Knowledge, love, and ecstasy in the theology of Thomas Gallus / Boyd Taylor Coolman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coolman, Boyd Taylor, 1966- author.

Series:

Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Gallus, -1246--Criticism and interpretation.

Thomas.

Thomas, Gallus, -1246.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 270 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Knowledge, love, and ecstasy in the theology of Thomas Gallus" provides the first full study of Thomas Gallus (d. 1246) in English and represents a significant advance in his distinctive theology. Boyd Taylor Coolman argues that Gallus distinguishes, but never separates and intimately relates two "interntional modalities" in human consciousness: the intellective and the affective. Both of these are for Gallus quite explicitly forms of cognition. Coolman shows that Gallus conceives these two cognitive modalities as co-exisiting in a mutally and reciprocally interdependent manner and that this interdependence is given a particular character by Gallus' anthropological appropriation of the Dionysian concept of hierarchy.

Contents:

Part I Foundations and Structures

1 Pleromatic and Ecstatic Trinity 31

2 Plethoric Diffusion in Creation 56

3 Receptive and Ecstatic Human Nature 74

Part II Ascending

4 "Lingering in the Dominions" 107

5 "Becoming a Throne for God" 126

6 "Ever)' Kind of Knowledge" 138

7 "The Wisdom of Christians" 159

Part III Descending

8 "As Oil Poured Forth" 199

Part IV Remaining

9 "Remaining in Blessed Intoxication" 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index.

ISBN:

0199601763

9780199601769

OCLC:

953423653