Theologizing Friendship. Nathan Sumner Lefler

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see the sections entitled: “Common Culture” and “Cautionary Paragraph ” from chapter 1 and “Conclusions, Challenges, Possible Avenues for Further Exploration” from chapter 4.

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      Differences between the More Experiential Approach of Monastic Theology and the More Conceptual Approach of Scholastic Theology

      Contemporary Scholarship

      In service of our comparison between the particular theological accounts of friendship given by St. Aelred of Rievaulx and St. Thomas Aquinas, a preliminary description of the relationship between monastic and scholastic theological approaches per se will provide the most helpful point of departure. In this preparatory chapter, our preeminent guide will be the great twentieth-century Benedictine scholar, Jean Leclercq. The conclusions of Leclercq’s extensive and profound researches will be supplemented principally by the work of R. W. Southern, Beryl Smalley, David Knowles and Ivan Illich.

      Common Culture

      In this dissertation, we will be very much concerned with a number of significant differences between monastic and scholastic theology. Precisely for this reason, we must heed attentively Leclercq’s salutary reminder concerning theology, along with the generally acknowledged evidence of broad cultural homogeneity spanning the lifetimes of Aelred and Thomas and the years in between.

      Differences between Monastic and Scholastic Theology

      Midway through his project of delineating a true “monastic theology,” Leclercq affirms “real continuity between the patristic age and the medieval monastic centuries, and between patristic culture and medieval culture.” He continues:


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