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Introducing Medieval Biblical Interpretation: The Senses of Scripture in Premodern Exegesis is unavailable, but you can change that!

Does medieval hermeneutics have continuing relevance in an age dominated by the historical-critical method? Ian Christopher Levy asserts that it does. Levy shows that we must affirm both the irreversible advances made by the historical-critical method and the church’s lasting commitment to the deeper spiritual senses beyond the immediate historical circumstances of the text. In Introducing...

to become through grace what God is by nature (homo ex gratia quod Deus ex natura).99 What comes through so powerfully in this work is, as one scholar has observed, William’s conception of love as a gift; in humbling himself, the person thus receives the love that God graciously bestows.100 William, like Bernard, also wrote an Exposition of the Song of Songs, even if one not so long. Still, it is a marvelous work, redolent of Cistercian affective piety.101 William begins with a prayer of wondrous
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