1st Edition

Semiotic Theory and Sacramentality in Hugh of Saint Victor

By Ruben Angelici Copyright 2019
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers Hugh of Saint Victor’s early scholastic thoughts on sacrament in order to re-discover the pre-modern theological understanding of ontological signification. The Christian understanding of sacrament through the category of ‘signs’ results in a theology that inherently shares in the philosophical notion of semiotics. Yet, through the advent of post-structuralism, current... Read more

Introduction





1 Pedagogy, Lectio, and Vera Philosophia





2 The Signification of The Sign: Creation And Incarnation





3 The Christ-Centred Opus Restaurationis





4 The Berengarian Controversy and Sign-Theory





5 The Realist Character of Hugh of Saint Victor’s Mystical Sacramentality





6 Sacramentality, Signification, and Poiesis





Conclusion

Biography

Ruben Angelici is a graduate of the University of Cambridge. He is a priest in England and holds degrees and expertise in theology, philosophy, biology, and music. He is a member of the Internationale Gesellschaft für Theologische Mediävistik, and has been a sessional lecturer in Theology and Church History at University of Manchester, Nazarene Theological College, UK. His areas of academic interests include philosophical and sacramental theology, scholastic theology and philosophy (particularly the XII century and the school of Saint Victor), the Nouvelle Théologie, semiotics, post-structuralism, and the philosophy of language. This is his second book on Victorine, philosophical theology.