tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post4603230341262903684..comments2024-03-12T04:14:16.271-05:00Comments on The Rad Trad: The Commentary of FortunatianusThe Rad Tradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00899289024837953345noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-60433556703367601542018-01-25T10:32:38.940-06:002018-01-25T10:32:38.940-06:00J.,
Greetings! Regarding the assertion that allego...J.,<br />Greetings! Regarding the assertion that allegorical interpretations became rare "arguably because of St. Thomas’s insistence on the primacy of the literal meaning": do you mean that the literal meaning of the words is not primary, in the sense of the first thing in the intellect? Or do you mean that St. Thomas held that other meanings were less important because not primary?<br /> <br />I admit I'm at a loss as to where to search out St. Thomas's teaching on the secondary importance of the allegorical or other non-literal interpretations of Scripture. His best-known explanation, in the Summa (I, q. 1, a. 10), seems to place the literal sense in the lowest (though still honored) rank. <br /> <br />I have to agree with The Rad Trad's implication that Higher Criticism has reduced so much of biblical commentary to wrangling over concrete, literal meanings: "Did the Temple exist? Did David exist?" and the like.Capreolushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07329413913112615954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-63837971343655467112018-01-21T20:37:32.818-06:002018-01-21T20:37:32.818-06:00Modern historical criticism, or at least its agnos...Modern historical criticism, or at least its agnostic 20th century form, has made the defenders of Sacred Scripture justifiably quick to affirm its historicity, which has perhaps made us lose sight of the fact that Scripture can be and is true on many levels: historical, allegoric, typological, and prophetic.The Rad Tradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00899289024837953345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-38842105320358755362018-01-21T06:19:23.437-06:002018-01-21T06:19:23.437-06:00Rev. Ethelred Taunton's exegetical commentary ...Rev. Ethelred Taunton's exegetical commentary on the entire Little Office of the BVM, verse by verse, published in 1903, has the same quality to it. E.g. "de torrente in via vivet" in Ps 109, is interpreted among other things as symbolic of the Incarnation, when Our Lord drinks of the torrent of our humanity passing through history.Tom B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07289474788868616380noreply@blogger.com