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Brill Averroes and Averroism in Medieval Jewish Thought
Book SynopsisThe Andalusian Muslim philosopher Averroes (1126–1198) is known for his authoritative commentaries on Aristotle and for his challenging ideas about the relationship between philosophy and religion, and the place of religion in society. Among Jewish authors, he found many admirers and just as many harsh critics. This volume brings together, for the first time, essays investigating Averroes’s complex reception, in different philosophical topics and among several Jewish authors, with special attention to its relation to the reception of Maimonides.Table of ContentsContents Foreword Racheli Haliva, Daniel Davies and Yoav Meyrav Notes on Contributors Part 1: What Is Jewish Averroism? 1 Was al-Ġazālī an Avicennist? Some Provocative Reflections on Jewish Averroism Steven Harvey 2 How a Rehabilitated Notion of Latin Averroism Could Help in Understanding Jewish Averroism Giovanni Licata Part 2: The Maimonides/Averroes Complex 3 Is Maimonides’s Biblical Exegesis Averroistic? Mercedes Rubio 4 Averroes and Ğābir ibn Aflaḥ among the Jews: New Interpretations for Joseph ben Judah ibn Simon’s Allegorical Correspondence with Maimonides Reimund Leicht 5 The Garden of Eden and the Scope of Human Knowledge: Maimonides, Falaquera and Nissim of Marseille David Lemler 6 The Role of Averroes’s Tahāfut in Narboni’s Commentary on the Guide Yonatan Shemesh Part 3: Averroes in Jewish Religious Discourse 7 Averroism, the Jewish-Christian Debate, and Mass Conversions in Iberia Daniel J. Lasker 8 Double Truth in the Writings of Medieval Jewish Averroists: An Esoteric Way of Appealing to Both Sceptics and Non-sceptics Shalom Sadik 9 Averroes’s Influence upon Theological Responses to Scepticism in Late Medieval Jewish Philosophy Shira Weiss Part 4: Jewish Authors Doing Philosophy with (and about) Averroes 10 Love and Hate May Lead Astray: Moses Halevi’s Rejection of Averroes Yoav Meyrav 11 Averroism in Judah ha-Cohen’s Midraš ha-ḥokhmah? Resianne Fontaine 12 Falaquera the Averroist Yair Shiffman 13 The Necessary Existent, Simplicity, and Incorporeality: An Anti-Avicennian-Averroist Approach Bakinaz Abdalla 14 Gersonides and Kaspi on the Uncertainty of the Future and the Practical Intellect Alexander Green 15 Rabbi Moses ben Judah (Rambi) as an Averroist Esti Eisenmann 16 Crescas’s Attitude toward Averroes Warren Zev Harvey 17 Matter and Elements: Al-Ġazālī and Averroes as a Source of Isaac Abravanel’s “The Forms of the Elements” Elisa Coda Part 5: Averroes in Hebrew and from Hebrew 18 Choking on Water, the Stratification of Society, and the Death of Socrates in the Hebrew Averroes Yehuda Halper 19 Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s accessus ad auctorem: A Hebrew “Aristotelian Prologue” to Averroes’s Middle Commentaries on Rhetoric and Poetics Francesca Gorgoni 20 Jacob Mantino and the Alleged Second Latin Translation of Averroes’s Long Commentary on On the Soul 3.5 and 3.36 Michael Engel Index
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Peeters Publishers Property Rights in the Late Medieval Discussion
Book SynopsisProperty Rights in the Late Medieval Discussion on Franciscan Poverty contributes to our understanding of the history of the concept of individual natural rights by tracing the controversies surrounding the Franciscan ideal of absolute poverty from the 1250s to the 1320s. Virpi Makinen, Th.D., analyzes the complex legal, moral, and theological arguments for and against the Franciscan ideal of giving up all rights over property - an ideal that the Franciscans argued was in perfect imitation of Christ and the Apostles. Makinen pays particular attention to the concepts of rights, especially to the distinctions between dominion (dominium), right (ius) and factual use (usus facti). She discusses the arguments made by both the defenders of the Franciscan claim of apostolic poverty (Bonaventure and Bonagratia of Bergamo) and the attackers, most of whom were secular clerics (such as William of Saint-Amour, Gerard of Abbeville, Henry of Ghent, and Godfrey of Fontaines). Makinen then analyzes the support the Order received from the papacy, and how this support was undermined by Pope John XXII's vehement attack on the Franciscans in the 1320s. The book shows how the debate concerning Franciscan poverty gave rise to a new language of rights, which paved the way to the idea of individual natural rights.
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Peeters Publishers Averrois Commentaria Magna in Aristotelem De Celo
Book SynopsisAbu l-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ibn Rushd (520-95/1126-98, Averroes in the Hispano-Latin tradition) defended philosophy by returning to the text of Aristotle. In his secular effort to explain and to revive the true doctrine of Aristotle, cosmology took a place of special importance. In his Commentarium Magnum on Aristotle's book 'On the Heavens', one of Ibn Rushd's later works, he encountered the essential rationalism of Hellenistic philosophy where reason is actual and visible in the reality of the cosmic order. The concepts and principles of this cosmology, and especially the philosophic dogma of the eternity of the world, were among the most significant contentious issues of medieval philosophy. Thus, it is hardly surprising that this literal commentary on the full text of the Aristotelian work was made available in Latin as one of the earliest translations of Ibn Rushd's works. This translation, prepared by Michael Scot around 1230 and dedicated to Stephen of Provins (probably at Bologna, at the court of Frederic II), is extant in numerous manuscripts and Renaissance prints. The first critical edition of the Latin text has been prepared by the late Francis J. Carmody and is currently being published in the series Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie medievales: Bibliotheca.
