God's knowledge of the world : medieval theories of divine ideas from Bonaventure to Ockham / Carl A. Vater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vater, Carl A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scholasticism.

God (Christianity)--Omniscience--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

God (Christianity).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The Catholic University of America Press, [2022]

Summary:

"God's Knowledge of the World examines theories of divine ideas from approximately 1250-1325 AD (St. Bonaventure through Ockham). It is the only work dedicated to categorizing and comparing the major theories of divine ideas in the Scholastic period. A theory of divine ideas was the standard Scholastic response to the question how does God know and produce the world? A theory was deemed to be successful only if it simultaneously upheld that God has perfect knowledge and that he is supremely simple and one. These questions cause the Scholastic authors to articulate clearly, among other things, their positions on the nature of knowledge, relation, exemplar causality, participation, infinity, and possibility. An author's theory of divine ideas, then, is the locus for him to test the coherence of his metaphysical, epistemological, and logical principles"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: The Imitability Theory of Divine Ideas

Chapter I: St. Bonaventure (ca. 1217-1274)

Chapter II: St. Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1224/1225-1274)

Chapter III: Henry of Ghent (before 1240-1293)

Part II: The Infinite Intellect Theory of Divine Ideas

Chapter IV: Peter John Olivi (ca. 1248-1298) and Petrus de Trabibus (fl. 1290s)

Part III: The Obiectum Cognitum Theory of Divine Ideas

Chapter V: James of Viterbo (ca. 1255-1308)

Part IV: The Creatura Intellecta Theory of Divine Ideas

Chapter VI: Richard of Mediavilla (ca. 1249-1302)

Chapter VII: Bl. John Duns Scotus (ca. 1265-1308)

Chapter VIII: Early Thomists and Scotists

Part V: The Nominalist Theory of Divine Ideas

Chapter IX: Peter Auriol (ca. 1280-1322)

Chapter X: William of Ockham (ca. 1285-1347)

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Vater, Carl A. God's Knowledge of the World

ISBN:

9780813235554

OCLC:

1357017217