Semiotic Theory and Sacramentality in Hugh of Saint Victor

ISBN-13: 9780367784485 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 246 str.

Ruben Angelici

Opis

This book offers Hugh of Saint Victor’s early scholastic thoughts on sacrament in order to re-discover the pre-modern theological understanding of ontological signification.

Spis treści

Introduction

1 Pedagogy, Lectio, and Vera Philosophia

2 The Signification of The Sign: Creation And Incarnation

3 The Christ-Centred Opus Restaurationis

4 The Berengarian Controversy and Sign-Theory

5 The Realist Character of Hugh of Saint Victor’s Mystical Sacramentality

6 Sacramentality, Signification, and Poiesis

Conclusion

O autorze

Ruben Angelici is a graduate of the University of Cambridge. He is a priest in England and holds degrees and expertise in theology, philosophy, biology, and music. He is a member of the Internationale Gesellschaft für Theologische Mediävistik, and has been a sessional lecturer in Theology and Church History at University of Manchester, Nazarene Theological College, UK. His areas of academic interests include philosophical and sacramental theology, scholastic theology and philosophy (particularly the XII century and the school of Saint Victor), the Nouvelle Théologie, semiotics, post-structuralism, and the philosophy of language. This is his second book on Victorine, philosophical theology.