Thomas Aquinas and Bible exposition (Ryan McGraw)

[Reformed Covenanter]

Medieval universities often reflected a back and forth pull between lecturing on Lombard’s Senetentiae and the Bible itself. Most medieval theologians agreed that both were necessary tasks. The question was which procedure took priority. Thomas Aquinas illustrates the push back against getting too far away from the text of Scripture by lecturing exclusively on Lombard, which some schools had begun to do. This led to a proliferation of lectures on books of the Bible on his part.

Ryan McGraw, Reformed Scholasticism: Recovering the Tools of Reformed Theology (London: T&T Clark, 2019), p. 122.