This book represents the first comprehensive study of the role of historia in the processes of reading and restoration (or salvation) in the theology of Hugh of St Victor. By providing a close reading of HughÂ?s major works, it affords a window onto the holistic vision of liberal arts education, scriptural exegesis, moral formation, and spirituality that attracted young students to the Parisian School of St Victor in the early twelfth century. HughÂ?s teaching on memory-training and his view of the liberal arts as roads leading the reader toward God have the aim of preparing students for scriptural reading and its three subdisciplines - historia, allegory, and tropology. This pedagogical program both draws on and diverges from the thought of Augustine. For Hugh, the fallen human being begins to be restored to the image of God through a program of ordered reading in the liberal arts and Sacred Scripture; this restoration continues at the fundamental level of historia even as the student advances through readingÂ?s higher disciplines. In responding to and concretizing the moral teaching found in the scriptural text, the reader comes to participate in the ongoing history of salvation.
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Table of Contents
- Université de Montréal 7
- Contents du roman cohabitation de récits profanes et de textes sacrés dans trois recueils v 7
- Université de Montréal 9
- Abbreviations du roman cohabitation de récits profanes et de textes sacrés dans trois recueils v 9
- Université de Montréal 11
- Acknowledgments du roman cohabitation de récits profanes et de textes sacrés dans trois recueils v 11
- University of Toronto 13
- Introduction 13
- Universität Regensburg 25
- Memory History and Visualization Laying the Foundation of Hughs Pedagogical Program 25
- Mnemotechnique and History in the Chronicon 26
- Memory as Introspective Philosophy in Augustine 53
- Visualizing the Ark of Noah Beginning to Build the Ark of Wisdom 76
- Universität Regensburg 85
- Reading in the Liberal Arts Beginning to Restore the Created Order 85
- Original Order Creation of Humankind in the Image of God 86
- From Order to Disorder The Fall and Its Effects 112
- Restoration by Reading Re-ordering Humankinds Knowing and Loving 124
- Universität Regensburg 149
- Sacred Scripture and the Foundation of History 149
- The Distinctiveness of Sacred Scripture 153
- Augustine on Scriptures Twofold Signification 162
- Ordered Scriptural Reading and Restoration 171
- History as the Foundation Fundamentum 183
- Hugh in Context The Sensus Litteralis in the Twelfth Century 199
- Universität Regensburg 209
- Allegory Erecting the Edifice of Faith on Successive Sacraments throughout History 209
- Erecting the Allegorical Edifice on the Sacraments of Faith 210
- World History as the Context for Human Restoration 221
- Successive Sacraments throughout History 232
- One Faith Three Kinds of Faithful 252
- Universität Regensburg 266
- Tropology Living the Love Signified in Scripture 266
- Hughs Theoretical Teaching 267
- Hughs Practical Teaching 288
- Reader Response and Spiritual Transformation 302
- Universität Regensburg 309
- Conclusion 309
- Universität Regensburg 313
- Bibliography 313
- Primary Works 313
- Secondary Works 319
- Index of Scriptural Citations 337
- General Index 339