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Doubting Thomas: Aquinas on Doubt and the Act of Faith

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 310-330, July 2025.
Abstract Several modern theologians affirm that doubt is compatible with faith, even as authoritative voices from the Christian tradition deny this. While Thomas Aquinas is often seen as an exemplar of the traditional view, few scholars have devoted serious attention to the nature of doubt in Thomas’ thought.
Patrick X. Gardner
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Mellan ideal och praktik

Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning
Theme: The Children’s Library Saga and the Swedish Teachers’ Magazine’s Publishing House. Logo: The Swedish Institute for Children's Books Between Ideals and Practice: Barnbiblioteket Saga and the “Indian Books” – the Example of Den siste ...
Ulf Boëthius
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Beauty, Ethics and Numbers in Boethius’ Quadrivial Treatises

Aisthesis, 2018
The convergence of the Neoplatonic/Neopythagorean approach with the Aristotelian organization of the sciences is one of the most interesting features that characterizes the two influential mathematical treatises on On Arithmetics (De institutione ...
Cecilia Panti
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The Common Nature of Space and Time [PDF]

Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences, 2019
The term quadrivium refers to the study of arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy. The Pythagoreans referred to the study of number which are Arithmetic (Number in itself), Music (Number in time), Geometry (Number in space) and Astronomy (Number in
Prince A. Wells, III
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Kenelm Digby's logic of common and natural notions

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 157-173, June 2025.
Abstract In this article, I take a fresh look at the logic of common and natural notions contained in the Two Treatises published in 1644 by Kenelm Digby (1603–1665). Digby's doctrine of common notions was an attempt to retrofit Aristotelianism in order to bring it out of the shadows of scholasticism and into the age of the new experimental and ...
Mogens Lærke
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Per dynamin – per energian: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 220-243, May 2025.
This paper investigates Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek. It proceeds from three questions. First, what resources for learning Greek were available in tenth‐century Germany? Second, were there any figures in her ambit from whom she could have learned?
Graham Robert Johnson
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"Hemma längar jag bort, borta längtar jag hem." Andra världskrigets finska krigsbarn i svensk barn- och ungdomslitteratur

Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning, 2010
During and after the Second World War Sweden received around 70 000 Finnish war children. It was by far the biggest of all contingents of refugees during the war.
Ulf Boëthius
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Clocks, Time and Omniscience [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī
I suggest there is no such thing as “time itself.” I use this term in the same sense that philosophers of time use it. One has said, “It is important not to confuse the actual physical clock that measures time with time itself, ….” This paper is ...
Russell Belding
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Place as a Metaphysical Problem in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 292-310, April 2025.
Abstract Thomas Aquinas’ particular synthesis of Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism, and the intellectual tradition it inaugurated, has at least twice faced critical challenges from developments in physics. Besieged by the sixteenth and seventeenth century novatores and more or less ignored by the nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century practitioners of ...
Onsi Aaron Kamel
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The Harmonious Soul and the Defence of Music in Sixteenth‐Century England

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 201-215, April 2025.
Abstract This article examines the history of the concept of the soul as a harmony—as opposed to merely being like a harmony—in sixteenth‐century England, demonstrating how debates over music's morality in sixteenth‐century England were a catalyst for theorising an increasing affinity between music and the soul.
Katherine Butler
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