the Assumptus-theory is a
possibility). Very few were brave enough to advocate the third
opinion of the Habitus-theory, since it sounded like
appollinarianism. Mind you the problem with the Assumptus-
theory is that left you open to attacks of being a nestorian (when I
was recounting this issues to a patristic scholar a little while ago,
he commented that all this new terminology could have been
avoided if they had just read the fathers more carefully!).
On the sex issue, if I remember if it correctly, Thomas in the same
section suggests that the sex of Jesus was only accidental and
need not have *necessarily* been male. I remember Principe
showing this to me once, just to demonstrate that not all medieval
theology conforms to our preconceptions of what "traditional"
theology is.
This is never easy stuff to translate. Guilio Silano at Toronto is
currently preparing a translation of the Sentences. He said it was
easy sailing until he got to book iii, and then all comprehensibility
flew out the window!
Cheers
Jim
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