Mathematical theologies : Nicholas of Cusa and the legacy of Thierry of Chartres / David Albertson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albertson, David, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in historical theology.

Oxford Studies in Historical Theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pythagoras--Influence.

Pythagoras.

Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464.

Nicholas.

Thierry, de Chartres, approximately 1100-approximately 1150.

Thierry.

Religion and science.

Mathematics--Philosophy.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (513 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The writings of theologians Thierry of Chartres (d. 1157) and Nicholas of Cusa (d. 1464) represent a lost history of momentous encounters between Christianity and Pythagorean ideas before the Renaissance. Their robust Christian Neopythagoreanism reconceived the Trinity and the Incarnation within the framework of Greek number theory, challenging our contemporary assumptions about the relation of religion and modern science. David Albertson surveys the slow formation of theologies of the divine One from the Old Academy through ancient Neoplatonism into the Middle Ages. Against this backdrop, Thi

Contents:

Cover; Mathematical Theologies; Series; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Cusanus Studies and "Modernity"; Rethinking the Mathesis Narrative; Thierry of Chartres as a Cusan Source; Some Notes on Method; PART ONE The Genesis of Neopythagoreanism; 1 Platonic Transformations of Early Pythagorean Philosophy; Mathematics as Philosophy in Philolaus and Archytas; Mathematics as Mediation in Plato; Mediation and First Philosophy in the Early Academy; 2 The Neopythagorean Revival: Henology and Mediation; The Origins of Henology in Eudorus and Moderatus

Henology on the Margins of Middle PlatonismMathematical Theology in Nicomachus of Gerasa; 3 The Late Antique Preservation of Neopythagoreanism; Iamblichus, Proclus, and the Legacy of Nicomachus; Augustine and the Number without number; Boethius and the Fate of the Quadrivium; PART TWO The Pearl Diver; 4 Thierry's Trinitarian Theology in Context; The Status of Mediation in Twelfth-Century Platonism; The Problem of Bernard's Gloss; Thierry on Quadrivium and Trinity; 5 The Discovery of the Fold; Attempts at a Universal Theory of Science; The Achievement of the Modal Theory

A New Foundation for Mathematical TheologyThe Word as Number and Angle; 10 Completing the Circle in the 1460s; New Impulses in the Late Works; Incarnation and Neopythagoreanism; Figurae mundi; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-306-64124-1

0-19-938490-8

OCLC:

878263499