Measure of a different greatness : the intensive infinite, 1250-1650 / by Anne Ashley Davenport.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davenport, Anne Ashley, author.

Series:

Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Volume 11.

Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Band 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Infinite--History.

Infinite.

Philosophy, Medieval.

God--Attributes.

God.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston ; Koln : Brill, [1999]

Summary:

This volume examines a selection of late medieval works devoted to the intensive infinite in order to draw a comprehensive picture of the context, character and importance of scholastic efforts to reason philosophically about divine infinity. As Dominican masters face Franciscan 'spirituals' and as university-trained theologians face evangelical laymen, the purpose and meaning of divine infinity shift, reflecting a basic tension between the Church's Petrine vocation for geopolitical orthodoxy and its more Pauline mission to promote Christian orthopraxis. The first part of the book traces the scholastic defense of divine infinity from the holocaust of Montségur up to John Duns Scotus. The second part examines the semiotic breakthrough initiated by William of Ockham and the subsequent penetration of infinist theory into a wide variety of disciplines.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Anne Ashley Davenport

Acknowledgments / Anne Ashley Davenport

Preface / Anne Ashley Davenport

Chapter One In the Shadow of Montségur / Anne Ashley Davenport

Chapter Two Thomas Aquinas and the Six-Winged Seraph / Anne Ashley Davenport

Chapter Three Infinity and Totality in Henry of Ghent / Anne Ashley Davenport

Chapter Four Barefoot for an Infinite God / Anne Ashley Davenport

Chapter Five Spiritual Sword and Spiritual Quanta / Anne Ashley Davenport

Chapter Six Mirrors and Signs - The Modern Way to Infinity (I) / Anne Ashley Davenport

Chapter Seven Mirrors and Signs - The Modern Way to Infinity (II) / Anne Ashley Davenport

Conclusion / Anne Ashley Davenport

Bibliography / Anne Ashley Davenport

Index / Anne Ashley Davenport

Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters / Anne Ashley Davenport.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [421]-435) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-45287-7

OCLC:

1281956991

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004452879 DOI