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Author Novotny, Vojtech, author

Title Cur Homo? : a history of the thesis of man as a replacement for fallen angels / Vojtěch Novotný ; English translation by Pavlína and Tim Morgan
Published [Prague, Czech Republic] : Karolinum Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (182 pages) : illustrations, tables
Contents Introduction; I. Origins: the church fathers; 1. Sources; 2. Augustine of Hippo; 3. Before Augustine; 4. Between Augustine and Gregory; 5. Gregory the Great; II. Consolidation: the early middle ages; 1. Eph 1:10; 2. Luke 15:8-10; 3. Luke 2:14; 4. Mark 16:1-7; 5. Rev 11:13; 6. The Missal; 7. Canon law; 8. The tithe; 9. The number of the saved; 10. Other references; III. Crisis: the eleventh and twelfth centuries; 1. Anselm of Canterbury; 2. The school of Laon; 3. Rupert of Deutz; 4. Honorius of Autun ; IV. Decline: the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
1. Authors from the monastic tradition2. Hugh of St. Victor; 3. Summa sententiarum; 4. Alcher of Clairvaux; 5. Peter Lombard; 6. The influence of Lombard's Sententiae; 7. Albert the Great; 8. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio; 9. Thomas Aquinas ; Conclusion; Resume; Bibliography; 1. Abbreviations; 2. Electronic sources; 3. Primary sources; 4. Secondary literature; Index of proper names
Summary This monograph has set itself the goal to examine, outline, elucidate, and supplement the existing body of knowledge concerning a theme from patristic and medieval theology recalled in 1953 by Marie-Dominique Chenu, and that is the assertion that man was created as a replacement for fallen angels (Yves Congar: créature de remplacement; Louis Bouyer: ange de remplacement). The study first shows that the idea of man having being created to take the place of fallen angels was introduced by St. Augustine and developed by other church fathers. It then identifies the typical contexts in which the su
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 21, 2014)
Subject Theological anthropology -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Anthropology.
RELIGION / Christian Theology / Anthropology
Theological anthropology -- Christianity
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Morgan, Pavlína, translator
Morgan, Tim, 1957- translator.
ISBN 9788024625867
8024625865