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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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International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 46-66, January 2025.Abstract Recent work in eschatology has sought to retrieve the doctrine of the beatific vision, one that has served as one of the predominant views of the eschatological life throughout church history. Yet the doctrine has been criticized for its reported marginalization of the human body.
Daniel Lee Hill
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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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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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John Duns Scotus, Franciscan theologian philosopher, a thinker for our times: in place of a biography [PDF]
An overview of the life and intellectual legacy of the Franciscan theologian-philosopher John Duns Scotus (died 1308), sometimes called Scotland's greatest philosopher, draws on the most recent historical scholarship and treatments of his thought.
Tonner, Philip
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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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The possibility of free will: John Duns Scotus and William James on the will [PDF]
, 2006 The two questions that motivate the present inquiry are: is it possible that human beings will freely, and what does free will make possible? John Duns Scotus and William James are two defenders of the possibility of free will, although each has a very ...
Burke, Catherine Margaret
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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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Ioannis Duns Scoti Notabilia super Metaphysicam /
, 2018 "John Duns Scotus' 'Notabilia super Metaphysicam' comprises a series of remarks on Bks. IX and XII of Aristotle's 'Metaphysics.' The extant evidence points to their originally being either marginal notes on Duns Scotus' own copy of the 'Metaphysics' or ...
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