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Peeters Publishers The Tract De Unitate Minori of Petrus Thome
Book SynopsisThe notion of unity, or of A"being oneA", has a long tradition in the history of philosophy. It is perhaps the notion to which most discussion has been devoted after that of A"beingA". It has a wide impact, and presents itself under various and different titles: truth, mind, god/God, goodness, the distinction between general and particular and so on. This holds especially for medieval philosophy. What does A"unityA" mean, and to what does it apply? What is its relation to knowledge and naming? And to being? To what extent can being be said to be one? Medieval philosophers were realists in ontology, some to a lesser, some to a greater degree. They all accepted the reality of concrete individual substances, whether existent or not. These entities are singular, and numerically one. However, the views of the medievals differed on the question whether there was another reality, i.e. one beyond the physical reality, on a metaphysical level. If so, what kind of unity is it? To define the nature of it is not easy. John Duns Scot and his pupils, among whom was Petrus Thomae (a Spaniard, born in Catalonia, ca. 1280), accepted such a unity. They accept, of course, the reality of singular concrete things, which numerically are one. However, they posit another reality, which is A"less than numericalA", as they labelled it. This unity is neither general, because generality is a product of the mind, nor is it singular. Pupils and followers of Duns Scotus felt the need to systematise some of their masters' principal ideas. An example of this is Peter Thomae. With the intention to clarify and systematise, Peter wrote a short tract titled De unitate minori ('On unity that is less than numerical'), which is edited here. This volume of the Bibliotheca is a first critical edition of the tract.
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Peeters Publishers Boece Ou La Chaine Des Savoirs: Actes Du Colloque
Book SynopsisLes rencontres qui furent a l'origine de ce recueil ont tente de faire le point sur les sources, la nature, la portee et la posterite de l'oeuvre de Boece (c. 480-c. 524), et d'informer sur le developpement, le renouvellement et l'actualisation des recherches menees sur et autour de ce penseur. Un tel desir de bilan interdisciplinaire, qui fut dicte par l'ampleur meme de sa production et de ses centres d'interet, a conduit a elargir le plus possible le champ des competences, en lui faisant couvrir les quatres rubriques traditionnelles de la science boecienne que sont "trivium" (grammaire, dialectique, rhetorique), "quadrivium" (arithmetique, musique, geometrie, astronomie), theologie et philosophie. La mise au point des actes n'a en rien modifie cette orientation conceptuelle. L'envergure de Boece fut exceptionnelle a la fois par sa situation historique et par la portee de son ideal. La premiere, qui le place a la charniere de l'Antiquite et du Moyen Age, lui valut les apellations de "dernier des Romains et premier des Scolastiques", ou encore de "fondateur du Moyen Age". Le second, qui vise a transmettre au monde latin l'ensemble de l'heritage grec alors connu, fut le seul de cette importance dans l'Occident medieval. L'une et l'autre necessitant des tentatives regulieres de mise a jour, cette publication ne pouvait tendre vers un autre objectif que celui de manifester les avancees scientifiques obtenues dans chacun des domaines de connaissance retenu, en dependance toujours etroite avec les reseaux tisses par l'histoire evenementielle. Celle qui est ici proposee ambitionne donc de sensibiliser aux avancees que l'investigation n'a cesse d'enregistrer ces vingt-cinq dernieres annees en matiere de transmission des savoirs et de traditions textuelles, mises au service d'une apprehension toujours plus affinee du role et d'influence de la pensee boecienne.
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Peeters Publishers Averrois Commentaria Magna in Aristotelem de Celo
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Peeters Publishers Imagination in the Later Middle Ages and Early
Book SynopsisImagination has always been recognised as an important faculty of the human soul. As mediator between the senses and reason, it is rooted in philosophical and psychological-medical theories of human sensation and cognition. Linked to these theories was the use of the imagination in rhetoric and the arts: images had not only an epistemological role in transmitting information from the outside world to the mind's inner eye, but could also be used to manipulate the emotions of the audience. In this tradition, with Cicero and Quintilian as its A"auctoritatesA", images were used to arouse and manipulate the emotions. Both traditions had to be revalued in the seventeenth century with the advent of a mechanist, Cartesian picture of human cognition and the physical world. In spite of their usual suspicion of imagination, which was commonly associated with illusions, dreams and fiction, seventeenth-century philosophers realised that the imagination also had its place in mathematical, scientific and philosophical thinking. This volume, number XII in the series A"Groningen Studies in Cultural ChangeA", offers the papers presented at a workshop on imagination, organised by the editors in September 2002. It covers both the philosophical-psychological as well as the humanist-rhetorical traditions, discussing key figures such as Kilwardby, Lorenzo Valla, Leon Battista Alberti, Agricola, Gianfrancesco Pico, Erasmus, Paracelsus, Kepler, Bacon, Suarez, Descartes and Spinoza, but also treating hitherto neglected texts and writers such as Nicholas of Amsterdam and Jean Lemaire de Belges. By focusing on the ever-shifting ideas of the imagination as a philosophical and rhetorical tool, this volume not only deepens our understanding of its central theme but also sheds new light on the thought and writings of these and other authors.
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Peeters Publishers Das Problem Der Willensschwache in Der
Book SynopsisThis volume contains fourteen contributions to the topic of weakness of will in medieval philosophy. It fills an important gap in current research by presenting Aristotelian and non-Aristotelian medieval accounts of "akrasia", many of which have not yet been the object of scholarly writing. They are not only of great intrinsic philosophical interest; they also eminently document the transformation of ethical thought in the Middle Ages. Weakness of will is a test case for a wider range of problems in moral psychology and ethical theory. The articles collected in this volume give insight into a variety of accounts of practical rationality that were directly or indirectly influential on modern thinkers. The temporal framework of the volume exceeds the Middle Ages on both ends by including Aristotle and authors from the Renaissance and the Reformation.
