Scholasticism and the Sacraments: Sacramental Anthropology

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

(May 13-15, 2021)

This session is focused on the way in which the medieval sacramental imagination affected scholastic accounts of the human person. Adapting categories from Augustine, Peter Lombard's doctrine of signs provided a sacramental perspective that would shape the approach of later scholastics. Many of the philosophical accounts of the human person that emerged in thirteenth and fourteenth century scholasticism remained indebted to this sacramental worldview in important ways. Papers in this session may consider thinkers as early as the Victorines and as late as Duns Scotus, and may focus on either aspects of general sacramental theory or on a specific sacrament.

Papers are 20 minutes in length. Paper proposals are due by Sept. 15, 2020, and must include a 300-word abstract.

Paper proposals must be submitted directly through the congress website: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2021am/cfp.cgi. Select ‘sessions of papers’, and then begin a submission to ‘Scholasticism and the Sacraments: Sacramental Anthropology.’ For further information, email rlynch@dhs.edu.