Theologizing Friendship. Nathan Sumner Lefler

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the point a step further, Southern contends that scholastic method per se was in fact

      In the monasteries, on the other hand, the notion and its application are entirely different. There, the florilegium was the organic fruit of spiritual reading:

      Though admittedly not so much itself a genre as an interpretive activity or tool, nevertheless exegesis is a specialized mode of writing, often embedded within wider contexts, though sometimes characterizing the whole of a particular work (most especially the commentary, but sometimes sermons as well). Differing significantly in style and application from the monastic to the scholastic milieu, it demands brief attention here.

      In her great work, The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, Beryl Smalley writes:

      Furthermore, the monastic theme of desire finds its biblical correlates first in the prophetic character of the Old Testament, in “desire for the Promised Land or desire for the Messiah,” then in the anticipation of eschatological fulfillment, as these desires get “interpreted spontaneously by the medieval monks as desire for Heaven and for Jesus contemplated in His glory.” As already noted, there is no comparable eschatological emphasis in the exegesis of the schools. Concerning scholastic exegesis generally, we cannot finally bypass Smalley’s authoritative censure:

      Dialectics

      In reaction to this mode of theological inquiry, the monks, with St. Bernard very much in the vanguard, came more and more to conceive of the monastery as


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