| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; 67
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Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; 67.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preliminary Material / Anne Ashley Davenport -- Acknowledgments / Anne Ashley Davenport -- Preface / Anne Ashley Davenport -- Chapter One In the Shadow of Montségur / Anne Ashley Davenport -- Chapter Two Thomas Aquinas and the Six-Winged Seraph / Anne Ashley Davenport -- Chapter Three Infinity and Totality in Henry of Ghent / Anne Ashley Davenport -- Chapter Four Barefoot for an Infinite God / Anne Ashley Davenport -- Chapter Five Spiritual Sword and Spiritual Quanta / Anne Ashley Davenport -- Chapter Six Mirrors and Signs -- The Modern Way to Infinity (I) / Anne Ashley Davenport -- Chapter Seven Mirrors and Signs -- The Modern Way to Infinity (II) / Anne Ashley Davenport -- Conclusion / Anne Ashley Davenport -- Bibliography / Anne Ashley Davenport -- Index / Anne Ashley Davenport -- Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters / Anne Ashley Davenport. |
| Summary |
This volume examines a selection of late medieval works devoted to the intensive infinite in order to draw a comprehensive picture of the context, character and importance of scholastic efforts to reason philosophically about divine infinity. As Dominican masters face Franciscan 'spirituals' and as university-trained theologians face evangelical laymen, the purpose and meaning of divine infinity shift, reflecting a basic tension between the Church's Petrine vocation for geopolitical orthodoxy and its more Pauline mission to promote Christian orthopraxis. The first part of the book traces the scholastic defense of divine infinity from the holocaust of Montségur up to John Duns Scotus. The second part examines the semiotic breakthrough initiated by William of Ockham and the subsequent penetration of infinist theory into a wide variety of disciplines. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
God -- Attributes.
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Infinite -- History.
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Philosophy, Medieval.
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God -- Attributes. |
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Infinite. |
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Philosophy, Medieval. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Title |
Intensive Infinite, 1250-1650 |
| ISBN |
9004452877 |
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9789004114814 (print) |
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9004114815 |
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9789004452879 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004452879. |
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