ABSTRACT
With such an articulate and sophisticated understanding of the subject matter of theology, one would expect a similar presentation of a relevant theological method. However, readers of Grosseteste soon discover that he provides no complete account of how a theologian ought to investigate his subject. We have encountered some facets of a methodology that are implicit in the subject itself,1 but there are few broader indications of how a theologian goes about his business. In one way, the absence of such an account is not surprising, for the issue of theological method did not really come to the foreground of scholastic theology until the 1240s.2 However, given the fact that William of Auxerre had broached this very topic in his Summa aurea before 1225, the absence of any equivalent discussion in Grosseteste’s theological writings is still somewhat glaring.
