Augustine’s Christological Emphasis in De Trinitate: An Affirmation of the Human Ecology

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Ecology ◽  
De Trinitate

Forma Dat Esse

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-446
Author(s):  
Sylvain Roudaut
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Progressive Decline ◽  
De Trinitate ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

Abstract This paper offers an overview of the history of the axiom forma dat esse, which was commonly quoted during the Middle Ages to describe formal causality. The first part of the paper studies the origin of this principle, and recalls how the ambiguity of Boethius’s first formulation of it in the De Trinitate was variously interpreted by the members of the School of Chartres. Then, the paper examines the various declensions of the axiom that existed in the late Middle Ages, and shows how its evolution significantly follows the progressive decline of the Aristotelian model of formal causality.

Human Ecology in the System of Pedagogical Univer-sity

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
Nuriyat R. Astarkhanova ◽  
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Mariyam M. Adzhieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Ecology ◽  
Univer Sity

Image, Necessity, and Trinitarian Psychology in Anselm and Augustine

2021 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-350
Author(s):  
Reginald M. Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
De Trinitate

This article examines the influence of Augustine’s De Trinitate 9–14 on the concept of foolishness that Anselm develops in the Monologion and Proslogion. Building on Augustine’s understanding of the soul as trinitarian image, I argue that Anselm effectively extends the implications of Augustine’s theological anthropology in such a way that foolishness appears as a denial of the necessary teleological implications of this same trinitarian psychology.

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