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Peeters Publishers Alberti De Saxonia Quaestiones in Aristotelis De
Book SynopsisLe Traite du ciel d'Albert de Saxe a exerce une enorme influence sur les conceptions cosmologiques de la fin du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, notamment sur des penseurs tels que Nicolas de Cues, Nicolas Copernic, Leonard de Vinci et Galilee, qui, tout en les contestant sur certains points, s'en sont inspires. Le nombre de manuscrits et d'editions imprimees consacres a cet ouvrage, specialement en Allemagne, en Italie et dans l'Est de l'Europe, temoigne de cette grande renommee.>br/>Pourtant, ce n'est pas tellement la pensee d'Albert qui se reflete dans ces textes que celle de ses maitres, a savoir Buridan (surtout) et Oresme, dont l'influence est omnipresente. Il faudrait donc parler de l'enorme importance de ces deux grands maitres dans le discours de leur disciple et des repercussions que leurs hypotheses ont eues sur les siecles subsequents. C'est, en definitive, a cela que sert la presente edition critique des Quaestiones in De caelo d'Albert de Saxe: donner un texte definitif qui puisse permettre une evaluation de l'apport de chacun, sans craindre de balayer les idees recues.
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Peeters Publishers The Art of Detachment
Book SynopsisDetachment is widely recognized as one of the key concerns of Eckhart in his anthropology. This monograph of the editor of the series introduces this concept from Eckhart's teaching on divine essence, the principle and the transcendentals, to then re-interpret his anthropology by contrasting it with Augustine's Neo-Platonic model of progressing spiritual stages. A close reading of his famous vernacular homilies 2 and 86 and On detachmentwill exemplify how his new philosophical theology translates Luke 10:38-42.
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Peeters Publishers Robert Grosseteste at Munich: The Abbreviatio
Book SynopsisRobert Grosseteste at Munich contains an edition, translation, and careful study of a short and hitherto completely neglected text from a manuscript in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS. clm 8827. This codex'a collection of extracts from a broad range of texts conducive to spiritual contemplation'includes an abbreviatio of Robert Grosseteste's commentaries on the corpus dionysiacum. Professor McEvoy's detailed introduction identifies the author of the abridgment as one Friar Andreas, a Franciscan of the southern German province who worked in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. McEvoy is able to identify a series of early owners of the codex, which turns out to be intimately connected with the history of the Franciscan community at Munich indeed, with the history of Munich itself. For, as McEvoy shows, MS. clm 8827 did not remain unaffected by historical turning-points such as the secularization of 1802 and even World War II.Friar Andreas's text is accompanied by the glosses of "Finehand", a mystically inclined mind who may well have been a Franciscan nun. Finehand represents another layer in the tradition of the reception of the Pseudo-Dionysius, and of Robert Grosseteste's commentary upon the Pseudo-Dionysius, which this volume minutely chronicles.
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Peeters Publishers Boncompagno Da Signa, Amicitia and De Malo
Book SynopsisBoncompagno was born in Signa, not far from Florence, sometime between 1165 and 1175. He first studied at Florence but soon moved to Bologna, becoming a teacher of grammar and rhetoric there. One of the most famous teachers of rhetoric in his time, he was regarded by his contemporaries as being the most skillful, the most original, and the most fertile in imagination of them all. The Amicitia was written toward the end of 1205 at Rome. Its unspoken purpose is to act as a guide in identifying and classifying the various kinds of people who try to gain our trust by posing as friends. Indeed, the text excels in describing in exuberant detail the many 'false' friends we encounter in life. Boncompagno's last work (he died sometime after 1240), the Libellus de malo senectutis et senii, was written when he was old and, as a final irony, without friends. It contains a stark description of the human condition as each one enters into old age and decrepitude and finally encounters death. To the end, Boncompagno continues to regard all of human life with a skeptical, even cynical eye, a detached observer of and commentator on the society of his time.
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Peeters Publishers Durandi de Sancto Porciano Scriptum super IV
Book SynopsisDer Sentenzenkommentar des Durandus von St. Pourçain nimmt, was seine Originalität und seine Bedeutung für die philosophische und theologische Mediävistik angeht, eine herausragende Stellung unter den Sentenzenkommentaren des 14. Jahrhunderts ein. Zum einen ist er ein einzigartiges Dokument für die Debatten vor allem innerhalb des Dominikanerordens um die Bedeutung des Thomas von Aquin und die Verbindlichkeit seiner Lehrmeinungen für den Orden. Zum anderen steht der Sentenzenkommentar des Durandus für die wachsende Bedeutung, die dieses Genre am Ende des 13. und zu Beginn des 14. Jahrhunderts wiedererlangt. Von einem Pflichtstück am Beginn der akademischen Karriere wie etwa bei Thomas von Aquin wird der Sentenzenkommentar nun zu einer wichtigen Schriftgattung eines Magisters der Theologie, die ihn seine ganze akademische Karriere über begleitet. Buch II, Distinktionen 1-5 Mit diesem Band, der der Schöpfungs- und Engellehre gewidmet ist, wird der Sentenzenkommentar des Durandus in seinen ersten beiden Fassungen (A und B), die möglicherweise beide im Zusammenhang mit Durandus' Pariser Sentenzenlesung (1308-1309/10) entstanden sind, erstmals kritisch herausgegeben.
