Thinking through revelation : Islamic, Jewish, and Christian philosophy in the Middle Ages / Robert J Dobie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dobie, Robert J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Medieval.

Revelation.

Philosophy and religion.

Abrahamic religions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The Catholic University of America Press, 2019.

Summary:

Navigating the seemingly competing claims of human reason and divine revelation to truth is without a doubt one of the central problems of medieval philosophy.Medieval thinkers argued a whole gamut of positions on the proper relation of religious faith to human reason.

Contents:

Reason and revelation in the Middle Ages

What is decisive about Averroes's decisive treatise?

Is revelation really necessary? Revelation and the intellect in Averroes and Al-Ghazali

Law, covenant, and intellect in Moses Maimonides's guide of the perplexed

Natura as Creatura: Aquinas on nature as implicit revelation

Why does the unity of the intellect become such a burning issue in medieval thought? Aquinas on human knowing as incarnate knowing

Aquinas on revelation as incarnate divine intellect

The rationality of revelation in three traditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8132-3146-9

OCLC:

1089007517