Durandus of St Pourcain A Dominican Theologian in the Shado of Aquinas [Hardcover]

The fourteenth-century controversy between the Dominican Durandus of St Pour?ain 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.

I. The doctrinal and philosophical background
1. Prolegomena: the Fourth Lateran Council and its tradition
2. Aquinas on the Trinity
3. Varieties of distinction
II. The controversy
4. Hervaeus Natalis's commentary on the Sentences
5. The `opinio singularis': the first recension of Durandus of St Pourcain's commentary on the Sentences
6. Hervaeus's quodlibetal disputations
7. Durandus's response: the Paris Quodlibets
8. The censure
9. The aftermath of the censure
10. The corrective
11. The second censure and the `Thomist turn'
12. The final recension of Durandus's commentary
Conclusion: Durandus's enlightened conservatism

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