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Repetition and Mythos
Matthew R. Boulter
其他書名
Ratzinger's Bonaventure and the Meaning of History
出版
Wipf and Stock Publishers
, 2022-02-03
主題
Religion / Christian Theology / History
Religion / Christianity / Catholic
Religion / Christian Theology / General
ISBN
1666718467
9781666718461
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cXtdEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Writing his
Habilitationsschrift
as a young man in the late 1950s, future Pontiff Joseph Ratzinger argues that, when St. Bonaventure composed his
Collationes in Hexaëmeron
in the spring of 1273, not since St. Augustine’s
De Civitate Dei contra Paganos
had the world seen such a ground-breaking work on the
logos
of history. Indeed, for Ratzinger’s Bonaventure, history is “first philosophy.” The thirteenth-century Franciscan rails against the widespread assumption, rooted the newly “rediscovered” Aristotle, of history’s unintelligibility. For Bonaventure,
mythos
mediates the difference between science and history, yielding a non-positivistic approach to the latter. Building on the dynamics of Plato’s Line, Boulter show that the days of creation, narrated by Bonaventure, structure both history and thought. Because, like a story, it has beginning and end, history as a whole can be grasped. Hence, eschatological knowledge of the end of the world is possible. Yet this work also shows how the false “progress myths” of modernity are counterfeit versions of true, spiritual advancement of the kind embodied by saints such as Francis and Bonaventure himself. What is the
logos
of history? It turns out that it is
mythos
.