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Author Marrone, S. P

Title Light of Thy countenance : Science and knowledge of God in the thirteenth century
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (633 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; Sigla; Introduction; Chapter One: Certitude of Knowledge; Chapter Two: The Origin of Knowledge and its Reference; Chapter Three: Knowledge of Immutable Truth; Chapter Four: Mind's Road to God; Chapter Five: Truth and the Certitude of Knowledge; Chapter Six: The Object of Knowledge and the Noetic Process; Chapter Seven: Immutability of Knowledge and the Cognitive Object; Chapter Eight: A Natural Way to Know God; Chapter Nine: Truth, Certitude and Science; Chapter Ten: Mind's Object and the Road to God; Chapter Eleven: Essence and the Ontology of the Mental Object
Chapter Twelve: Aristotle and Augustine RevisitedChapter Thirteen: Rejection of Illumination and a Worldly Theory of Knowledge; Chapter Fourteen: Noetics and the Critique of Henry's Ontology of Essence; Chapter Fifteen: Fully Natural Knowledge of God; Chapter Sixteen: What about Augustine?; Bibliography of Works Cited; Indices; Index of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z; Index of Places; Index of Subjects; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
Summary This work is about the development of scholastic argumentation in thirteenth-century Europe. It traces the rise of a formal model of science and resulting accommodations in traditional attitudes towards human cognition, especially with regard to the role of divine illumination. Investigated are ten theologians from Robert Grosseteste to Duns Scotus, all commonly associated with a so-called Augustinian current. The analysis focuses on theory of knowledge and of mind, relating both to the account of human understanding of divinity in the world. Of interest to historians of medieval culture and hi
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Subject God -- Knowableness -- History of doctrines.
Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) -- History
Religion and science -- History.
Thirteenth century.
God -- Knowableness -- History of doctrines
Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
Religion and science
Thirteenth century
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047400660
9047400666