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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... understand ourselves , we must for better or for worse try to understand Augustine . Finally , and apart from history , there is much that even the most hostile critics will agree we can learn from Augustine . His psychological ...
... understand ourselves , we must for better or for worse try to understand Augustine . Finally , and apart from history , there is much that even the most hostile critics will agree we can learn from Augustine . His psychological ...
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... understanding with that ; but I long to understand in some degree thy truth , which my heart believes and loves . For I do not seek to understand that I may believe , but 51 See p . 187 , n . 36 . 52 This may be contrasted with ...
... understanding with that ; but I long to understand in some degree thy truth , which my heart believes and loves . For I do not seek to understand that I may believe , but 51 See p . 187 , n . 36 . 52 This may be contrasted with ...
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... understand- ing him . Consequently this must be the end of the intelligent creature , namely to understand God . . . Again . The operation proper to a thing is the end thereof : for it is its second perfection ; so that when a thing is ...
... understand- ing him . Consequently this must be the end of the intelligent creature , namely to understand God . . . Again . The operation proper to a thing is the end thereof : for it is its second perfection ; so that when a thing is ...
Contents
The Formative Years | 38 |
John and the Logos Mystery | 50 |
Heresy and Orthodoxy | 60 |
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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