Description
Book SynopsisRecounts the remarkable history of efforts by significant medieval thinkers to accommodate the ontology of the Trinity within the framework of Aristotelian logic and ontology
Trade Review"Provides a ground-breaking account of the logic of the Trinity in ten important late-antique and medieval theologians: Augustine, Boethius, Abelard, Gilbert of Poiters, Peter Lombard, Bonaventure, Albert, Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham." -- -Richard Cross University of Notre Dame "The Logic of the Trinity is a learned, logical and well-written history of an idea crucial to the Western medieval mentality--the reasonable belief in the Trinitarian divinity--not a foundation for its truth, which can be had only by means of faith, but as a test for its validity once its truth was believed through faith." -Speculum "A significant contribution to those who would like to know about the doctrine of the Trinity over the medieval period through a concise, focused work on the subject." -- -Hester Gelber Stanford University
