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Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus: Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology

Autor Boyd Taylor Coolman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 ian 2017
Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus provides the first full study of Thomas Gallus (d. 1246) in English and represents a significant advance in his distinctive theology. Boyd Taylor Coolman argues that Gallus distinguishes, but never separates and intimately relates two international modalities in human consciousness: the intellective and the affective, both of which are forms of cognition. Coolman shows that Gallus conceives these two cognitive modalities as co-existing in an interdependent manner, and that this reciprocity is given a particular character by Gallus anthropological appropriation of the Dionysian concept of hierarchy. Because Gallus conceives of the soul as hierarchized on the model of the angelic hierarchy, the intellect-affect relationship is fundamentally governed by the dynamism of a Dionysian hierarchy, which has two simultaneous trajectories: ascending and descending. Two crucial features are noteworthy in this regard: in ascending, firstly, the lower is subsumed by the higher; in descending, secondly, the higher communicates with the lower, according to the nature of the lower. When Gallus posits a higher, affective cognitio above an intellective cognitio at the highest point in the ascent, accordingly, this higher affective form both builds upon and sublimates the lower intellective form. At the same time, this affective cognitio descends back down into the soul, both enriching its properly intellective capacity and also renewing the ascending movement in love. For Gallus, then, in the hierarchized soul a dynamic mutuality between intellect and affect emerges, which he construes as a spiralling motion, by which the soul unceasingly stretches beyond itself, ecstatically, in knowing and loving God.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199601769
ISBN-10: 0199601763
Pagini: 286
Dimensiuni: 141 x 223 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Analytically, Coolman's assessment of Gallus is clear, well written, and engaging, though highly technical, and would likely be a resource for graduate students and professors of theology and philosophy... In sum, this book is highly recommended for both historical and systematic theologians, as well as those interested in medieval Neoplatonic philosophy.

Notă biografică

Boyd Taylor Coolman is Associate Professor of Theology at Boston College. His research interests are in the history of Christian theology, particularly in the medieval period. He is especially interested in the life and thought of the Victorines in the first half of the twelfth century and in developments in early thirteenth-century scholastic theology at the Universities of Paris and Oxford. His publications include The Theology of Hugh of St. Victor: An Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Knowing God by Experience: The Spiritual Senses in the Theology of William of Auxerre (Catholic University of America, 2016).