Comments on: The Hugh of St. Victor option https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2017/04/the-hugh-of-st-victor-option/ Truth Will Prevail Sun, 05 Aug 2018 23:56:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 By: Clark Goble https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2017/04/the-hugh-of-st-victor-option/#comment-540979 Sun, 09 Apr 2017 01:21:27 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=36457#comment-540979 I know this will sound stupid, but for some reason I’m thinking of the Father Cadfael series even though he was technically a monk. Yet he spent most of his time working with the townspeople.

I’ll confess that while I’ve read a reasonable amount of medieval philosophy I don’t know how the day to day lives of people went.

]]> By: Jonathan Green https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2017/04/the-hugh-of-st-victor-option/#comment-540978 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 17:37:56 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=36457#comment-540978 Clark, first I should admit that high medieval religious orders are a bit outside my professional beat. With Canons Regular, though, you have people who are not just literate like monks, and thus with access to classic and more recent works on medicine and agriculture and other professional fields, but they’re also located in town, interacting with the lay public, and running cathedral schools. If you’re looking for translations of Greek treatises on medicine or Arabic astronomers, I’d guess you’re much more likely to get it from a canonical foundation in the center of town than from a cloister out in the countryside somewhere.

How might that model work today? This is pure speculation, but it might suggest that a canonical model should involve both “clerical” and “professional” aspects. And again I think this is something quite familiar from LDS life, where local leadership (in both the formal and informal senses) includes both an overt religious component and an unspoken expectation of exemplary professional life. That can be problematic, but there might be some real potential there as well.

]]> By: Clark Goble https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2017/04/the-hugh-of-st-victor-option/#comment-540976 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 03:49:52 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=36457#comment-540976 I like this Jonathan. When you say edify the town, what in practice did that mean? In particular when you say professional skills were transmitted, what did that mean and how as a model does that work for us today?

]]> By: christiankimball https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2017/04/the-hugh-of-st-victor-option/#comment-540974 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 22:23:51 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=36457#comment-540974 I like this. I’m not comfortable with the Benedictine model (from Dreher or otherwise) and offering a positive and proven alternative is better than the simple carping that I might do.

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