Data published by John Hilary Martin, O.P.,‘The
Ordination of Women and the Theologians in the Middle Ages’, published in
Escritos del Vedat 16 (1986) 87-143, here
pp. 100-101; also in , A History of Women and
Ordination, Volume 1, The Ordination of Women in Medieval Context,
ed. by Bernard Cooke and Gary Macy, the Scarecrow Press, London 2002, pp.
31-160, here pp. 83-84, 137,
161.
Information on the author
Antonio Andreas (1280-1320), so-called "Doctor Dulcifluus" taught at the
newly founded University of Lerida in Sapin about 1315. He later became
Franciscan Minister for the Province of Aragon, but beyond that little is known
of him. Besides editions of his Sentences, which were frequently
reprinted in the 15th and 16th centuries, he has left manuscripts for
commentaries on the Metaphysics, a work on the three principles of nature and
quaestiones over Gilbert de la Porrée, suggesting an interest in arts
and philosophy more than theology. NCE 1: 647-648. In his arguments against the
ordination of women he was influenced by Duns
Scotus.
Latin Text
Dico ergo, quod non
mulier nec de facto nec de congruo, nec aliquomodo est capax susceptionis
alicuius ordinis sacri ecclesiastici de dictis, nec creditur hoc esse ex
prohibitione ecclesiae, quia ecclesia de se non exceptuasset totum sexum
muliebrem ad dignitatum sine culpa, et maxime, quia tales gradus ecclesiae
maxime possunt esse, et quantum est de se sunt ad profectum animarum non solum
aliorum hominum sed etiam ipsorum habentium tales gradus, et ita credo ita
institutum fuisse a Christo, ut dicit Apostolus ad Thimotheum, 'docere mulierem
in ecclesia non permitto'; quia scilicet Christus non permittit, et signum
expressum est, quia nec suam matrem excedentem in sanctitate omnem puram
creaturam instituit in aliquo gradu tali. Ratio huius est forte, quam innuit
Apostolus primo ad Cor. [14: 34], quia post lapsum noluit Deus ascendere
mulierern ad talem gradum dignitatis; quia sibi in poenam dictum est Gen. [3:
16] 'sub viri potestate eris'. , Ant. Andreae Conventualis
Franciscani ex Aragoniae Provinciae ac Joannis Scoti Doctoris Subtilis
Discipuli Celeberrimi (Venetiis, 1578), IV Sent., dist 25, q. 1, a. 3, 11 fol.
156 rb.
Translation
"I say, therefore, that no woman either de facto or by appropriateness
or in any other way is able to receive any of the aforementioned sacred
ecclesiastical orders. Nor is this believed to be from a prohibition of the
church because the church by itself would hot have excluded the whole female
sex from the dignity without sin, and especially since these grades of the
church are able to be of such a kind that in so far as in themselves they are
for the perfection of the souls not only of other persons but even of the those
having these grades. And for this reason I believe it was so instituted by
Christ, as the apostle says to Timothy, "I do not permit a woman to teach in
church." Since clearly Christ did not permit it, and a sign [of this] was
expressed since he did not institute his own mother in any such grade who
exceeded in sanctity all pure creatures. The reason for this is strongly given
when the apostle intimated in the First Letter to the Corinthians .[14:34] that
after the Fall God did not allow women to ascend to such grades of dignity
because it was said to them in punishment in Genesis [3:16] 'you will be under
the power of men'.''
Commentary on the Fourth Book of Sentences, dist. 25, q. 1, a.
3, Ant. Andreae Conventualis Franciscani ex Aragoniae Provinciae ac Joannis
Scoti Doctoris Subtitis DiscipuliCeleberrimi (Venice, 1578),
vol. 2, fol. 156 rb.