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Peeters Publishers Thomas D'Aquin Lecteur: Vers Une Nouvelle
Book SynopsisLa periode universitaire du Moyen Age se caracterise par un veritable renouveau des formes de production de la pensee : nouvelles sources, nouvelle organisation du savoir, nouvelles theories de l'exegese mais egalement nouvelles pratiques interpretatives. L'ambition de ce livre est double : mettre au jour de maniere unitaire la pratique hermeneutique de l'ensemble de l' uvre de Thomas d'Aquin, et proposer par ce biais une methodologie pour optimiser l'etude de cette pratique chez d'autres auteurs de la meme epoque. A cet effet, l'ouvrage propose une analyse systematique de la locution " intentio auctoris " a partir d'un corpus de pres de sept cent unites textuelles. La portee interpretative de ce syntagme est ici a la fois definie et mise a l'epreuve en vue d'en faire un veritable outil pour les etudes hermeneutiques. L'esquisse lexicale de cette locution, le decodage des criteres de lecture mis en place par Thomas d'Aquin et la determination du caractere juste d'un texte seront les etapes cle de ce parcours.La periode universitaire du Moyen Age se caracterise par un veritable renouveau des formes de production de la pensee: nouvelles sources, nouvelle organisation du savoir, nouvelles theories de l'exegese mais egalement nouvelles pratiques interpretatives. L'ambition de ce livre est double: mettre au jour de maniere unitaire la pratique hermeneutique de l'ensemble de l' uvre de Thomas d'Aquin, et proposer par ce biais une methodologie pour optimiser l'etude de cette pratique chez d'autres auteurs de la meme epoque. A cet effet, l'ouvrage propose une analyse systematique de la locution "intentio auctoris" a partir d'un corpus de pres de sept cent unites textuelles. La portee interpretative de ce syntagme est ici a la fois definie et mise a l'epreuve en vue d'en faire un veritable outil pour les etudes hermeneutiques. L'esquisse lexicale de cette locution, le decodage des criteres de lecture mis en place par Thomas d'Aquin et la determination du caractere juste d'un texte seront les etapes cle de ce parcours.
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Peeters Publishers Durandi de Sancto Porciano Scriptum super IV
Book SynopsisDer Sentenzenkommentar des Durandus von St. Pourçain nimmt, was seine Originalität und seine Bedeutung für die philosophische und theologische Mediävistik angeht, eine herausragende Stellung unter den Sentenzenkommentaren des 14. Jahrhunderts ein. Zum einen ist er ein einzigartiges Dokument für die Debatten vor allem innerhalb des Dominikanerordens um die Bedeutung des Thomas von Aquin und die Verbindlichkeit seiner Lehrmeinungen für den Orden. Zum anderen steht der Sentenzenkommentar des Durandus für die wachsende Bedeutung, die dieses Genre am Ende des 13. und zu Beginn des 14. Jahrhunderts wiedererlangt. Von einem Pflichtstück am Beginn der akademischen Karriere wie etwa bei Thomas von Aquin wird der Sentenzenkommentar nun zu einer wichtigen Schriftgattung eines Magisters der Theologie, die ihn seine ganze akademische Karriere über begleitet. Buch IV, Distinktionen 1-7: In diesem Teil diskutiert Durandus die Grundfragen der Sakramententheologie und entwickelt seine Lehre der Taufe und der Firmung. In all diesen Fragen setzt sich Durandus kritisch mit der Kommentartradition des späten 13. Jahrhunderts auseinander. Dieser Teil wird hier in den ersten beiden Fassungen (A und B) kritisch herausgegeben.
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Peeters Publishers Durandi de Sancto Porciano Scriptum super IV
Book SynopsisDer Sentenzenkommentar des Durandus von St. Pourçain nimmt, was seine Originalität und seine Bedeutung für die philosophische und theologische Mediävistik angeht, eine herausragende Stellung unter den Sentenzenkommentaren des 14. Jahrhunderts ein. Zum einen ist er ein einzigartiges Dokument für die Debatten vor allem innerhalb des Dominikanerordens um die Bedeutung des Thomas von Aquin und die Verbindlichkeit seiner Lehrmeinungen für den Orden. Zum anderen steht der Sentenzenkommentar des Durandus für die wachsende Bedeutung, die dieses Genre am Ende des 13. und zu Beginn des 14. Jahrhunderts wiedererlangt. Von einem Pflichtstück am Beginn der akademischen Karriere wie etwa bei Thomas von Aquin wird der Sentenzenkommentar nun zu einer wichtigen Schriftgattung eines Magisters der Theologie, die ihn seine ganze akademische Karriere über begleitet. Buch IV, Distinktionen 43-50 Dieser Band enthält die Eschatologie des Durandus, also seine Lehre von der Vollendung der Welt und des Menschen. Die dort unterbreiteten Überlegungen sind sowohl aus theologie- als auch aus philosophiehistorischer Sicht beachtenswert. Das Teilstück, das hier erstmals kritisch ediert ist, scheint lediglich in einer einzigen Frühfassung (A=B) zu existieren, die wiederum nur an ausgewählten Stellen von der Fassung letzter Hand abweicht.
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Peeters Publishers Durandi de Sancto Porciano Scriptum super IV
Book SynopsisDer Sentenzenkommentar des Durandus von St. Pourçain nimmt, was seine Originalität und seine Bedeutung für die philosophische und theologische Mediävistik angeht, eine herausragende Stellung unter den Sentenzenkommentaren des 14. Jahrhunderts ein. Zum einen ist er ein einzigartiges Dokument für die Debatten vor allem innerhalb des Dominikanerordens um die Bedeutung des Thomas von Aquin und die Verbindlichkeit seiner Lehrmeinungen für den Orden. Zum anderen steht der Sentenzenkommentar des Durandus für die wachsende Bedeutung, die dieses Genre am Ende des 13. und zu Beginn des 14. Jahrhunderts wiedererlangt. Von einem Pflichtstück am Beginn der akademischen Karriere wie etwa bei Thomas von Aquin wird der Sentenzenkommentar nun zu einer wichtigen Schriftgattung eines Magisters der Theologie, die ihn seine ganze akademische Karriere über begleitet. Buch II, Distinktionen 22-38 In diesem Textabschnitt behandelt Durandus Fragen zur Erbsünde, zum Ursprung des Bösen sowie zum liberum arbitrium in seinem Verhältnis zur menschlichen Vernunft und zur göttlichen Gnade. Dieser Teil des Sentenzenkommentars wird hier in seinen ersten beiden Fassungen (A und B) erstmals kritisch herausgegeben.
