Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31192/np.20.3.2
The Reasons and the Convenience of the Incarnation in the Summa Halensis
Ivan Karlić
orcid.org/0000-0002-7550-0857
; University of Zagreb, Catholic Faculty of Theology, Zagreb, Croatia
Milan Gelo
orcid.org/0000-0003-4107-5298
; Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Faculty of Catholic Theology, Tübingen, Germany
Abstract
In the rich tradition of the Franciscan theology, we can find lots of interesting authors and not enough researched operas. Summa Halensis makes part of the initiate period of the Franciscan theology in which we can find the fundaments of the Franciscan theology school. First of the Franciscan theologians, including Alexander of Hales, observed christological subjects and themes in their work. In this work we will analyse and show his theological studies about the incarnation of the Son of God, or even better said: about the reasons of „Godbecoming-a-man“. First part of this work demonstrates christological subjects of the Summa Halensis, and the second part talks about the convenience of the Gods incarnation. In the third part of this work the authors are analysing the parts of the texts of the Summa connecting their theological argumentation. Incarnation, observed and understood as God’s initiative established on the freedom of God’s will and practised with his plan of the salvation is explained in the fourth chapter of this work. The aim and the purpose of this work is the research of the teaching of the Franciscan theologians who had their part in the writing of Summa Halensis about the incarnation with a special accent added to analysing the reasons of the „God-becoming-a-man“ and systematic approach and analysing their fundamental theological thesis (from Summa Halensis) about the reasons and the convenience of the Logos incarnation.
Keywords
Alexander of Hales; appropriateness (convenience) of the incarnation; franciscan christology; incarnation of the Son of God; Summa Halensis
Hrčak ID:
285741
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Publication date:
16.11.2022.
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