The Raven and the Writing Desk: The Theoretical Limits of Patristic Criticism

Author / Editor
Rogers, William E.

Title
The Raven and the Writing Desk: The Theoretical Limits of Patristic Criticism

Published
Chaucer Review 14 (1980): 260-77.

Description
A theoretical objection to patristic criticism is that it is guilty of question-begging because it assumes that a work is intended to promote "caritas." It is not the assumption of coherence that produces the fallacy but the assumption of a particular kind of coherence.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.