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Peeters Publishers Adelmann of Liege and the Eucharistic Controversy
Book SynopsisAdemm Adelmann of Liege was one of the first interlocutors of Berengar of Tours in the Eucharistic controversy of the eleventh century. For that reason, his contribution was of great importance for the development of sacramental theology. This book contains all the known texts of this pre-scholastic theologian from the school of Liege, that is, not only his correspondence with Berengar, but also his famous poem on the theologians of Chartres - the Rhythmus alphabeticus - and his admonishing letter to Arshbishop Hermann of Cologne on the forgiveness of sins.
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Peeters Publishers Thomas Aquinas's Summa Contra Gentiles : a
Book SynopsisThe Summa contra gentiles is perhaps the most peculiar work of St. Thomas Aquinas, due to Thomas's decision to structure the work first according to what humans can say about God without revelation and then what humans can say about God once revelation is explicitly introduced. Such an approach to the human pursuit of the divine is otherwise unheard of in Thomas's own day, and this unusual structure has provided a fertile seedbed for a wide range of interpretations. Matthew Kostelecky's book shows the integral relationship between the conceptions of human nature and God operative throughout the Summa contra gentiles such that the text is always in a twofold movement, at once describing what humans can say about God while also reflecting human nature back on itself by delineating its limits and capabilities with respect to the possible human knowledge of God. As a result, the Summa contra gentiles is presented as a mirror of human nature as that nature is directed to its most noble object.
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Peeters Publishers Henricus Bate. Speculum Divinorum et Quorundam
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Peeters Publishers Henricus Bate. Speculum Divinorum et Quorundam
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Peeters Publishers Trois Commentaires Anonymes sur le Traite de
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Peeters Publishers Les Quaestiones Super Librum de Causis de Siger
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Peeters Publishers Siger de Brabant. Ecrits de Logique, de Morale et
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Peeters Publishers La Bibliotheque du Philosophe Medieviste
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Peeters Publishers Probleme de L'existence de Dieu Dans les Ecrits
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Peeters Publishers William of Auvergne, Rhetorica divina, seu ars
Book SynopsisThis volume contains Professor Roland Teske’s translation of William of Auvergne’s Divine Rhetoric along with the Latin text, introduction, and notes. The Latin text improves on that of the 1674 printed edition by the use of two early manuscripts of the work. William was a theologian at the University of Paris and bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death in 1249. He is mainly known for his huge Teaching on God in the Mode of Wisdom, in which he made extensive use of the works of Avicenna and Aristotle as they were becoming known through translations in order to come to some understanding of the Christian faith and philosophy. Although the majority of his writings focus upon the mysteries of the faith and philosophical questions about the nature of human beings, their God, and their world, William was also a bishop with a deep concern for his clergy and people. In his Divine Rhetoric he aimed to explain and illustrate for his priests and people the art of prayer or, as he put it in the subtitle, The Oratorical Art of Divine Eloquence. The work lists and explains seven characteristics or perfections of prayer, but it is perhaps best known for its application of Ciceronian rules of oratory to Christian oratory or prayer.
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Peeters Publishers En Route to the Confessions: The Roots and
Book SynopsisBy any standard, Augustine of Hippo casts an imposing shadow. With a retrospective distance of 1600 years, his influence on Western thought, political structures, religious institutions, and selfhood seems obviously the work of a giant. However, this god-like figure did not burst forth full-grown. His prodigious creativity was both constrained and aided by a rich complex of theological and philosophical traditions. En route to the Confessions charts the development of Augustine's various understandings of the human person by tracing his phased interactions with particular intellectual traditions and issues from his conversion until his composition of the Confessions. The correlated alterations to Augustine's use of spiritual exercises for human development at each stage are also explored. Augustine's anthropological thinking emerges therein as a series of strikingly fruitful yet thoroughly human syntheses of ancient philosophic and Christian thought. Augustine's philosophical resources and strategical alliances turn out to be much broader than most scholarly accounts have acknowledged. In particular, Augustine made much more extensive use of Roman Stoic conceptualities and argumentative strategies in constructing his philosophical anthropology than heretofore considered.
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Peeters Publishers The Hermeneutics of Knowing and Willing in the
Book SynopsisThis study elicits a concern to show forth those elements in the theology of Saint Thomas Aquinas that can meaningfully engage with those trends in contemporary hermeneutical philosophy and theology that highlight the conditioned nature of human understanding. The main point of reference in this regard is the hermeneutical philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer. At the heart of this hermeneutical enterprise is Thomas's construal of the relationship between intellect and will, a relationship that can be described as one of dynamic reciprocity. A dynamic interaction between intellect and will obtains in both their natural and graced operations. Hence, the title of this book, The Hermeneutics of Knowing and Willing in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. Some might be concerned that the notion of hermeneutics will import the spectre of relativism into Thomas's thought. By guiding the reader through Thomas's doctrine of man as made to the image of the Trinity, his Trinitarian theology, his Christology, and his treatment of grace, the theological virtues of faith and charity, and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, the author shows how Thomas in fact offers us resources for a theological hermeneutics of objectivity. The criteria for this objectivity, so the author argues, are Trinitarian, Christological, Pneumatological, ecclesial, and Scriptural. It is to be hoped that this book will be read not only by those who have a particular interest in Thomas's theology but also by theologians outside of the Thomistic tradition, particularly those interested in hermeneutics.
