Wyclif’s Mystic Body
A Study of his Summa de Ente and De Ecclesia
Paperback (Published)
(September 2026)
ISBN: 9782503623863
6.14 x 9.21 inches
Price: $88.00
Wyclif’s ecclesiology as expressed in De Ecclesia is shown to arise from his philosophical realism as developed in his Summa de Ente
John Wyclif’s concept of the Church as a corpus mysticum, as described in his De Ecclesia, is based in the metaphysical realism described in the treatises of Summa de Ente I. In this study, Lahey establishes that Wyclif’s ontology and philosophy of language support the distinct reality of aggregate beings, apart from their constituent parts. The Church is just such a being, Wyclif believes, a continuation of the Incarnation in history.
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