Durandus of St Pourcain: A Dominican Theologian in the Shadow of Aquinas

by Isabel Iribarren

Overview

The fourteenth-century controversy between the Dominican Durandus of St Pourçain and his order plays a central role in explaining the later success of Thomism. Durandus's independent approach earned him two censures from Dominican authorities, as he appeared to jeopardize the order's sense of doctrinal identity. Through a close examination of the relevant theological issues, this book follows the course of the controversy to reveal the significant role which Franciscan theology played in the Dominican interpretation of Aquinas. This challenges the commonplace portrayal of early Thomists as a homogenous group, as it reveals the Franciscan contribution to the shaping of a Dominican intellectual tradition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199282319
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/08/2005
Series:	Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Isabel Iribarren is Junior Research Fellow in Theology, St John's College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

I. The doctrinal and philosophical background1. Prolegomena: the Fourth Lateran Council and its tradition2. Aquinas on the Trinity3. Varieties of distinctionII. The controversy4. Hervaeus Natalis's commentary on the Sentences5. The ‘opinio singularis': the first recension of Durandus of St Pourcain's commentary on the Sentences6. Hervaeus's quodlibetal disputations7. Durandus's response: the Paris Quodlibets8. The censure9. The aftermath of the censure10. The corrective11. The second censure and the ‘Thomist turn'12. The final recension of Durandus's commentaryConclusion: Durandus's enlightened conservatism