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Peeters Publishers Amour sacré, fin'amor: Bernard de Clairvaux et
Book SynopsisLa spiritualité bernardine et la fin’amor se rejoignent en de nombreux points, particulièrement dans l’exercice des vertus et le rejet des vices. La pratique de l’humilité et le renoncement à l’orgueil, ainsi que la question de l’accord des volontés, sont constants dans les deux expressions d’un amour qui doit conduire au perfectionnement des protagonistes humains, ainsi qu’à une joie ineffable. Néanmoins, le cheminement spirituel de Bernard de Clairvaux est parsemé de revirements et de doutes, tandis que les troubadours se révoltent contre Amour, entité universelle, au pouvoir quasi absolu. Dans les deux cas, il ne s’agit pas de l’expression d’un amour fou, balayant les contraintes sociales. Les excès en sont limités par la raison, constitutive de l’âme humaine chez Bernard, et la mezura des poètes. Ce qui n’exclut pas l’expression du désir, désir de Dieu ou désir de la dame. Les troubadours ont aussi chanté la seule satisfaction des sens.
£94.00
Peeters Publishers Durand of Saint-Pourçain and His Sentences
Book SynopsisThe articles assembled in this volume shed new light on Durand of Saint-Pourçain and his intellectual context. They reveal how current research is nuancing and challenging Joseph Koch’s groundbreaking studies on Durand; they also propose directions for future research, particularly concerning the reception of Durand’s philosophy and theology.
£87.00
Peeters Publishers La théorie de la connaissance intellectuelle de
Book SynopsisLe présent ouvrage entend faire connaître un acteur et témoin privilégié des débats universitaires en philosophie de la connaissance au début du XIVe siècle : Gérard de Bologne (ca. 1240/50 – 1317), premier grand intellectuel de l’ordre des Carmes. Afin de rendre manifeste l’importance historique de ce maître en théologie de l’Université de Paris, nous offrons l’édition critique, accompagnée d’une étude doctrinale, de quatorze questions quodlibétiques qui relèvent du champ de la gnoséologie. En examinant ce corpus, on rencontre un penseur qui prend position de façon résolue au sujet de problèmes majeurs en théorie de la connaissance : il soutient, notamment, l’élimination de l’espèce intelligible et l’identification du concept à l’acte d’intellection. En outre, on y découvre un savant universitaire qui, par le vaste registre des philosophes de son temps dont il connaît et rapporte les théories, dresse une « cartographie » exemplaire des positions en présence sur le terrain de la gnoséologie à une époque charnière de l’histoire de la scolastique latine.
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Peeters Publishers Lectures médiévales et renaissantes du «Timée» de
Book SynopsisLe Timée est le dialogue platonicien le plus cité, lu et commenté. « Bible » des médio-platoniciens, il a fait l'objet de multiples exégèses dans le monde grec, de Crantor à Proclus. C'est d'abord que le Timée, qui traite de la « création » du monde et de celle de l'homme, se présente comme un mythe. C'est ensuite qu'en proposant un modèle d'univers physique, il offre une véritable encyclopédie scientifique dont la brièveté même ajoutait à la difficulté. Cette dualité explique qu'on en trouve de très nombreuses traces dans le monde latin, notamment médiéval, où traductions et commentaires servent, entre autres, à l'exégèse biblique. À la Renaissance, retrouvant l'héritage hellène, les humanistes disposent des traditions grecque et latine du « dialogue ». C'est précisément ce moment de rencontre des deux traditions que l'on interroge dans ce recueil, à travers l'étude de nombreux champs de la philosophie et de la science.
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Peeters Publishers Faith, Hope and Love: Thomas Aquinas on Living by
Book Synopsisl During the last two decades virtue ethics has become the focal point of renewed ethical and theological interest. To lead a good life, it proves useful to watch those who have mastered the art of living. The conviction that living is an art is at the heart of virtue ethics. Living a good life requires exercise, and is a question of acquiring a virtuous character rather than of complying with external ethical and legal rules. This renaissance partly builds on Thomas Aquinas. He in turn recovered Aristotelian, Ciceronian and Augustinian thought on virtue ethics. The interpretation and development of virtues and vices form the core of his authorship, as the secunda pars of his Summa Theologiae readily displays. And yet, the most important virtues for him are not the moral ones, such as Justice, Temperance, Prudence and Fortitude, but those virtues that are both infused by and aimed at God: Faith, Hope and Love. These are virtues that the philosophers of antiquity were not aware of. To account for them, Aquinas had to adapt the classical understanding of virtues. For Aquinas, the moral virtues come to full fruition only when they are embedded in a life before God, a life lived exercising the God given theological virtues. By ignoring Faith, Hope and Love, the present discussion of virtue ethics not only ignores those virtues that were for Aquinas of utmost importance, but also fails to arrive at a complete understanding of his view of the moral virtues. The papers contained in this volume address this theme, and were originally presented at the fourth international conference of the Thomas Instituut te Utrecht (Tilburg University), at Utrecht in December 2013.
£54.00
Peeters Publishers Meister Eckhart in Paris and Strasbourg
Book SynopsisThis volume considers important aspects of Eckhart's life and teaching from the point of view of his multiple stays in Paris, as well as his time in Strasbourg. The Paris section is a collection of papers given at the meeting on 28-30 May 2010, in Paris, and the Strasbourg section is a collection of papers given at a conference on 19-20 September 2013, in Strasbourg, to mark the 700th anniversary of the arrival of Meister Eckhart in Strasbourg. The two events that these papers witness to are only a small selection from what has become a major issue of debate in recent years with respect to understanding and placing Eckhart in the context of his day.
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Peeters Publishers Anonymi Introductiones Montane Maiores: An
Book SynopsisIt has been a long time ago since Professor De Rijk first drew our attention to an important Parisian manuscript containing two treatises on logic, both connected with the School of the Montani. The school was established in the twelfth century on the Mont Sainte Geneviève (which is situated in what is nowadays known as the Quartier Latin). It was dominated by master Alberic (Albericus) of Paris. The Montani were the heirs (faithful or not) of Pierre Abelard, Robert of Melun and this master Alberic. The present work aims to provide a first working edition of one of the treatises in the manuscript, the Introductiones Montane maiores. This introductory work on logic contains a wealth of information about the way in which logic was taught and practiced in the schools of Paris of the twelfth century. It also gives insight into the vicissitudes of the teachings of different Parisian masters. The edition is preceded by an extensive introduction, with information about the origins and contents of the text and discussions of some interesting doctrinal elements.
