Renato De Filippis

Boethius’s Opuscula sacra, which have received the most attention from the studies of the last 40 years, present numerous unresolved hermeneutical problems. The present work reviews the principal collected interpretations of them since 1974 (the studies of Obertello, Chadwick, Micaelli, Moreschini, Lluch-Baixauli, d’Onofrio, Galonnier, Nash-Marshall, Tisserand) in order to offer the status quaestionis of the major themes of the debate (the definitions of natura and persona, the second axiom of De hebdomadibus, the paternity of the De fide catholica, the meaning of the divisio philosophiae of the De Trinitate, the meaning of the hebdomades, Boethius’s capabilities in logic)...