Visual Theory

2021 ◽  
pp. 241-256
Author(s):  
Simon Gilson
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Exegesis ◽  
Medieval Theology ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Visual Theory ◽  
Aristotelian Tradition ◽  
Medical Writings

This chapter provides an overview and assessment of Dante’s use of medieval visual theories in his writings. It first surveys his use of the medieval Aristotelian tradition of visual theory in the Convivio, and discusses his reliance on other models of vision in the Vita nova and Rime, including those found both in medical writings and in the works of other poets. The chapter then discusses how, in the Commedia, Dante incorporates a variety of other late medieval discourses about vision into his narrative. Dante does this—it is argued—in carefully structured and stratified ways that often reveal his characteristic syncretism. The poet continues to use neo-Aristotelian theory but also draws upon a rich body of material on seeing found in medieval theology, contemplation, and Biblical exegesis. Particular attention is paid to how these multiple traditions inform the presentation of Dante-character’s own visual experiences throughout the poem.

Late Medieval Theology

2018 ◽  
pp. 66-73
Author(s):  
Gordon A. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Medieval Theology ◽  
Late Medieval

Order and Theology

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
William Bain
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Theoretical Investigation ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
International Order ◽  
Medieval Theology ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Shared Beliefs ◽  
History Of ◽  
Central Claim ◽  
Modern Thinking

This chapter introduces political theology as an approach to interpreting and analysing the idea of order. The central claim is that widely held conceptions of international order, for example, a multitude of states organized in terms of a spontaneous balance of power or relationships self-consciously constructed through will and consent, reflect intellectual commitments that originate in medieval theology. Specifically, the chapter argues that modern thinking about international order is mediated by rival theories of order that arise out of medieval dispute about the nature of God and the extent of his power. Two overriding objectives guide this investigation. The first is to provide a better intellectual history of late medieval and early modern traditions of thought and to illuminate how they shape contemporary thinking about international order. The second is to conduct a theoretical investigation of international order in terms of its presuppositions. This involves interrogating the conditions and assumptions that render the idea of international order intelligible as what it is. Uncovering this theological inheritance repositions widely shared beliefs about the place of theology in modern international thought, the debates that define the theoretical cartography of the field, and the kind of knowledge that explains the idea of international order.

Reflections on Michael Gillespie's Theological Origins of Modernity

2010 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 697-704
Author(s):  
Kirstie M. McClure
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Leo Strauss ◽  
Medieval Theology ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Hans Blumenberg ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Effective Resonances

In The Theological Origins of Modernity, Michael Gillespie has given us a big book. At once learned and lively, it enters the lists not simply of “origins of modernity” stories, but more particularly of those stories that engage the proudly secular and rational self-image of the age. Among the latter, its most explicit interlocutors are Hans Blumenberg and Martin Heidegger, but its effective resonances and dissonances extend, if more subtly, to Karl Löwith, Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, and Amos Funkenstein—and perhaps to the likes of Adorno, Derrida, Deleuze, and others as well. Indeed, in its insistent probing of connections between modern science and late medieval theology, this book is arguably in dialogue not only with a range of continental thinkers, but also with such Anglophone philosophers as Whitehead, Collingwood, and E. A. Burtt.

Jean Gerson after Constance: ‘Via Media et Regia’ as a Revision of the Ockhamist Covenant

1990 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-481
Author(s):  
Mark S. Burrows
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Inner Core ◽  
Medieval Theology ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Scholastic Tradition

Few issues have received as much attention and achieved as little consensus among historians of late medieval theology during the past several generations as the debate over the character of “nominalism.” One thrust of the research from this debate has focused on the theological dimensions of this scholastic tradition: building on the work of Erich Hochstetter, Paul Vignaux, and others, Heiko Oberman discussed this development in the North American arena of scholarship by describing theological concerns as “the inner core of nominalism.”1

Sixteenth-Century Reformed Reception of Aquinas

2021 ◽  
pp. 120-143
Author(s):  
David S. Sytsma
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
Medieval Theology ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Doctrine Of God

The knowledge of Aquinas’ works among Reformed authors of the sixteenth century varies widely from those, such as John Calvin, who rarely cite him, to Peter Martyr Vermigli, who received a doctorate in the via antiqua at Padua and drew heavily on Thomas even after his conversion to Reformed Protestantism. Martin Bucer initiates a trend in the 1530s of placing Thomas among the ‘sounder scholastics’ on account of his Augustinian soteriology. Leading Reformed theologians follow Bucer’s terminology and comparatively positive estimate of Thomas, even while polemicizing against medieval scholasticism and perceived Pelagian tendencies within late medieval theology. By the end of the sixteenth century Reformed theologians regularly cite Thomas favourably, albeit also eclectically. Aquinas’ influence on nascent Reformed orthodoxy, and to a lesser extent earlier theologians, is evident on a wide variety of topics, including prolegomena, biblical hermeneutics, the doctrine of God, predestination, humanity, free will, natural law, and Christology.

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