Prof. Boyd Taylor Coolman

May 28, 2025

Capitalizing Christ in Thirteenth-Century Scholasticism | Prof. Boyd Taylor Coolman

Prof. Boyd Taylor Coolman examines the thirteenth-century scholastic doctrine of “capital grace,” showing how Alexander of Hales, Hugh of Saint Victor, and the Summa Halensis developed a pneumatologically-centered account of Christ as the head of the Church, which Aquinas later systematized, emphas…