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Peeters Publishers Infini et altérité dans l'oeuvre de Nicolas de
Book SynopsisLe Colloque international, qui s'est tenu dans le cadre du laboratoire de recherche (CRHI) du Département de Philosophie de l'Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, en avril 2013, s'est proposé d'étudier le rapport entre infini et altérité dans l'÷uvre de Nicolas de Cues (1401-1464). Les spécialistes réunis ont circonscrit la thèse, qui traverse tout l'÷uvre du Cusain, selon laquelle rien ne peut être en dehors de l'infini. Les contributions rassemblées dans ce volume en révèlent la pertinence et montrent l'actualité d'une pensée qui soulève l'intérêt croissant des chercheurs. S'il y avait quelque chose d'autre en dehors de l'Infini, c'est-à-dire, en dehors de l'Unité pure et nue, Unité maximale, qui n'est susceptible ni de plus ni de moins, l'Un cesserait d'être un, il en serait fini de l'infini! L'enjeu exprimé dans cette problématique est de taille. Il entraîne tout un pan de l'histoire de la philosophie dans le sillage aventureux de l'hénologie néoplatonicienne. Le Parménide de Platon en avait montré le risque maximale: si l'Un est, et bien il n'est plus un. Nicolas de Cues a tenté de sauver l'unité de l'Un, en le «dynamisant» et le «dialectisant». L'Un ne peut s'affirmer qu'en niant ce qui le nie. Il est, selon une formule de maître Eckhart, negatio negationis. L'unité de l'Un, dès lors, ne pourra s'affirmer que par un retour sur soi. Elle est donc un résultat qui est pour Nicolas celui d'un processus ternaire, dont la clé est la connexio qui relie l'aequalitas à l'unitas initiale et sans vie, sauvant du même coup l'Un de l'abîme qui s'ouvrirait entre l'unitas et l'aequalitas et constituerait une altérité sans retour.
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Peeters Publishers The Virtuous Life: Thomas Aquinas on the
Book SynopsisThis book is devoted to the so-called moral virtues, especially those moral virtues of which Christian tradition upholds that they are given by God to the faithful. For instance patience, humility and justice. There are not only different interpretations of these infused moral virtues, but it also is not unambiguous in the theology of Aquinas how these virtues are related to the virtues human beings acquire on their own accord. What is the relationship with Scripture, how do these virtues colour the imitation of Christ, and what do these virtues tell about the moral life of non-Christians? The papers contained in this volume address this theme, and were originally presented at the fifth international conference of the Thomas Instituut te Utrecht(Tilburg University), at Utrecht in December 2015.
£62.00
Peeters Publishers Verschieden - im Einssein: Eine interdisziplinäre
Book SynopsisThis volume argues that the on-going fascination for the middle-age mystic, philosopher and theologian Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) has to do with his understanding of reality as a complex relationship of plurality and unity: as such it defies one-dimensional views and guides to approach it from plural ways. The contributions from different scholarly perspectives (philosophy, theology, history, philology) take this complexity into account and, ipso facto, demonstrate a paradigmatic shift in recent Eckhart research: away from closed terminologies (and attempts to place Eckhart's thought therein) towards more process-oriented dynamic understandings of his work and the object of his work.
£109.25
Peeters Publishers I am myn owene woman, wel at ese : In Memory of
Book SynopsisThis booklet is devoted to the memory of Margaret Jennings (1942–2016), a distinguished medievalist who devoted much of her scholarly work to the fourteenth-century Benedictine Ranulph Higden and his writings. The booklet offers reminiscences by some of Professor Jennings’s closest friends and colleagues, including her husband, Francis P. Kilcoyne. The brief essays reveal a remarkable woman, who was not only a fine scholar, but poured her soul into many activities benefiting other people, whether these were the generations of students she joyfully taught at St. Joseph’s College or parolees in Brooklyn whom she helped get their lives together. Included in this booklet, as well, is a reprint of one of Professor Jennings’s most intriguing articles, in which she reconstructs the scandalous conditions that prevailed at St. Werburgh’s Abbey in the fourteenth century. Her complete bibliography rounds off this commemorative publication.
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Peeters Publishers La monadologie bonaventurienne
Book SynopsisLa pensée bonaventurienne est une monadologie. Son principe n’est pas l’unité indivisible de la monade, comme dans la monadologie leibnizienne, mais la ressemblance avec une tri-unité, la Trinité créatrice que tous les êtres expriment à leur manière. Le cadre de cette expression qui ne doit rien à une harmonie préétablie, relève d’une hiérarchie qui, ordonnée à la Trinité, comprise comme modèle exemplaire de toutes les créatures qui en sont les images, nécessite l’engagement d’un sujet libre qui peut s’y refuser. Cette étude use de l’archéologie foucaldienne et présente le discours monadologique qui articule le sujet et l’objet en tant que monades, comme solution à la problématique archéologique qui articule sujet, objet et discours. Enfin, dans la mesure où Bonaventure n’a pas écrit de traité monadologique et que sa monadologie est la résultante de sa pensée et de son exercice, ce livre doit être compris comme une réécriture de sa monadologie.
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Peeters Publishers Subjekt und Wahrheit: Meister Eckharts dynamische
Book SynopsisPerhaps one of the most prominent features of Meister Eckhart's thought is the refusal to adopt a rigid compartimentalization between the different dimensions of human life. A first-class theologian and philosopher as well as a Dominican preacher, Eckhart does not content himself with pursuing his academic activities in parallel with his more humble pastoral tasks. Rather, he aims at integrating the different claims of revealed theology, philosophical speculation, and spiritual guidance into a dynamic conception of truth as an event that is ultimately rooted in the human subject. Eckhart's thesis that there is only one truth, albeit in different modes and forms, opens the path towards an existential mediation, not only between Scripture-based theology and Aristotelian philosophy, but also between theoretical knowledge as a whole and practical life-orientation. The papers contained in this volume were initially presented at a colloquium on 17 October 2014, in Vienna. The different contributions examine Eckhart's method of "translating truth" from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes theology, medieval and modern philosophy, medieval German literature studies, contemporary exegesis, and spirituality.
