In this supplement to his study of monastic theology published in Bijdragen 57 381-404 Martijn Schrama demonstrates how in the development of the scholastic theology of the 13th century interest for the affect diminishes. However, where the affective moment is stimulated anew by the theologians of the Schola Augustiniana, it serves to emphasize the pastoral aspect of theology, in oppositition to the dogmatic aspect of the discipline.

Theology as generated in the Chapter Schools and the Universities was characterized by the increasing use of grammar and logic. As a reaction, the monastic world, which sought to place more emphasis on the expression of personal experience and emotion, came to develop a theology all of its own. This process was to continue far into the 13th century. Scholastics, during the period of their formation in the monastery, came to be acquainted with this form of monastic theology. The attempts (...) by the Austin Friar Giles of Rome , to integrate both scholastic reasoning and monastic inspiration within his own theology, appear then all the more surprising. (shrink)

The author takes the publication of an impressive dissertation on Thomas a Kempis’ Hortulus Rosarum and Vallis Liliorum as an opportunity to call attention to Thomas’ theology and spirituality. Rather than to put this work within the usual framework of the history of spirituality, he looks at it from the viewpoint of a scholar of monastic theology and medieval forms of pastoral theology. The last decades have seen an increase of this kind of research. He presents the contents of this (...) excellent work and discusses its most important results. (shrink)