Henry of Ghent Henry of Ghent, Wilson Gordon Wilson (EDT), Etzkorn Girard Etzkorn (EDT), Goehring Bernd Goehring (EDT) Summa (Quaestiones ordinariae) art. LVI - LIX

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Criticaledition of articles 56-59 of Henry's Summa on the properties of Father and Son Articles 56-59 of Henry ofGhent's Summa is devoted to the trinitarian properties. Henry was the most importantChristian theological thinker in the last quarter of the 13th century and hisworks were influential not only in his lifetime, but also in the followingcentury and into the Renaissance.Henry's Quaestionesordinariae (Summa), articles 56-59 deal with the trinitarian properties andrelations, topics of Henry's lectures at the university in Paris. In these articles,dated around 1286, Henry treats generation, a property unique to the Father,and being generated, a property unique to the Son. The university in Paris distributed articles 56-59 by means of twosuccessive exemplars divided into peciae. Manuscripts copied from eachhave survived and the text of the critical edition has been established basedupon the reconstructed texts of these two exemplars.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).