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Dear Karl-Heinz, Which text are you dealing with specifically? -- A number of vernacular texts make similar statements regarding the Holy Spirit -- The _Trudperter Hoheleid_, for example, indentifies the Holy Sprirt as being "like" the love in the song of songs. --Even in more "secular" texts like Wolfram von Eschenbach's _Parzival_ we find God identified as fidelity (got selbe ist diu triuwe) and as the true lover (der ware minnaere) -- I wonder if it might not be the case that the vernacular texts are communicating with eachother and the sermon tradition moreso than with the latin tradition? Stephen M. Carey Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Washington University in St. Louis Campus Box 1104 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130 On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Karl Heinz Witte wrote: > Commenting on a middle high german quaestio about love I would > be very grateful for a hint. > The author holds the thesis that the love by which reasonable > beeings love God or their neighbours is not just a habitus infusus > but the Holy Spirit himself. > That is of course the opinion of Petrus Lombardus, dist. 17. > Now I understand that all (?) teachers of the 13th century opposed > to this thesis. My text might be written 1330-1380. I suppose the > author was an Augustinian Hermit. I know the Commentaria in > Sententias by Gregor of Rimini, Hugolin de Orvieto Thomas de > Argenntino. They are all in opposition to the thesis that Love Holy > spirit is > I would appreciate any suggestion where to find further information. > Thanks in advance. > Dr. phil. Karl Heinz Witte > St.-Anna-Platz 1 > D-80538 München > Tel. +49 89 29161942 > Fax + 49 89 299518 > [log in to unmask] > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%