SOURCE: Bukowski, Thomas P. “Siger of Brabant, Anti-Theologian.” Franciscan Studies 50, no. Annual 28 (1990): 57-82.

In the following essay, Bukowski explores the differences between the theological views of Siger and those of Thomas Aquinas.

I. Status

1. Toronto's distinguished Professor Armand Maurer has, in Mediaeval Studies (1988), presented a veritable sequel, entitled “Siger of Brabant and Theology,” to a much earlier study of his. The earlier study, entitled “A Promising New Discovery for Sigerian Studies,” was done with his colleague William Dunphy as co-author, and had itself appeared in Mediaeval Studies (1967). It was interesting as describing a newly discovered manuscript that contained long-lost writings of Siger's, and as bringing to light valued texts from that and a parallel manuscript. Yet, for the rest it was, I believe, misleading and almost useless, and I have ventured to criticize it, in a brief article in The New Scholasticism (1987). Fr. Maurer's new study, on the...