Cajetan's Biblical Commentaries: Motive and Method

ISBN-13: 9789004325067 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 302 str.

Michael O'Connor

Opis

Remembered as the official who failed to keep Luther in the Catholic fold, Tommaso de Vio, Cardinal Cajetan (1469-1534) was a multi-faceted figure whose significance extends beyond those days in Augsburg. In the 1520s, he embarked on a labour of biblical commentary that occupied the final decade of his life, producing over a million words of translation and commentary. Offering an overview of this remarkable body of work, Michael O Connor argues that Cajetan s motive was the renewal of Christian living (more Catholic Reform than Counter-Reformation ), and that his method was a bold and fresh hybrid of scholasticism and Renaissance humanism, correcting the Vulgate s errors and expounding the text almost exclusively according to the literal sense."