Knowing God by Experience: The Spiritual Senses in the Theology of William of Auxerre by Boyd Taylor Coolman

2006 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-139
Author(s):  
Kevin L. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Senses ◽  
William Of Auxerre

William of Auxerre

2020 ◽  
pp. 2059-2062
Author(s):  
Boyd Taylor Coolman
Keyword(s):  
William Of Auxerre

Richard of St Victor (d. 1173)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kent Emery
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Psychology ◽  
Literal Sense ◽  
Spiritual Senses ◽  
Biblical Anthropology ◽  
Theological Pedagogy

Richard is most famous for his contemplative doctrine, which is based on a biblical anthropology that involves a philosophical psychology and noetic theory. Richard’s writings should be understood in the context of Hugh of St Victor’s programme for a complete theological pedagogy, organized according to the threefold sense of Scripture (literal, allegorical, tropological). Richard’s specifically exegetical works include an encyclopedic introduction to the methods of interpreting Scripture, the Liber exceptionum, and important commentaries on the Apocalypse and Ezekiel. Like Hugh, he stresses that the literal sense of Scripture is the foundation of its spiritual senses.

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