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Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus
Boyd Taylor Coolman
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Description for Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus
Hardback. This volume provides the first full study of Thomas Gallus (d. 1246) in English and represents a significant advance in his distinctive theology. Series: Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HBLC1; HRAX; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 222 x 2. Weight in Grams: 458.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Series
Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199601769
SKU
V9780199601769
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About Boyd Taylor Coolman
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus
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.
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