Title Promoter Affiliations Abstract "The Biblical Commentaries of Cornelius A'Lapide and Guilielmus Estius, and the Post-Tridentine View on Priesthood and Eucharistic Sacrifice" "Wim François" "Research Unit of History of Church and Theology" "The main aim of the project is to examine, through a careful selection of significant Bible pericopes, how the Counter-reformation biblical commentators Cornelius A’Lapide and Guilielmus Estius represent theologies of priesthood and the eucharistic sacrifice in their exegetical work.  To illuminate these themes, primary consideration will be given to the Letter to the Hebrews and the Gospel Institution Narratives as prototypes for priestly and eucharistic theology.  The study will highlight two major elements that determine the shape and tenor of these virtually unknown but very high-quality commentaries.  First, the sources (‘auctoritates’) such as Augustine and Aquinas that each commentator uses in their construction of a biblical theology, especially how these sources determine dialogue c.q. controversy with the major Protestant commentators (e.g. Calvin, Beza, Luther).  Second, the role of hermeneutics, in particular, how each commentator engages the literal meaning of the text as a basis for the construction of a coherent theology.  Insights gleaned from these two elements will lead to an assessment of how the exegetical methods of A’Lapide and Estius relate to those of modern historical criticism, particularly in regard to re-visioning a biblical theology of priesthood and eucharistic sacrifice." "The reception of Augustine and Pelagius in the Carolingian commentary on Romans preserved in Paris Bibl. Nat. lat. 11574. Cultural forgetting in medieval theories on grace, free will, and predestination." "Gert Partoens" "Latin Literature, Leuven" "This project centers on a never-before-published anonymous Carolingian commentary on Pauls Epistle to the Romans, preserved in a single 9th-century manuscript, Paris Bibl. Nat. lat. 11574, and consisting of fragments selected from the writings of patristic authors. Firstly, I propose to provide the first critical edition of this work. Secondly, I will offer an analysis of the fragments selected from Augustine and Pelagius, both of which are important sources in the commentary. In the past, research on medieval biblical commentaries in the form of anthologies has generally focused either on the value of these texts for the reconstruction of the manuscript transmission of the works of the Church Fathers, or on their role in theological and philosophical disputes. I intend to combine these two avenues through the concept of cultural forgetting, i.e. the necessity for a certain interpretation to be collectively forgotten in order for a subsequent generation to form its own interpretation. Specifically, I will examine how the transmission of the Augustinian and Pelagian views on the subjects of grace, free will, and predestination shaped and influenced the interpretation found in the commentary in Paris Bibl. Nat. lat. 11574 and how their conflicting opinions were handled by the compiler. This research question ties in with the broader inquiry into how compilers of medieval biblical commentaries read, interpreted, distributed, and forgot the interpretations of their immediate predecessors and their patristic sources in an uninterrupted dynamic of scriptural interpretation."