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153150003X pdf In this book Justin Shaun Coyle remembers the theology of beauty of the forgotten Summa Halensis, an early-thirteenth-century text written by Franciscan friars at the University of Paris. Many scholars vaunt the Summa Halensisconceived but not drafted entirely by Alexander of Hales (d. 1245)for its teaching on beauty and its influence on giants of the high scholastic idiom. But few read the texts teaching theologicallyas a teaching about God. The Beauty of the Trinity: A Reading of the Summa Halensis proposes an interpretation of the Summas beautyteaching as deeply and inexorably theological, even trinitarian. The book takes as its keystone a passage in which the Summa Halensis identifies beauty with the sacred order of the divine persons. If beauty names a trinitarian structure rather than a divine attribute, then the text teaches beauty where it teaches trinity. So Read more