ON RESURRECTION
Translated by
IRVEN M. RESNICK
and
FRANKLIN T. HARKINS
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
Washington, D.C.
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
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ISBN 978-0-8132-3307-9
THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH
MEDIAEVAL CONTINUATION
VOLUME 20
THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH
MEDIAEVAL CONTINUATION
EDITORIAL BOARD
Gregory F. LaNave
Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception
Dominican House of Studies
Editorial Director
Regis J. Armstrong, O.F.M. Cap.
The Catholic University of America
Peter Casarella
University of Notre Dame
John Cavadini
University of Notre Dame
Joseph Goering
University of Toronto
Frank A. C. Mantello
The Catholic University of America
Jan Ziolkowski
Harvard University
Trevor Lipscombe
Director
The Catholic University of America Press
Carole Monica C. Burnett
Staff Editor
I. On Resurrection in Scholastic Context
II. Structure and Significant Themes
III. Sources and Subsequent Influence
General Abbreviations
CCCA Corpus Commentariorum Averrois in Aristotelem. Versionum Latinarum.
CCSL Corpus Christianorum Series Latina
ch. chapter
col(s). column(s)
CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
Ep. Epistula
FOTC The Fathers of the Church
FOTC MC The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation
Glossa ord. Glossa ordinaria (Biblia Latina cum Glossa ordinaria: Facsimile Reprint of the Editio Princeps Adolph Rusch of Strassburg 1480/81)
Hom. homilia
l(l). line(s)
LCL Loeb Classical Library
PG Patrologia Cursus Completus. Series Graeca. Ed. Migne, 1857–66
PL Patrologia Cursus Completus. Series Latina. Ed. Migne, 1844–1864
vol(s). volume(s)
Vulg. Vulgate
Abbreviations for Authors and Texts
Alb. Albertus Magnus
Anal. Prior. Analytica priora (ed. Borgnet, vol. 1: 459–809)
De anima De anima (ed. Colon. 7/1: 1–284)
De animal. De animalibus (reference by book, tractate, chapter, and number; Stadler, 1916–20)
De bono De bono (ed. Colon. 28: 1–329)
De caelo et mundo De caelo et mundo (ed. Colon. 5/1: 1–341)
De causis et proc. De causis et processu universitatis a prima causa (ed. Colon. 17/2: 1–348)
De causis propr. elem. De causis proprietatum elementorum (ed. Colon. 5/2: 49–106)
De gen. et corr. De generatione et corruptione (ed. Colon. 5/2: 109–219)
De IV coaequ. De IV coaequaevis (ed. Borgnet, vol. 34: 307–789)
De homine De homine (cited according to quaestiones in ed. Borgnet 35, and with page numbers to ed. Colon. 27/2)
De Incarn. De Incarnatione (ed. Colon. 26: 171–235)
De mul. forti De muliere forti (ed. Borgnet, vol. 18: 1–242)
De nat. et orig. an. De natura et origine animae (ed. Colon. 12: 1–46)
De nat. loc. De natura loci (ed. Colon. 5/2: 1–282)
De nutrimento et nutr. De nutrimento ...
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About On ResurrectionAccording to 1 Cor 15.44 and 1 Cor 15.52, the human body “is sown an animal body, [but] it will rise a spiritual body” and “the dead will rise again incorruptible, and we will be changed.” These passages prompted many questions: What is a spiritual body? How can a body become incorruptible? Where will the resurrected body be located? And, what will be the nature of its experience? Medieval theologians sought to answer such questions but encountered troubling paradoxes stemming from the conviction that the resurrected body will be an “impassible body” or constituted from “incorruptible matter.” By the thirteenth century the resurrection demanded increased attention from Church authorities, not only in response to certain popular heresies but also to calm heated debates at the University of Paris. William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris, officially condemned ten errors in 1241 and in 1244, including the proposition that the blessed in the resurrected body will not see the divine essence. In 1270 Parisian Bishop Étienne Tempier condemned the view that God cannot grant incorruption to a corruptible body, and in 1277 he rejected propositions that a resurrected body does not return as numerically one and the same, and that God cannot grant perpetual existence to a mutable, corruptible body. The Dominican scholar Albert the Great was drawn into the university debates in Paris in the 1240s and responded in the text translated here for the first time. In it, Albert considers the properties of resurrected bodies in relation to Aristotelian physics, treats the condition of souls and bodies in heaven, discusses the location and punishments of hell, purgatory, and limbo, and proposes a “limbo of infants” for unbaptized children. Albert’s On Resurrection not only shaped the understanding of Thomas Aquinas but also that of many other major thinkers. |
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