Also known as:
French: Philippe de Harveng;
Latin: Philippus Harvengius
PHILIP OF HARVENG (of Bonne-Espérance). - Premonstratensian theologian, b. at Harveng (Belgium) ca. 1100 and d. at Bonne-Espérance on 11 April 1183. The son of poor parents, he probably studied in Paris and became a canon of the Premonstratensian abbey of Bonne-Espérance (Belgium). In 1130 he was prior under the first abbot Odo; in 1149 he was deposed by the General Chapter of Prémontré for reasons not entirely clear, and exiled. In 1152 he was rehabilitated, and in 1158 raised to the dignity of abbot, which he voluntarily renounced in 1182.
Distinguished for his vast knowledge of the ancient classics and of the Bible. F. is the representative of pre-scholastic Augustinian philosophy, which devotes itself preferably to allegorical explanations of Holy Scripture. In it one recognizes traits common to St. Bernard, Hugh of St. Victor and Rupert of Deutz. His writings, which served mostly the needs of his own convent, deal first of all with questions of Christian anthropology. On the basis of Augustinian views on original sin, F. does not do full justice to the human nature of Christ as capable of suffering. With Bernard, he refutes the Immaculate Conception of Mary, but upholds her bodily Assumption. He wrote, among other things, a commentary on the Song of Songs. With the treatise De institutione clericorum he intervenes significantly in the struggle between monasticism and the Regular Canons. F.'s style is an artistic rhymed prose. As abbot, he was a promoter of studies and brought his abbey to great flourishing. He was in epistolary correspondence with important figures of his time.
Bibliography7 worksWorks: Opera omnia, ed. by N. Chaumart, Dossi 1621; PL. 203. Studies: L. Goovaerts, Ettronica, artistes et savants de l'Ordre de Prémontré.
BIBL.: Works: Opera omnia, ed. by N. Chaumart, Dossi 1621; PL. 203. Studies: L. Goovaerts, Ettronica, artistes et savants de l'Ordre de Prémontré. II, Bruxelles 1922, p. 34 ff.; A. Breys, s. v. in DThC, XII, coll. 1497-11; G. P. Sijen, Philippe de Harveng, abbé de Bonne-Espérance, in Analecta Prémonstratensis, 14 (1938), pp. 37 ff., 189 ff.; id., Les oeuvres de Philippe de Harveng, ibid., 15 (1939), p. 129 ff.; M. Fitchum, Die Christologie der Prémonstratenser im 27. Jahrhundert. Plan bei Marienbad 1939, p. 62 ff.; F. Petit, La spiritualité des Prémontrés aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles. Parigi 1947, p. 129 ff.
Huber, Agostino. “Filippo di Harveng (Di Bonne-Espérance).” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, coll. 1318–1319. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/filippo-di-harveng-di-bonne-esperance.
MLA
Huber, Agostino. “Filippo di Harveng (Di Bonne-Espérance).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 1318–1319. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/filippo-di-harveng-di-bonne-esperance.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec5_filippo_di_harveng_di_bonne_es,
author = {Huber, Agostino},
title = {Filippo di Harveng (Di Bonne-Espérance)},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {V},
pages = {1318--1319},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/filippo-di-harveng-di-bonne-esperance}
}
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