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The importance of the Summa theologiae on late scholasticism

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Thomas Aquinas’ Summa theologiae is one of the classics in the history of theology and philosophy. Beyond its influence in the Middle Ages, its importance is also borne out by the fact that it became the subject of commentary. During the sixteenth century it was gradually adopted as the official text for the teaching of scholastic theology in most European Catholic universities. As a result, university professors throughout Europe and the colonial Americas started lecturing and producing commentaries on the Summa and using it as a starting point for many theological and philosophical discussions. Some of the works of major authors such as Vitoria, Soto, Molina, Suárez and Arriaga are for all intents and purposes commentaries on the Summa. This book is the first scholarly endeavour to investigate this commentary tradition. As it examines late scholasticism against its institutional backdrop and contains studies of unpublished manuscripts and texts, it will remain an authoritative source for the research of late scholasticism.

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Thomas Aquinas’ Summa theologiae is one of the classics in the history of theology and philosophy. Beyond its influence in the Middle Ages, its importance is also borne out by the fact that it became the subject of commentary. During the sixteenth century it was gradually adopted as the official text for the teaching of scholastic theology in most European Catholic universities. As a result, university professors throughout Europe and the colonial Americas started lecturing and producing commentaries on the Summa and using it as a starting point for many theological and philosophical discussions. Some of the works of major authors such as Vitoria, Soto, Molina, Suárez and Arriaga are for all intents and purposes commentaries on the Summa. This book is the first scholarly endeavour to investigate this commentary tradition. As it examines late scholasticism against its institutional backdrop and contains studies of unpublished manuscripts and texts, it will remain an authoritative source for the research of late scholasticism.

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Lidia Lanza is a research fellow at the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon. Marco Toste is affiliated with the University of Fribourg.

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Part 1: Framing the commentary tradition 1.The Commentary Tradition on the ‘Summa Theologiae’ Lidia Lanza – Marco Toste 2. Thomas Aquinas as Authority and the ‘Summa Theologiae’ as Auctoritas in the Late Middle Ages Monica Brinzei – Chris Schabel 3.The Genesis of a Genre? Late Medieval Commentaries on the ‘Summa Theologiae’ Ueli Zahnd 4.Theology in ‘via sancti Thomae’ at the University of Padua and the ‘Summa Theologiae’ Matthew Gaetano Part 2: Discussions in the commentary tradition 5.Remarks on the Debate on ‘Summa Theologiae’ I, q. 2, art. 2 in 17th-Century Dominican Theology Igor Agostini 6.The Proofs of God’s Existence: The Discussion of the Value of the ‘Five Ways’ in the 16th-Century Iberian Commentaries on the ‘Summa Theologiae’ Mauro Mantovani 7.The Light of Glory in Molina, Vázquez, and Suárez William Duba 8.Creation and Subsistence: Early Modern Commentators on the Subsistence of Prime Matter Helen Hattab 9.Ways of Angelic Location: 16th-Century Dominican Summistae on ‘Summa Theologiae’ I, q. 52, art. 1 Daniel D. Novotny – Tomaš Machula 10.From Invincible Ignorance to Tolerance: Arriaga, Vázquez, and Bayle Jean-Luc Solere 11.The Approach of Some Major Commentators on ‘Summa Theologiae’ II-II, q. 10: ‘De Infidelitate’ Andreas Wagner 12.Between Self-Preservation and Self-Sacrifice: The Debate in 16th-Century Scholasticism Marco Toste 13.“Si peccavit per hoc quod fregit ostium, páguelo!”: The Debate on Whether the Prisoner Condemned to Death Can Lawfully Escape in the 16th-Century Commentary Tradition on the ‘Summa Theologiae’ Lidia Lanza Indices Index of Manuscripts 427 Index of Names ( –19th Century) Index of Names (19th Century– )

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