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Peeters Publishers Matière et médiations métaphysiques: Étude des
Book SynopsisIl est indéniable que Thomas d’Aquin fit preuve d’une grande originalité métaphysique parmi ses contemporains. Or, ses avancées concernant la signification de l’esse ou l’unicité de la forme substantielle ne peuvent être adéquatement saisies indépendamment d’une compréhension tout aussi originale de la matière, conçue notamment comme pure puissance. Cette étude tâche de saisir les implications de la conception thomasienne de la matière dans les différents domaines de sa pensée, de la physique à la métaphysique, en passant par les fondations, dans la constitution même de la substance, des théories de la connaissance, de l’agir moral et de l’appréhension du beau. On y découvre une conception de la substance-sujet au sens fort qui se montre pourtant, au cœur même de ses principes constitutifs, radicalement ouverte à l’originalité de l’Altérité sous ses diverses formes.
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Peeters Publishers Thomas Aquinas on the Beatitudes: Reading
Book SynopsisWhat is happiness and how do we attain it? Saint Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1226-1274) devoted much time to these questions. In studying them he always returned to the beatitudes as they are found in Matthew 5:1-10. They function as the framework for his theology of human happiness. This study presents that theology as it comes to the fore in Aquinas’ performance of his three tasks as a magister at the Parisian university: to read Scripture, to dispute theological topics, and to preach. This study shows that Aquinas believes that the beatitudes describe a number of virtuous actions, the exercise of which is made possible by grace, specified in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. To all those observing the new law constituted by the beatitudes, a reward is promised in the form of eternal happiness. Any happiness that can be had in this life is at best an inchoate form of the reward of eternal happiness, which is described in the second part of each individual beatitude.
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Peeters Publishers Meister Eckhart, The German Works: 56 Homilies
Book SynopsisThis volume (based on Loris Sturlese’s liturgical ordering) contains the vernacular texts and English translations of 56 of Eckhart’s German sermons, which can be linked with the cycle of preaching during the liturgical year on the Saints and other occasions (De sanctis). It is the second volume, following ETS 9 (De tempore), and gives us Eckhart’s preaching in literary form. The corpus of sermons that have been relocated into their liturgical place are taken from the critical edition of Kohlhammer to which was added a new English translation (for some of the sermons the first so in English). It opens a door to students and interested readers into the world of Eckhart’s liturgical preaching, helped by a thorough general introduction on the topic of sainthood, short prefaces to all homilies and notes.
£128.18
Peeters Publishers Meister Eckhart and Thomas of Erfurt: Modism and
Book SynopsisMeister Eckhart and Thomas of Erfurt lived streets away from one another. Thomas was the last great figure of the Modistae, the speculative grammarians who were concerned with the relationship between grammar and ontology, the structure of the sentence mirroring the structure of the world. Thomas’ major work – the Grammatica speculativa – was deeply influential in the medieval period. But does Thomas’ geographical proximity to Eckhart suggest a concomitant influence of modism on his thought? What of modism’s legacy after the rapid demise of the grammatical theory in the early-mid fourteenth century? The contributions to this volume deal with these matters, and were originally presented at the ‘Meister Eckhart and Thomas of Erfurt’ conference at the Max-Weber-Center at the University of Erfurt, 14-15 November 2013.
£85.00
Peeters Publishers Les écrits anti-sarrasins de Pierre le Vénérable:
Book SynopsisLes écrits anti-sarrasins de Pierre le Vénérable ont d’emblée été voulus comme des ouvrages de controverse, ancrés dans le sillage de la traduction latine que leur responsable commanda du Coran et de documents symptomatiques de la religion coranique, dont l’objectif affiché ne souffre aucune nuance : informer pour réfuter, pourfendre, extirper le mal d’une confession hérésio-diabolique. L’entreprise témoigne d’un authentique effort, sans précédent aucun, de connaissance et d’analyse, honnête et perspicace dans la mesure de la fidélité de sa latinisation, pour rendre inattaquable le dossier à charge qu’il constitue dans le procès sans véritable plaidoirie de la foi musulmane. Il s’agit d’acculturer pour rejeter et exclure, de transmettre pour démettre. Visible et identifiable, l’ennemi n’en est que plus vincible. L’orthodoxie porte en son nom sa rigidité ; il faut y céder sans dévier et veiller à éradiquer la moindre plaie qui peut l’entamer plus avant, afin d’endiguer en même temps tout autre dessein hégémonique.
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Peeters Publishers Meister Eckhart, The Latin Works: «Sermones et
Book SynopsisThis monograph provides the first English translation and commentary on the two Sermons and Lectures Meister Eckhart gave as Prior Provincial to his first Provincial Chapter of the German Dominicans of Saxony soon after his return from his first stay in Paris as Magister. The introduction considers the provenance of the text and seeks to give insight into the nature of his expository work which is quite alien to the modern scriptural exegete. In addition, it highlights the main ideas addressed in the texts in order that they might be stepping stones in the reader’s journey through the sermons and lectures. The commentary seeks to address these key ideas, some of Eckhart’s characteristic examples as well as noting his creative use of language. Eckhart’s thoughts are placed within the context of his time, noting the different influences on him from Augustine, various Church Fathers, the Neo-Platonists, Pseudo-Dionysius and Aquinas as well as Jewish and Islamic theologians. In addition, it will highlight areas where his originality can be seen, and others where he could be and was misunderstood.
£70.00