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Author Metzger, Stephen M

Title Gerard of Abbeville, Secular Master, on Knowledge, Wisdom and Contemplation (2 Vols)
Published Boston : BRILL, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (758 pages)
Series Studien und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters Ser
Studien und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters Ser
Contents ‎Contents; ‎Acknowledgments; ‎Abbreviations; ‎In apparatu critico; ‎Introduction; ‎A Secular Theologian and the Official Scholasticism of the Thirteenth Century; ‎Chapter 1. A Thirteenth-Century Secular Master; ‎1. Opponent of the Franciscans and Dominicans; ‎2. Gerard's Will and the Support of Secular Masters for the College of Sorbonne; ‎3. Gerard's Will and the Office of a Master of Theology in the Thirteenth Century; ‎4. Conclusion; ‎5. Critical Edition; ‎Chapter 2. The Scholastic Duties of a Secular Master; ‎1. Introduction
‎2. Paris, BNF, Ms. lat. 15906: A Window into a Regent Master's Classroom‎3. A Regent Master's School Where Questions Reign; ‎4. Gerard's Quodlibeta: Ms. lat. 16405 and the Editorial Project of a Secular Master; ‎4.1. Gerard's Personal Copy of His Quodlibeta; ‎5. Conclusion; ‎6. Critical Edition; ‎7. Critical Edition; ‎8. Critical Edition; ‎9. Critical Edition; ‎Chapter 3. The Professionalization of the Theologian and the Nature of His Discipline; ‎1. Gerard of Abbeville and His Inaugural Lectures; ‎1.1. Gerard's Principium in aula; ‎1.2. The Principium resumptum
‎2. What Does It Mean to be a Theologian?‎3. Conclusion; ‎Chapter 4. Gerard of Abbeville and the Nature of Faith; ‎1. Piecing Together Gerard of Abbeville's Conception of Faith; ‎2. The Circulation of Gerard of Abbeville's Arguments among the Franciscans; ‎2.1. Gerard of Abbeville and the Franciscans: A Positive Legacy; ‎2.2. Gerard of Abbeville and the Franciscans: Criticism on the Nature of Faith and Knowledge; ‎Chapter 5. The Relation of the Soul to the Body; ‎1. A Quodlibetal Question on the Eve of the Condemnation of 1270; ‎2. Gerard of Abbeville on the Unicity of the Intellect
‎2.1. The Intellect and Its Creation‎2.2. The Nature of the Soul in the Human Composite; ‎2.3. Merit and Salvation; ‎2.4. Gerard's Response to the Objections of the Philosophers; ‎3. Critical Edition; ‎Chapter 6. Knowledge, Science and Wisdom; ‎1. Existere: Substance and Form of the Body; ‎1.1. The Soul's Relation to the Body; ‎1.2. How the Soul Gives Life to an Organized Organic Body; ‎1.3. The Soul's Twofold Act as Form; ‎2. Intelligere; ‎2.1. The Reception of a Form by an Individuated Intellect; ‎2.2. Active and Passive Parts of the Intellective Soul; ‎2.3. Human Knowledge of Singulars
‎2.4. Intentiones‎3. Abstraction and the Division of the Sciences; ‎3.1. The Gifts of the Holy Spirit; ‎3.2. The Different Types of Knowledge; ‎4. Conclusion; ‎Chapter 7. Illumination: The Guarantor of Certitude and the Facilitator of Wisdom; ‎1. The Need for Illumination: Boethius' De Trinitate Revisited; ‎2. The Criteria for Certitude According to Bonaventure's De scientia Christi; ‎3. Illumination as the Guarantor of Certitude; ‎4. Faith, Reason and Contemplation; ‎5. Conclusion; ‎Chapter 8. Contemplation and Vision; ‎1. The Status of Knowledge in the Beatific Vision; ‎2. Contemplation
Notes ‎2.1. The Relation of Contemplation to Activity
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Subject Gerard, of Abbeville, approximately 1225-1272.
Gerard, of Abbeville, approximately 1225-1272
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004342477
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