Course Description
The course will focus on Aquinas’ Eucharistic theology through a direct study of his Biblical commentaries and the Summa Theologiae. Selected references to other works of St. Thomas, such as Summa contra Gentiles, De articulis fidei et Ecclesiae sacramentis, and the Commentary on the Sentences will also be made. Dogmatic theology will represent the main standpoint of the study, but sufficient emphasis will also be reserved to the exegetical, liturgical and spiritual dimensions.
Bibliography
Several sections of the Corpus Thomisticum (will be indicated during the course).
B. BLANKENHORN, Bread from Heaven, CUA Press, Washington, D.C. 2021.
M. MCCORD ADAMS, Some later medieval theories of the Eucharist: Thomas Aquinas, Gilles of Rome, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham, University Press, Oxford 2010.
M. GAGLIARDI, Truth is a Synthesis, Catholic Dogmatic Theology, Emmaus Academic, Steubenville [OH] 2020, esp. chap. 11.
J. VIJGEN, The Status of Eucharistic Accidents “sine subiecto”. A Historical Survey up to Thomas Aquinas and Selected Reactions, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2013.