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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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Keep taking the tablets: how Prudentius’ account of St Cassian shaped medieval school stories
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 503-517, November 2024.In about 400 Prudentius visited the shrine of St Cassian at Imola and wrote a poem describing his martyrdom. Cassian, a schoolmaster, had been killed by his own pupils using their styli and wax tablets. The story was popular throughout the Middle Ages and its medieval reception has attracted attention.
Julia Barrow
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Ostium, 2008 According to Aristotle and the majority of medieval philosophers and theologians metaphysics is based on the analogy of being. It is the only way between two extremes – univocity and equivocity.
Oliver Sitár
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FREE WILL ACCORDING TO JOHN DUNS SCOTUS AND NEUROSCIENCE
Zygon, 2012 . This paper examines two views of free will. It looks first at the fourteenth‐century religious insights of John Duns Scotus, one of history's seminal thinkers about free will.
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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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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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The arguments of John Duns Scotus in defence of Mary’s Immaculate Conception
Biblica et Patristica ThoruniensiaThis article aims to specify the theoretical approaches through which the conspicuous Scottish Franciscan theologian John Duns Scotus (c.1265/66–1308) became the leader of the defenders of the belief in the Virgin Mary’s Immaculate Conception.
J. Salvador-González
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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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