Measure of a Different Greatness: The Intensive Infinite, 1250-1650
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This volume examines a selection of late medieval works devoted to the intensive infinite in order to draw a comprehensive picture of the context, character and importance of scholastic efforts to reason philosophically about divine infinity. As Dominican masters face Franciscan 'spirituals' and as university-trained theologians face evangelical laymen, the purpose and meaning of divine infinity shift, reflecting a basic tension between the Church's Petrine vocation for geopolitical orthodoxy and its more Pauline mission to promote Christian orthopraxis. The first part of the book traces the scholastic defense of divine infinity from the holocaust of Montsigur up to John Duns Scotus. The second part examines the semiotic breakthrough initiated by William of Ockham and the subsequent penetration of infinist theory into a wide variety of disciplines.
Book Details
ISBN-13: 9789004114814
EAN: 9789004114814
Publisher Date: 24 Jun 1999
Dewey: 111.6
Illustration: Y
LCCN: 99029174
No of Pages: 438
Series Title: English
Width: 160 mm
ISBN-10: 9004114815
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Binding: Hardcover
Height: 241 mm
Language: English
MediaMail: Y
PrintOnDemand: N
Spine Width: 34 mm