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Document Details : Title: George Scholarius - Gennadius II Subtitle: Reading Augustine through Aquinas Author(s): KEREFIDES, Athanasios Journal: Augustiniana Volume: 76 Issue: 1 Date: 2026 Pages: 241-276 DOI: 10.2143/AUG.76.1.3295617 Abstract : Augustine is by far the most quoted Latin patristic authority throughout George Scholarius - Gennadius II’s oeuvre. According to the evidence already put forward, Augustine’s impact on Byzantine intellectuals was, for the most part, confined to theological issues, especially the hotly debated issue of the Filioque and the apparitions of God and angels in the Old Testament, on the basis of Maximus Planudes’s late thirteenth-century translation of De Trinitate. This remained the case even after Prochorus Cydones’s and Demetrius Cydones’s translations of a number of Augustinian and Ps.-Augustinian works in the early second half of the 14th century. Scholarius, in the mid-15th century, was no exception to the rule; still, by reading Augustine through Thomas Aquinas, he set out to touch on a wider range of contentious hylomorphic views, namely that (i) the human soul is created at some point after the formation of the body; (ii) Adam’s soul was created before the body; (iii) stars are ensouled; (iv) the formless matter of all corporeal things is the same, and (v) the formlessness of matter did not precede its formation. Here, I focus on this neglected aspect of the Byzantine reception of Augustine, in light of its hitherto untraced Thomistic sources. |
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