ABSTRACT
Differences between liturgical and theological writings in terms of their focus, form, and purpose limit the amount of shared material and generally result in quite distinct treatments of baptism, the mass, ecclesiastical orders, and other corresponding subject matter. It is therefore of some interest to find three properly liturgical questions among the hundred or so philosophical and theological questions in the Quodlibets of the early Dominican master Guerric of Saint-Quentin. Guerric's own ten-part Quaestio de sacramento ordinis is quite distinct from the quodlibetal question; it pertains instead to the name of the sacrament, the Old and New Testament priesthood, the church's assimilation to the celestial hierarchy, and the prohibition against the ordination of women. What distinguishes Guerric's liturgical questions from the commentaries cannot be accounted for by the context in which they appear. Guerric's Quodlibets are among the earliest examples of quodlibetal questions and do not necessarily conform to the procedures in use since the middle of the thirteenth century.
