SOURCE: Maurer, Armand. “Siger of Brabant and Theology.” Mediaeval Studies 50 (1988): 257-78.

In the following essay, Maurer compares Siger's account of sacred theology with Aquinas's and discusses Siger's remarks in the larger context of his total extant works.

While William Dunphy and I were preparing the editions of the Vienna and Cambridge manuscripts of Siger of Brabant's Quaestiones in Metaphysicam, we found that both contain a passage in which he describes six ways in which sacred theology (which he calls ‘the science that is sacred Scripture’) differs from theology in the Aristotelian sense (which he calls ‘the theology that is part of philosophy’). The Vienna manuscript has the fuller account of the subject; the Cambridge manuscript has a shortened version of it. The passage is not in the Paris or Munich manuscripts of Siger's Quaestiones. This is not surprising because the former is highly abridged and the latter ends...