John Wyclif’s Principium Biblicum Revisited
Philosophy as a Necessary Condition for the Study of Theology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21407799 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Fidora (0000-0001-5163-0369, icrea – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Bellaterra Spain, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 288-317 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Vivarium (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-7543 • E-ISSN: 1568-5349 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15685349-06103002 |
| OpenAlex | W4387959508 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
John Wyclif’s principium biblicum , that is to say, his inception speech as a Master of Theology at Oxford, dating from 1372/1373, has received scant scholarly attention. Discovered and edited in the 1960s by Beryl Smalley, it has long been considered a typical representative of its genre. A closer look at Wyclif’s text in the light of current principia -scholarship, and in particular of Robert Grosseteste’s recently identified inception speech, shows, however, that Wyclif’s principium biblicum is all but traditional. Its far-reaching claims concerning the importance of a thorough philosophical training as a prerequisite for the study of the Bible, as well as for that of theology, make this principium stand out amongst medieval inception speeches
Art · Literature · Political science · Scholarship · Theology · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Law · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |