Henry of Ghent and the Transformation of Scholastic Thought

Henry of Ghent and the Transformation of Scholastic Thought

Author: Guy Guldentops

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9789058673299

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Throws light on the particular renewal of the theological and philosophical tradition which Henry of Ghent brought about and elucidates various aspects of his metaphysics and epistemology ethics, and theology.


Henry of Ghent

Henry of Ghent

Author: Juan Carlos Flores

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9789058675378

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The book elucidates Henry of Ghent''s philosophical and theological system with special reference to his trinitarian writings. It demonstrates the fundamental role of the Trinity in Henry''s philosophy and theology. It also shows how Henry (d. 1293), the most influential theologian of his day at Paris, developed the Augustinian tradition in seminal ways in response to the Aristotelian tradition, especially Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274).


A Companion to Henry of Ghent

A Companion to Henry of Ghent

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-12-07

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9004193456

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Henry of Ghent, who taught in the theology faculty in Paris from c. 1275 until his death in 1293, was an original, pivotal, and influential thinker. Henry’s theories on a wide range of theological and philosophical topics led to a transformation of scholastic thought in the years shortly after the death of Thomas Aquinas. The Companion to Henry of Ghent is an introduction to his thought. It first addresses the historical context of Henry: his writings, his participation in the events of 1277, and Muslim philosophical influences. The volume continues with an examination of his theology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. It concludes with an examination of two authors whom he influenced: John Duns Scotus and Pico della Mirandola. Contributors include: Amos Edelheit, Juan Carlos Flores, Bernd Goehring, Ludwig Hödl, Tobias Hoffman, Jules Janssens, Marialucrezia Leone, Steven Marrone, Martin Pickavé, Roland Teske, SJ, Robert Wielockx, Gordon Wilson


Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes Volume 1

Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes Volume 1

Author: Dragos Calma

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-05-15

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 9004395113

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Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of Proclus’ legacy in the Hellenic, Byzantine, Islamic, Latin and Hebrew traditions. The history of the Book of Causes, an Islamic adaptation of mainly Proclus’ Elements of Theology and Plotinus' Enneads, is reconsidered on the basis of newly discovered manuscripts. This first volume enriches our understanding of the diverse reception of Proclus’ Elements of Theology and of the Book of Causes in the Western tradition where universities and religious schools offered unparalleled conditions of diffusion. The volume sheds light on overlooked authors, texts, literary genres and libraries from all major European universities from the 12th to the 16th centuries.


The Cambridge Handbook of Natural Law and Human Rights

The Cambridge Handbook of Natural Law and Human Rights

Author: Tom Angier

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-11-17

Total Pages: 893

ISBN-13: 1108943683

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This Handbook provides an intellectually rigorous and accessible overview of the relationship between natural law and human rights. It fills a crucial gap in the literature with leading scholarship on the importance of natural law as a philosophical foundation for human rights and its significance for contemporary debates. The themes covered include: the role of natural law thought in the history of human rights; human rights scepticism; the different notions of 'subjective right'; the various foundations for human rights within natural law ethics; the relationship between natural law and human rights in religious traditions; the idea of human dignity; the relation between human rights, political community and law; human rights interpretation; and tensions between human rights law and natural law ethics. This Handbook is an ideal introduction to natural law perspectives on human rights, while also offering a concise summary of scholarly developments in the field.


Divine Illumination

Divine Illumination

Author: Lydia Schumacher

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-04-18

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0470657421

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In Divine Illumination, Schumacher offers an original approach to Augustine's theory of divine illumination, the precondition of all human knowledge. Written with great originality and clarity, she traces the idea through medieval thinkers, into early modernity, and reveals its importance in modern theories of knowledge. Takes an original approach to reading Augustine's theory of divine illumination and shows how the theory was transformed and reinterpreted in medieval philosophy and theology Presents a groundbreaking way of thinking about the writings of Augustine, Anselm, Bonaventure, Aquinas, and John Duns Scotus, and relates this to cutting edge questions in contemporary philosophy of religion, especially epistemology Is a significant contribution to the history of philosophy but also to contemporary debates on faith and reason Lays the foundation for future efforts to come to terms with the contemporary epistemological situation and its inherent problems


Philosophy and Theology in the Long Middle Ages

Philosophy and Theology in the Long Middle Ages

Author: Kent Emery

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-03-05

Total Pages: 1021

ISBN-13: 9004169423

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The title of this Festschrift to Stephen Brown points to the understanding of medieval philosophy and theology in the longue durée of their traditions and discourses. The 35 contributions are disposed in five parts: Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy, Epistemology and Ethics, Philosophy and Theology, Theological Questions, Text and Context.


Theological Anthropology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium

Theological Anthropology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium

Author: Kevin Wagner

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-04-29

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1666709255

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Theological Anthropology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium is the third volume of the Theology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium series. Bringing together Catholic and Orthodox scholars of diverse disciplines, this work sheds new light on the question “what does it mean to be a human person?” Beginning with an overview on the state of the discipline in our time, the book brings theological anthropology into dialogue with epistemology, Christology, science, spiritual theology, and pedagogy. It explores how human persons—who are created in God’s image and likeness—can come to knowledge of the self and the other, such that the individual person can know, love, and be united to the God and Father of Jesus Christ.


Henry of Ghent's Summa

Henry of Ghent's Summa

Author: Henry (of Ghent)

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9789042918115

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This volume continues Professor Roland Teske's translation of a series of important questions from Henry of Ghent's Summa of Ordinary Questions (Summa quaestionum ordinarium). It contains the Latin text of questions 25 through 30 (which treat of God's unity and simplicity), a close English translation, a philosophical introduction, and notes identifying all of Henry's sources. Moreover, there is a glossary of Henry's often complex technical terminology. The questions translated in this volume impressively reflect the changed intellectual climate in the last quarter of the thirteenth century, after the condemnations of 1277. To Henry, Aristotelianism is not a viable option for a Christian thinker. Reading the Philosopher "with greater historical accuracy than Thomas Aquinas," as Teske writes, Henry reaffirms the Catholic faith vigorously against the influence of a philosophy that, in his view, applies principles of Greek metaphysics to Christianity without sufficient discernment. Henry develops many of his positions in critical dialogue with Thomas Aquinas, whom he associates with the overly enthusiastic kind of Aristotelianism that he helped condemn in 1277.