TRINITY AND
CREATION
Hugh, Richard and Adam of St. Victor
Franklin T. Harkins and Frans van Liere (eds.)
Hugh, Richard and Adam
of St. Victor
PAPERBACK; 428 PAGES; 2011
ISBN: 978-1-56548-373-6
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New Series
Victorine Texts in Translation
Exegesis, Theology and Spirituality from the Abbey of St Victor
Grover Zinn, Editor-in-Chief; Hugh Feiss, O.S.B., Managing Editor
The Trinity and Creation are central themes in the theology of the Augustinian
Canons of the Abbey of St. Victor during the twelfth century, when it flourished.
In this volume, for the first time three of the most important Victorine theological
works are introduced in complete English translations. On the Three Days,
by Hugh of St. Victor (d. 1141), is a lyrical yet philosophical study of how
the power, wisdom, and goodness of God can be known from the things God has
made. Hugh’s lecture notes, Sentences on Divinity, show how divine ideas
(“primordial causes”) serve God in creation. One of the enduring
classics of Christian theology, On the Trinity, by Richard of St. Victor (d.
1173), analyzes the Trinity in terms of love. This volume also includes two
of Adam of St. Victor’s sequences in praise of the Trinity.
Some Reviews:
“The enormous productivity of the twelfth century canons of Paris’s
Abbey of Saint Victor had a tremendous influence on the great scholastic masters
of the thirteenth century like Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure. Their contemplative
spirituality, transmitted via the Low Countries, would also shape the Devotio
Moderna and beyond. How fortunate, then, that New City Press will provide
an English language series of translations of Victorine biblical exegesis,
speculative theology, liturgical works, and mystical texts. Like the householder
of the Gospel, the Victorines brought forth old things and new. We are the
beneficiaries of those present day scholars who make these nova et vetera
available to a wide audience in fresh reliable translation.”
Lawrence S. Cunningham
John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology, The University of Notre Dame
“The several translators
who have contributed to this volume are to be commended for their readable,
elegant, and yet basically literal interpretations of the rather difficult
Latin originals, and for their reliance on recent and standard critical editions
of the texts. The introductions provided with each text include detailed thematic
and historical information, and are meticulously documented. Similarly, each
translation is supplied with notes indicating parallel material in the Victorine
author’s writings or in related patristic and twelfth-century works.
Other aids to research include a ten-page table of abbreviations listing works
by the Victorine authors, other twelfth-century authors, and key patristic
sources, as well as a bibliography of primary and secondary works, and the
three indexes of Scripture references, references to works by other Victorine
writers, and subjects. Lastly, it is worth mentioning that the price of the
New City Press publication puts a good trade paperback within reach of students,
but the Brepols clothbound volume is recommended for purchase by academic
libraries, where heavy use can be expected.”
Wanda Zemler-Cizewski
Marquette University, Milwaukee
in Theological Studies
“Truly a proverbial
‘idea whose time has come,’ this volume makes accessible texts
teachers have long longed for students to master. The centerpiece is certainly
Richard’s On the Trinity, but surrounding it with related texts from
Hugh and polishing the collection with Adam’s creation-and-Trinity-celebrating
sequences was a stroke of genius.”
Dennis D. Martin
editor and translator of Carthusian Spirituality (Classics of Western Spirituality)
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