The Position of Selected English Dominicans Towards the Immaculate Conception in the Pre-tridentine Era
Paweł Beyga
Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Wroclaw , Polandhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0838-9482
Abstract
The Immaculate Conception of the Mother of Christ is a truth of the Catholic faith that was only dogmatised by Pius IX in 1854. Until then, there had been debate among theologians regarding this Marian privilege. By means of selected examples the article shows the attitude of English Dominicans to the Immaculate Conception of Mary between the 13th and 16th centuries. It transpires that the members of the Order of Preachers in the British Isles presented an extremely diverse positions. One can find both strongly dissenting positions and those manifestly in favour of the Immaculate Conception. It is extremely interesting to note that in their arguments for the Immaculate Conception, some Dominicans distanced themselves from the continental theology represented by Aquinas. The way the Dominicans conceptualised the Immaculate Conception was closer to that represented by the twelfth-century theologian and historian Eadmer.
Keywords:
Mary, Order of Preachers, Immaculate Conception, England, Middle Ages, theologyReferences
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Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Wroclaw
Paweł Beyga, doktor nauk teologicznych (teologia systematyczna) Papieskiego Wydziału Teologicznego we Wrocławiu. Wybrane publikacje: Tradycja anglikańska w mszale dla Ordynariatów Personalnych byłych anglikanów, Opole 2018; Prayer towards the East in the thought of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI. The twentieth anniversary of The Spirit of the Liturgy, „Mitteilungen Institut Papst Benedikt XVI” 13 (2020), s. 59-67; Benedykta XVI modlitwa za Żydów w dawnej wielkopiątkowej modlitwie powszechnej – implikacje dla dialogu międzyreligijnego, „Studia Oecumenica” 21 (2021), s. 195- 209. Zainteresowania naukowe: liturgia, ekumenizm, dialog międzyreligijny.
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