PART 5: The status of Eucharistic accidents ‘sine subiecto’ in selected reactions to Thomas Aquinas

Abstract

In his study of the condemnation of 1277 R. Hissette has drawn attention to the connection between four articles within the list of condemned propositions and the discussions in the Artes-faculty, leading up to the condemnation of 1277, regarding accidents 'sine subiecto'. The articles in question are the following:-Quod, cum Deus non compareretur ad entia in ratione causae materialis vel formalis, non facit accidens esse sine subiecto, de cuius ratione est, actu inesse subiecto. (138/199) 1 -Quod accidens esse sine subiecto non est accidens, nisi aequivoce; et quod impossibile est quantitatem sive dimensiones esse per se; hoc enim esset ipsam esse substantiam. (139/198) -Quod facere accidens sine subiecto habet rationem impossibilis implicantis contradictionem. (140/196) -Quod Deus non potest facere accidens esse sine subiecto, nec plures dimensiones simul esse. (141/197) 5.1.1 The Parisian Condemnation of 1277 On 7 March 1277, the third anniversary of the death of St. Thomas Aquinas, Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, issued the condemnation of 219 errors of a theological and philosophical nature. 2 The challenge of integrating various non-Christian writings, 261 1 The first enumeration is taken from the original list as published in the Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis, ed. Heinrich S.