Gerard of Abbeville, Secular Master, on Knowledge, Wisdom and Contemplation

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34237-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 122, 744 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1432 g

Reihe: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters

Gerard of Abbeville (d. 1272) was the foremost secular theologian at the University of Paris during the third quarter of the thirteenth century. Significantly, Gerard’s corpus includes the most comprehensive treatment of the nature and extent of human knowledge from the generation before Henry of Ghent.
Stephen M. Metzger’s study presents Gerard’s complete theory of human knowledge, which is a hierarchy extending from the knowledge acquired in faith, through scientific thought and culminating in the full vision of God by the blessed in patria. It is the fullest exposition of the life, works and thought of Gerard yet written and is augmented by the presentation for the first time of editions of several disputed questions and other texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Metzger, Stephen M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Theologenbiographien, Religiöse Führer

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen M. Metzger, Ph.D. (2013), University of Notre Dame, is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in that university’s Medieval Institute. He was an editor of Philosophy and Theology in the Studia of the Religious Orders and at Papal and Royal Courts (Brepols, 2012).