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Therese Bonin - Creation as Emanation: The Origin of Diversity in Albert the Greats on the Causes and the Procession of the Universe (Publications in Medieval Studies) - 9780268023515 - V9780268023515
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Creation as Emanation: The Origin of Diversity in Albert the Greats on the Causes and the Procession of the Universe (Publications in Medieval Studies)

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Description for Creation as Emanation: The Origin of Diversity in Albert the Greats on the Causes and the Procession of the Universe (Publications in Medieval Studies) Hardcover. Examining Albert's reading of "The Book of Causes", this text asks: how does he view the relation between faith and reason to identify creation with emanation from God; and how does he understand Platonism and Aristotelianism to find in a 5th-century Neoplatonist the key to Aristotle's meaning. Series: Publications in Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCB; HPJ; HRAB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.

The Liber de causis (De causis et processu universitatis a prima causa), a monotheistic reworking of Proclus’ Elements of Theology, was translated from Arabic into Latin in the twelfth century, with an attribution to Aristotle. Considering this Neoplatonic text a product of Aristotle's school and even the completion of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Albert the Great concluded his series of Aristotelian paraphrases by commenting on it.

To do so was to invite controversy, since accidents of translation had made many readers think that the Liber de causis taught that God made only the first creature, which in turn created the diverse multitude ... Read more

Creation as Emanation examines Albert's reading of the Liber de causis with an eye toward two questions: First, how does Albert view the relation between faith and reason, so that he can identify creation from nothing with emanation from God? And second, how does he understand Platonism and Aristotelianism, so that he can avoid the misreadings of his fellow theologians by finding in a late-fifth-century Neoplatonist the key to Aristotle’s meaning?

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Series
Publications in Medieval Studies
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268023515
SKU
V9780268023515
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About Therese Bonin
Thérèse Bonin is associate professor of philosophy at Duquesne University where she directs the pre-theology program.

Reviews for Creation as Emanation: The Origin of Diversity in Albert the Greats on the Causes and the Procession of the Universe (Publications in Medieval Studies)
“This relatively short, but amply footnoted, work is written in the light of an exhaustive bibliography, and with a meticulous care in establishing the best provisional text of Albert’s commentary on the Liber de causis.” —Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
“A study of an ‘Aristotelian paraphrase’ by the 13th-century German Scholastic philosopher and saint Albert ... Read more

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