The Status of Eucharistic Accidents "sine subiecto": An Historical Survey up to Thomas Aquinas and Selected Reactions (Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte ... – Neue Folge 20) (German Edition)

If, at the moment of the Eucharistic consecration, solely the accidents remain – as our senses testify – the question inevitably arises: Is it possible for an accident to exist and at the same time not inhere in a subject? This study addresses that question and traces the development of the discussions surrounding the status of Eucharistic accidents that exist without a subject. It covers the period in the Middle Ages up to Thomas Aquinas and examines selected reactions from the first generation of thinkers after Aquinas. It identifies the fundamental philosophical concerns of these authors, their principal insights and conclusions, partly based on hitherto unpublished texts. The entire debate centers on the need to safeguard divine omnipotence; for even God cannot make contradictories, such as accidents existing without a subject, true. On several occasions Thomas Aquinas expressed his concern that the faith, when shown to be false or impossible, would be held up to the ridicule of non-believers. The rise of ‘radical Aristotelianism’ urged Aquinas and his contemporaries to defend philosophically the possibility of accidents existing sine subiecto. Starting with Berengar of Tours, this study provides a detailed chronological account of the debate in the various 12th century ‘schools’ and in the early Summae. The most important authors prior to Thomas Aquinas are treated extensively, with a particular emphasis on the authenticity of the treatise De corpore Domini, attributed to Albertus Magnus. The analysis of Aquinas’ key texts on the question is carried out in relation to the whole of his thought and its reception by Peter of Tarentasia, Hannibaldus de Hannibaldis and Adenulf of Anagnia. The final part of this study considers the criticism by the Parisian members of the Faculty of Arts: Dietrich of Freiberg, Godfrey of Fontaines, Giles of Rome, John of Paris, John of Sterngassen and HervaeusNatalis. Lengthy attention is also devoted to the famous anonymous Commentary on the Sentences, contained in Ms. 491 of the city library of Bruges (Belgium). Herausgegeben von Elias H. Füllenbach OP (federführender Herausgeber), Ulrich Engel OP, Paul Dominikus Hellmeier OP, Ulrich Horst OP und Klaus-Bernward Springer.

Mit neuen Methoden und Fragestellungen ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Erforschung der Geschichte der Bettelorden vorangetrieben und ihre über die engere Ordens- und Kirchengeschichte hinausgehende Bedeutung für Politik-, Wirtschafts- und Sozial-, für Bildungs- und Geistesgeschichte herausgearbeitet worden.
Zur Intensivierung und Koordinierung der sie berührenden Forschungen gibt die deutsche Dominikanerprovinz Teutonia die Reihe "Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Dominikanerordens. Neue Folge" heraus.
Auch in der Neuen Folge wird die Geschichte der Dominikaner im deutschen Sprachraum den Schwerpunkt bilden. Es werden auch wichtige Untersuchungen zur Ordensverfassung und Frömmigkeit, zur Philosophie und Theologie aufgenommen, die für den Dominikanerorden im Untersuchungsraum Verbindlichkeit oder Bedeutsamkeit hatten, selbst wenn die untersuchte Thematik ihrer Entstehung nach nicht speziell mit den deutschen Dominikanern und Dominikanerinnen zu tun hatte.
Der Begriff Dominikanerorden wird in einem weiten Sinn verstanden. Alle Gemeinschaften, die nach rechtlicher Verfassung oder geistlicher Ausrichtung mit den Dominikanern zu tun hatten, werden ihm subsumiert: der Predigerorden, die dominikanischen Frauenklöster und -gemeinschaften, die losen Verbände der Dritten Orden sowie die verschiedenen Bruderschaften.
Dem Zeitraum nach ist Forschungsgegenstand die Geschichte des Dominikanerordens von den Anfängen bis in die unmittelbare Vergangenheit. Dabei ist auch gedacht an die Aufarbeitung von Entstehen und Geschichte der verschiedenen dominikanischen Frauengemeinschaften des 19. Jahrhunderts, die mit ihren religiösen und sozialen Aktivitäten in der sich rasch wandelnden Gesellschaft eine bedeutende, bisher meist unterschätzte Rolle spielten.

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If, at the moment of the Eucharistic consecration, solely the accidents remain - as our senses testify - the question inevitably arises: Is it possible for an accident to exist and at the same time not inhere in a subject? This study addresses that question and traces the development of the discussions surrounding the status of Eucharistic accidents that exist without a subject. It covers the period in the Middle Ages up to Thomas Aquinas and examines selected reactions from the first generation of thinkers after Aquinas. It identifies the fundamental philosophical concerns of these authors, their principal insights and conclusions, partly based on hitherto unpublished texts. The entire debate centers on the need to safeguard divine omnipotence; for even God cannot make contradictories, such as accidents existing without a subject, true. On several occasions Thomas Aquinas expressed his concern that the faith, when shown to be false or impossible, would be held up to the ridicule of non-believers. The rise of 'radical Aristotelianism' urged Aquinas and his contemporaries to defend philosophically the possibility of accidents existing sine subiecto. The study provides a chronological account of the debate in the 12th century 'schools' and in the early Summae. The most important authors prior to Thomas Aquinas are treated extensively. The analysis of Aquinas' texts on the question is carried out in relation to the whole of his thought and its reception by Peter of Tarentasia, Hannibaldus de Hannibaldis and Adenulf of Anagnia. The final part of the study considers the criticism by the Parisian members of the Faculty of Arts: Dietrich of Freiberg, Godfrey of Fontaines, Giles of Rome, John of Paris, John of Sterngassen and HervaeusNatalis. Lengthy attention is also devoted to the anonymous Commentary on the Sentences, contained in Ms. 491 of the city library of Bruges If, at the moment of the Eucharistic consecration, solely the accidents remain - as our senses testify - the question inevitably arises: Is it possible for an accident to exist and at the same time not inhere in a subject? This study addresses that question and traces the development of the discussions surrounding the status of Eucharistic accidents that exist without a subject. It covers the period in the Middle Ages up to Thomas Aquinas and examines selected reactions from the first generation of thinkers after Aquinas. It identifies the fundamental philosophical concerns of these authors, their principal insights and conclusions, partly based on hitherto unpublished texts. This dissertation was awarded the 2011 St. Thomas Aquinas Dissertation Prize by the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University (Ave Maria, Florida)