{"product_id":"the-beauty-of-the-trinity-a-reading-of-the-summa-halensis-hardcover","title":"The Beauty of the Trinity: A Reading of the Summa Halensis - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJustin Coyle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePhilipp Rosemann\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book Justin Shaun Coyle remembers the theology of beauty of the forgotten \u003ci\u003eSumma Halensis\u003c\/i\u003e, an early-thirteenth-century text written by Franciscan friars at the University of Paris. Many scholars vaunt the \u003ci\u003eSumma Halensis\u003c\/i\u003e--conceived but not drafted entirely by Alexander of Hales (d. 1245)--for its teaching on beauty and its influence on giants of the high scholastic idiom. But few read the text's teaching theologically--as a teaching about God. \u003ci\u003eThe Beauty of the Trinity: A Reading of the \u003c\/i\u003eSumma Halensis proposes an interpretation of the \u003ci\u003eSumma\u003c\/i\u003e's beauty--teaching as deeply and inexorably theological, even trinitarian. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book takes as its keystone a passage in which the \u003ci\u003eSumma Halensis \u003c\/i\u003eidentifies beauty with the \"sacred order of the divine persons.\" If beauty names a trinitarian structure rather than a divine attribute, then the text teaches beauty where it teaches trinity. So \u003ci\u003eThe Beauty of the Trinity \u003c\/i\u003etrawls the massive \u003ci\u003eSumma Halensis \u003c\/i\u003efor beauty across passages largely ignored by the literature. Taking seriously the \u003ci\u003eSumma\u003c\/i\u003e's own definition of beauty rather than imposing onto the text modernity's narrow aesthetic categories allows Coyle to identity beauty nearly everywhere across the text's pages: in its teaching on the transcendental determinations of being, on the trinity proper, on creation, on psychology, on grace. A medieval text must teach beauty that appreciates beauty theologically beyond the constricted and anachronistic boundaries that often limit study of medieval aesthetics. Readers of medieval theology and theological aesthetics both will find in \u003ci\u003eThe Beauty of the Trinity \u003c\/i\u003ea depiction of how an early scholastic \u003ci\u003esumma \u003c\/i\u003ethinks beauty according to the mystery of the trinity.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJustin Coyle (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJustin Shaun Coyle\u003c\/b\u003e (PhD, Boston College) is Associate Professor of Theology, Church History, and Philosophy and Associate Academic Dean at Mount Angel Seminary in St. Benedict, Oregon. He is a tonsured reader in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 03, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51784745910560,"sku":"9781531500030","price":94.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/43c4a2ef019eec4d48aecbe9d45f3005.webp?v=1780607511","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-beauty-of-the-trinity-a-reading-of-the-summa-halensis-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}