Roger Bacon on the nature and place of Angels

Vivarium

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 266-282

  Long, R James ^a  

^a FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84905318223     PISSN: 00427543     EISSN: 15685349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568534972662501     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Denzinger-Schonmetzer, Enchiridion Symbolorum 1963, n. 125
2. The 4th Lateran Council, which added that God was the creator of all things visible and invisible, spiritual and corporeal, who by his almighty power together (simul) from the beginning of time formed out of nothing the spiritual creature and the corporeal creature, that is, that angelic and the terrestrial" (Denzinger, n. 800).
3. All later pronouncements have simply been reaffirmations of Nicea and 4th Lateran.
4. Historians of philosophy refer to this teaching more commonly as "universal hylo-morphism." Though dated, the only monograph on the subject remains the dissertation of Erich Kleineidam, Das Problem der hylomorphen ^usammensetzung der geistigen Substanzen im 13.
5. O. Lottin, La composition hylemorphique des substances spirituelles; les debuts de la controverse, in: RNSP, 34 (1932), 21-41.
6. Angels and Pinheads: The Contributions of the Early Oxford Masters to the Doctrine of Spiritual Matter, in: Gordon A. Wilson (ed.), Franciscan Masters and Their Texts, St. Bonaventure, NY 1998, [in press].
7. Marcia Colish, Early Scholastic Angelology, in: Recherches de Theologie ancienne et medievale, 62 (1995), 106-9.
8. Theodore Crowley, Roger Bacon. The Problem of the Soul in his Philosophical Commentaries, Louvain 1950, 81-91.
9. Odo Rigaldus, Franciscan master of theology at Paris during Bacon's tenure there as Arts master; text in Odon Lottin, La simplicite de Vame humaine avant saint Thomas d'Aquin, in: Id., Psychologie et Morale aux XIP et XIIP sticks, Gembloux 1957, I, 449.
10. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, 1.53.1c. D.E. Sharp, Franciscan Philosophy at Oxford, New York 1964, 205.
11. John Van Engen (ed.), Learning Institutionalized: Teaching in the Medieval University, Notre Dame [in press].
12. David C. Lindberg, The Science of Optics, in: D. Lindberg (ed.), Science in the Middle Ages, Chicago 1978, 353.
13. Hackett, "Scientia Experimentalist: From Robert Grosseteste to Roger Bacon, in: James McEvoy (ed.), Robert Grosseteste: New Perspectives on his Thought and Scholarship, Steenbrugh 1994, 117-8.
14. For an excellent discussion of Scotus' position and the new physics that informs it see Helen Lang's chapter Duns Scotus: Putting Angels in Their Place, in: Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties, Albany 1992, 173-87.
15. C. Jean-Pierre Torrell, Saint Thomas Aquinas, vol. I: The Person and his Work, tr. Robert Royal, Washington D.C. 1996, 324.