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Book SynopsisThis volume collects essays which are thematically connected through the work of Kent Emery Jr., to whom the volume is dedicated. A main focus lies on the attempts to bridge the gap between mysticism and a systematic approach to medieval philosophical thought. The essays address a wide range of topics concerning (a) the nature of the human soul (in philosophical and theological discourse); (b) medieval theories of cognition (natural and supernatural), self-knowledge and knowledge of God; (c) the human soul’s contemplation of, and union with, God; (d) the tradition of “the modes of theology” in the Middle Ages; (e) the relation between philosophy and theology. Various articles are dedicated to major figures of the 13th and 14th century philosophy, others display new material based on critical editions. Contributors are Jan A. Aertsen, Stephen Brown, Bernardo Carlos Bazán, William J. Courtenay, Alfredo Santiago Culleton, Silvia Donati, Bernd Goehring, Guy Guldentops, Daniel Hobbins, Roberto Hofmeister Pich, Georgi Kapriev, Steven P. Marrone, Stephen M. Metzger, Timothy B. Noone, Mikolaj Olszewski, Alessandro Palazzo, Garrett R. Smith, Andreas Speer, Carlos Steel, Loris Sturlese, Chris Schabel, Christian Trottmann, and Gordon A. Wilson.
Table of ContentsEditorial Preface and Acknowledgements List of Contributors Curriculum vitae Kent Emery, Jr. Publications by Kent Emery, Jr. Introduction Part 1 Conceptual Approaches 1 Les notions de puissance et d’ harmonie chez Porphyre Stephen Gersh 2 La philosophie comme considération, la contemplation et ses moyens selon Bernard de Clairvaux Christian Trottmann 3 Contemplation and Philosophy: A Historical and Systematic Approach Andreas Speer 4 The Two “Late Middle Ages” William J. Courtenay 5 Die scotische Unterscheidung von Essenz und Energie bei Georgios Scholarios und die inneren Quellen der palamitischen Tradition Georgi Kapriev Part 2 Struggling with Philosophy 6 What a Philosopher May Learn from Theologians. Albert the Great on the Principles of Movement in Humans (De anima III, 9–11) Carlos Steel 7 Dreams and Divinatory Dreams in Albert the Great’s Liber de somno et vigilia Silvia Donati 8 Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon and the Magicians on the Power of Words Steven P. Marrone 9 Can It be Proved, Following Thomas’s Philosophical Principles, That the Human Soul is Naturally Incorruptible? Bernardo Carlos Bazán 10 Henry of Ghent on Knowledge, Remembrance, and the Order of Cognitive Acts: The Problematic Legacy of Thomas Aquinas Bernd Goehring Part 3 Understanding Theology 11 The Parts of Henry of Ghent’s Quaestiones Ordinariae (Summa) Gordon A. Wilson 12 A Thomist Facing the Challenge of Henry of Ghent. An Edition and Study of Distinction 2 from James of Metz’s Commentary on Book I of the Sentences Mikołaj Olszewski Iacobus Metensis, Quaestiones in I Librum Sententiarum Distinctio 2 13 James of Metz’s Lectura on the Sentences Chris Schabel Tabula Quaestionum 14 Peter Aureoli’s Various Uses of Averroes to Illustrate the Sapiential Character of Declarative Theology Stephen Brown Part 4 The First Known 15 Primum cognitum at the End of the 13th Century: Raymundus Rigaldus and Duns Scotus Timothy B. Noone Raymundus Rigaldus, Quaestiones disputatae, qq. 1–3 (Ex codice Todi, Bibl. commun., Ms. 98, f. 51rb et seq. = T) 16 Esse consecutive cognitum: A Fourteenth-Century Theory of Divine Ideas Garrett R. Smith ⟨Iacobi de Aesculo⟩ ⟨Quaestio ordinaria 4⟩ | Quaeritur utrum notitia actualis creaturae praesupponatur in Deo notitiae habituali eiusdem Part 5 Meister Eckhart’s Legacy 17 More Than One Eckhart? The Parisian Eckhart and the ‘Opus tripartitum’—The Need for a More Homogeneous Picture of His Thought Jan A. Aertsen (†) 18 Eckhart and the Power of the Imagination Alessandro Palazzo 19 Locutio emphatica: Argumentative Strategies in Meister Eckhart’s German Sermons Loris Sturlese Part 6 Mystical Theology and Contemplation 20 The Tractatus de mistica theologia by Ioannes de Indagine, O.Cart († 1475) Stephen M. Metzger Ioannis de Indagine Tractatus de mistica theologia 21 A Newly Discovered Recension of Gerson’s Annotatio doctorum aliquorum qui de contemplatione locuti sunt: Evidence for Gerson’s Reading of De imitatione Christi? Daniel Hobbins Appendix A: Contents of Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek, Hs. 763 Appendix B: Annotatio quorundam doctorum qui de contemplatione locuti sunt. Venerabilis magistri Johannis Gerson Part 7 Prospects of the Second Scholastic 22 Alfonso Briceño O.F.M. (1587–1668) on John Duns Scotus’s Metaphysical Groundworks of Theology: The Controversies on Infinity Roberto Hofmeister Pich 23 Antonio Ruiz de Montoya’s Firestone of Divine Love (Sílex del divino amor): The Spiritual Journey of a Jesuit among the Guaraní Alfredo Santiago Culleton 24 Hyacinthe de Chalvet on Beauty—Keeping Up Anti-Scholastic Appearances Guy Guldentops Index codicum Index nominum
