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Author Vater, Carl A., author.

Title God's knowledge of the world : medieval theories of divine ideas from Bonaventure to Ockham / Carl A. Vater.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2022]

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Contents Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: The Imitability Theory of Divine Ideas -- Chapter I: St. Bonaventure (ca. 1217-1274) -- Chapter II: St. Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1224/1225-1274) -- Chapter III: Henry of Ghent (before 1240-1293) -- Part II: The Infinite Intellect Theory of Divine Ideas -- Chapter IV: Peter John Olivi (ca. 1248-1298) and Petrus de Trabibus (fl. 1290s) -- Part III: The Obiectum Cognitum Theory of Divine Ideas -- Chapter V: James of Viterbo (ca. 1255-1308) -- Part IV: The Creatura Intellecta Theory of Divine Ideas
Chapter VI: Richard of Mediavilla (ca. 1249-1302) -- Chapter VII: Bl. John Duns Scotus (ca. 1265-1308) -- Chapter VIII: Early Thomists and Scotists -- Part V: The Nominalist Theory of Divine Ideas -- Chapter IX: Peter Auriol (ca. 1280-1322) -- Chapter X: William of Ockham (ca. 1285-1347) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "God's Knowledge of the World examines theories of divine ideas from approximately 1250-1325 AD (St. Bonaventure through Ockham). It is the only work dedicated to categorizing and comparing the major theories of divine ideas in the Scholastic period. A theory of divine ideas was the standard Scholastic response to the question how does God know and produce the world? A theory was deemed to be successful only if it simultaneously upheld that God has perfect knowledge and that he is supremely simple and one. These questions cause the Scholastic authors to articulate clearly, among other things, their positions on the nature of knowledge, relation, exemplar causality, participation, infinity, and possibility. An author's theory of divine ideas, then, is the locus for him to test the coherence of his metaphysical, epistemological, and logical principles"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject God (Christianity) -- Omniscience -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Scholasticism.
Scholasticism.
United States.
Chronological Term 600-1500
Other Form: Print version: 9780813235547 0813235545 (DLC) 2022033773 (OCoLC)1288410936
ISBN 9780813235554 (electronic book)
0813235553 (electronic book)
9780813235547
0813235545