By G. R. Evans
This learn seems to be on the assumptions during which scholars of the Bible within the West approached their examining, from Augustine to the tip of the 12th century, while new talents in grammar and good judgment made it attainable to enhance extra subtle severe equipment and to use clean instruments to the duty.
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13 Within the brief compass of his 'Epitome', Hugh shows how the whole of philosophy may be seen as a way by which the student may gradually come to understand the highest truths of theologia, the topmost branch of theoria. Thus he brings philosophy firmly within the span of the proper studies of a Christian. In his third century commentary on the Song of Songs, the Alexandrian Origen refers to a tradition which makes a connection between branches of philosophy and the writings of Solomon. In Proverbs it is as though a Father speaks to a beloved son, and that is like ethics; in Ecclesiastes it is as though the words were addressed to a grown man, and that is like physics; in the Song of Songs the reader is a fully-developed human soul, and the subject is theologia.
Rupert was exceptional in his range and in both the grandness and the minute brilliance of his evocation of the Bible's images, but he stands Downloaded from University Publishing Online. 251 on Fri Jan 27 11:56:52 GMT 2012. 004 The monastic way 17 squarely within a tradition of patristic and monastic exegesis which underlies all the new work of twelfth century scholars with which we shall be concerned. Rupert of Deutz and Anselm of Canterbury represent two extremes which show how broad a range monastic scholarship covered.
It was Hugh of St Victor's view, as it was Rupert of Deutz's, that the arts which make up philosophy are simply theology's handmaids. Downloaded from University Publishing Online. 251 on Fri Jan 27 11:56:50 GMT 2012. 005 Bible study in the schools 33 Anselm of Canterbury saw no need even to comment on the matter, so obvious to him was it that clear reasoning could only help men to sound faith. But the use of the artes was by no means so uncontroversial for everyone. For many there was a tension between the artes as taught by ancient pagan thinkers and the Christian education which formed a preliminary to the study of the Bible.