The Medieval MindContent: New Religious Orientation - Christianity: the Formative years - Augustine: God the Creator - Augustine: the Created Universe - Medieval interval - Thomas: Metaphysics - Thomas: Psychology, ethics, Politics - End of the Middle ages. |
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Page 97
... conception of ultimate reality is not the only difficulty in which Augustine's conception of providence is entangled . To say that God is provident means that He is a knower and a doer . To add that God is infinite is to say that He ...
... conception of ultimate reality is not the only difficulty in which Augustine's conception of providence is entangled . To say that God is provident means that He is a knower and a doer . To add that God is infinite is to say that He ...
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... conception of the omnipo- tence of the divine nature . With Augustine it did not issue in scientific achieve- ment for the reasons already examined — he was not really interested in the natural world or its doings , and , except for ...
... conception of the omnipo- tence of the divine nature . With Augustine it did not issue in scientific achieve- ment for the reasons already examined — he was not really interested in the natural world or its doings , and , except for ...
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... conception of the method of physics was naturally determined by his conception of the physical world as a hierarchy of individual substances seeking God . In order to understand the behavior of any particular substance , Thomas thought ...
... conception of the method of physics was naturally determined by his conception of the physical world as a hierarchy of individual substances seeking God . In order to understand the behavior of any particular substance , Thomas thought ...
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Abelard according actually animal argument Aristotle Aristotle's Augustine Augustine's authority Bacon believed body called cause century Christ Christian Church City of God conceived conception course created creature distinction divine doctrine Donatists Duns Duns's Empire essence eternal ethics evil existence experience fact faith Father finite follows Gnostics God's grace Greek held Hence human Ibid individual instance intellect Jesus Jesus movement Jews kind knowledge live Lord man's Manichees matter means medieval merely metaphysical Middle Ages mind Mithraism moral moved movement mystic nature Neoplatonism notion object Occam orthodoxy particular Paul Pelagians perfect philosophical Plato Plotinus point of view possible principle problem Ques question rational reality reason salvation seems sense Socrates soul spirit substance Summa Contra Gentiles Summa Theologica Thee theology theory things Thomas Thomistic Thou thought truth understand universe unmoved mover virtue whole words Yahweh