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FAITH AND REASON: CHARTING THE MEDIEVAL CONCEPT OF THE INFINITE; pp. 3–45 [PDF]
Trames, 2012 The infinite, understood as transcendency, stood in the background of most medieval thinking. Embraced in the early Middle Ages by the concept of universal natural symbolism, which organized the reading of the syntax of natura, the infinite posed new ...
Rein Undusk
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Christ the Mediator and Head of Angels in Calvin's Theology
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 26, Issue 4, Page 367-385, October 2024.Abstract Though Calvin is averse to theological speculation, he is the first to claim that Christ is Mediator and Head of Angels. This often‐overlooked office is present consistently throughout the various editions of the Institutes and can be found in his treatises, commentaries, catechism, and various sermons.
Arthur Rankin
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, 2008 For a Medieval thinker, in addition to positive law, there is another more fundamental law which is known by analyzing our own rational nature and our ultimate end.
Cruz-Cruz, J. (Juan)
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Pursuit of the concept of validity: A dialogue
Theoria, Volume 90, Issue 5, Page 479-491, October 2024.Abstract This is a dialogue between Lisa and Max on Dag Prawitz's work concerning the concept of deductive validity. Lisa first explains Prawitz's criticisms of the presently prevailing non‐epistemic analyses of validity. Then Lisa describes three different ways in which Prawitz attempted to develop an epistemic concept of validity.
Cesare Cozzo
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Descartes on Place and Motion: A Reading through Cartesian Commentaries**
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 179-214, September 2024.Abstract This paper offers a reconstruction of the interpretations of Descartes's ideas of place and motion by Dutch Cartesians (Henricus Regius, Johannes de Raey, Johannes Clauberg, and Christoph Wittich). It does so by focusing on the reading of Descartes's Principia philosophiae (1644) offered, in particular, by the dictated commentaries on it.
Andrea Strazzoni
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 387-411, August 2024.Contradictions over the meaning of adoration (adoratio) in Theodulf of Orléans’ Opus Caroli regis contra synodum have been used to minimize the role of mistranslation in the late eighth‐century Greek–Latin dispute over images. This study, however, scrutinizes the contested meaning of adoration in the original manuscript to expose tensions among ...
Huw Foden
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Exemplar Causality as similitudo aequivoca in Peter Auriol [PDF]
, 2018 The aim of this paper is to discuss the theory of exemplary causality of Peter Auriol (1280-1322). Until at least the late 13th century, medieval authors claim that the world is orderly and intelligible because God created it according to the models ...
Paladini, Chiara
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Theology and Economy ‘after’ Barth
Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 600-625, July 2024.Abstract The relation of theology and economy is a perennial theological challenge. Many contemporary theologians' understanding of this challenge is shaped by Karl Barth's attempt to resolve a set of tensions problematising this relation inherited from figures like Kant and Feuerbach.
Jared Michelson
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Pluralism of forms in the living beings according to John Duns Scotus [PDF]
, 2015 En este trabajo presentamos la posición de Duns Escoto sobre la pluralidad de formas en los seres vivos, siguiendo el desarrollo que formula en sus diferentes escritos. El Doctor Sutil asumirá un nuevo modo de plantear la cuestión, sosteniendo que además
Santiago Mayocchi, Enrique
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Beyond the Polemics: Freedom and Necessity in Plotinus and St Maximus Confessor
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 49-63, January 2024.Abstract Abstract: The aim of this paper is to challenge the prevailing polemic between ‘necessary’ emanation and ‘free’ creation. I begin by arguing for the presence of freedom and volition in the emanationism of Plotinus. I then move on to explore the role of necessity in the creationism of Maximus. In both cases, I rely upon a twofold schematisation
Daniel Heide
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