The Language and Logic of the Bible: The Road to Reformation

All the apparatus of learning in the earlier Middle Ages had the ultimate purpose - at least in principle - of making it possible to understand the Bible better. The fathers laid foundations on which their successors built for a thousand years and more and which helped to form and direct the princip...

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Author:Gillian Rosemary Evans
Published: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985
Total Pages:192
Format:Book
Topic:- Influence and Survival > The Middle Ages (430-1453) > General studies of the survival of Augustine in the Greek world and in western thought and schools > [Pensée médiévale (par sujet)] > [Exégèse]
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Summary:All the apparatus of learning in the earlier Middle Ages had the ultimate purpose - at least in principle - of making it possible to understand the Bible better. The fathers laid foundations on which their successors built for a thousand years and more and which helped to form and direct the principles of modern criticism. This study looks at the assumptions whithin which students of the Bible in the West approached their reading, from Augustine to the end of the twelfth century, when new skills in grammmar and logic made it possible to develop more refined critical methods and to apply fresh tools to the task.

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