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From Eternal to Everlasting
The Middle Ages witnessed a shift in thinking about the way God is related to time. For most of the earlier Middle Ages, scholars had followed an earlier patristic tradition of describing God as eternal and thus as timeless or outside of time. In the early thirteenth century, however, members of the Franciscan order, who played a significant role in the development of the recently-founded universities, re-defined God’s relationship to time in terms of his everlastingness. On their account, God is infinite in temporal duration, rather than simply ’timeless’, since he has no beginning and no end. So construed, God encompasses and is able to relate to every moment in time in a way that the Franciscans believed was not possible on the eternalist account. This book will discuss some of the factors that contributed to their shift in thinking about God as everlasting instead of eternal. Among these, the book will identity a transition in defining the basic nature of God as either simple (for proponents of eternity) or infinite (for proponents of everlastingness) as well as the Franciscan adoption of the metaphysics of the eleventh-century Islamic philosopher, Avicenna.
Time - Just the Tip of the Iceberg
The recurring theme, Augustine and Time, holds sway in both academic and popular works. However, most of the efforts focus on his Confessions XI, unfortunately, neglecting the rest of his corpus. Even in a cursory reading of it, a twin factor stands out and it permeates the entire corpus: The cluster of temporal notions he uses holds many more beyond the concepts of time and eternity and, its being posited in the cognition of the human mind. This serendipitous observation necessitates a hermeneutical probe into the inextricable link between temporal notions and human cognition. Taking the untrodden path, this probe begins with an analysis of Augustine’s conversion narrative, since the inse...
Wisdom in Bonaventure's Hexaëmeron
This book presents Saint Bonaventure as a cutting-edge thinker who engaged with natural philosophy on its own terms. His final academic project was an unfinished collection of scholastic sermons titled Collationes in Hexaëmeron. At this moment in history, academics were clashing over the limits of cognition and the definition of science (scientia). Much has been written detailing how the incorporation of Aristotle's philosophy into university curricula eventually prompted the Condemnations of 1270 and 1277. But perhaps it is incorrect to conceive of these events in a frame of escalating tensions leading to collapse. Perhaps a new perspective can be found by venturing back to 1273, to see Ar...
Struggle for Freedom
The study presents ways of structuring civil codes on the basis of selected codifications from Central and Eastern Europe since the end of 18th century until the modern times. In five chapters the author depicts the arrangement of an possible general part, of the law of obligations, of ius in re, of family law and the law of persons as well as of inheritance law. The focus of the study is searching the most commmon systematic patterns and the main differences between the socialist and bourgeois codifications.
Christus und Geschichte
Obwohl Joseph Ratzingers Habilitationsschrift bereits in den 1950er Jahren verfasst wurde, lag sie erst 2009 vollständig der Öffentlichkeit vor. In seiner zweiten Qualifikationsarbeit beschäftigt sich Ratzinger mit der Geschichtstheologie Bonaventuras, in der der Christozentrismus den theologischen Schwerpunkt bildet. Ausgehend von den Einflüssen der Geschichtstheologie Bonaventuras wird in dieser Arbeit gezeigt, dass auch Ratzingers Geschichtstheologie christozentrisch ist. Die christozentrische Geschichtsdeutung bildet den Ausgangspunkt für Ratzingers Kritik an anderen Geschichtstheologien des 20. Jahrhunderts.
The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480–1650)
In The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480–1650) Marianne Ritsema van Eck analyses the development of the complex Observant Franciscan engagement with the Holy Land during the early modern period. During these eventful centuries friars of the Franciscan establishment in Jerusalem increasingly sought to cultivate strong ideological ties between themselves and the Holy Land, participating actively in contemporary literatures of geographia sacra and Levantine pilgrimage and travel. It becomes clear how the friars constructed a collective memory using the ideological canon of their order – featuring Bonaventurian theology, marvels of the east, cartography, apocalyptic visions of history, calls for Crusade, and finally a pilgrimage-possessio of the Holy Land by Francis.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
The presentation of the life and work of any great thinker is a formidable task, even for a renowned scholar. This is all the more the case when such a historical figure is a saint and mystic, such as Friar Thomas Aquinas. In this volume, Fr. Jean-Pierre Torrell, OP, masterfully takes up the strenuous task of presenting such a biography, providing readers with a detailed, scholarly, and profound account of the thirteenth-century theologian whose works have not ceased to draw the attention of both friend and foe! In this volume, Fr. Torrell, an internationally renowned expert on St. Thomas, speaks to neophytes and experts alike: for those new to Thomas’s works, he paints an engaging human portrait of Friar Thomas in his historical context; for specialists, he provides a rigorous scholarly account of contemporary research concerning Thomas’s life and work. This new edition of Fr. Torrell’s widely-lauded text involved significant revision, expansion, and bibliographical updates in light of the latest scholarship. The Catholic University of America Press is pleased to present such an eminent specialist’s mature synthesis concerning Friar Thomas Aquinas.
