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Mathematical theologies : Nicholas of Cusa and the legacy of Thierry of Chartres /
Albertson uncovers the lost history of Christianity's encounters with Pythagorean religious ideas before the Renaissance. The writings of Thierry of Chartres (d. 1157) and Nicholas of Cusa (d. 1464) represent a robust Christian Neopythagoreanism that reconceived the Trinity and the Incarnation...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York City :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Oxford studies in historical theology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Mathematical Theologies; Series; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Cusanus Studies and "Modernity"; Rethinking the Mathesis Narrative; Thierry of Chartres as a Cusan Source; Some Notes on Method; PART ONEThe Genesis of Neopythagoreanism; 1Platonic Transformations of Early Pythagorean Philosophy; Mathematics as Philosophy in Philolaus and Archytas; Mathematics as Mediation in Plato; Mediation and First Philosophy in the Early Academy; 2 The Neopythagorean Revival: Henology and Mediation; The Origins of Henology in Eudorus and Moderatus.
- Henology on the Margins of Middle PlatonismMathematical Theology in Nicomachus of Gerasa; 3 The Late Antique Preservation of Neopythagoreanism; Iamblichus, Proclus, and the Legacy of Nicomachus; Augustine and the Number without number; Boethius and the Fate of the Quadrivium; PART TWO The Pearl Diver; 4Thierry's Trinitarian Theology in Context; The Status of Mediation in Twelfth-Century Platonism; The Problem of Bernard's Gloss; Thierry on Quadrivium and Trinity; 5 The Discovery of the Fold; Attempts at a Universal Theory of Science; The Achievement of the Modal Theory.
- Thierry as Neopythagorean Theologian6 Thierry's Diminished Legacy; Confusion about Mediation; An Augustinian Censor; A Late-Medieval Refutation: Word or Number?; PART THREEBright Nearness; 7The Accidental Triumph of De docta ignorantia; A Patchwork of Conflicting Sources; Experiments in Chartrian Theology; The Christological Double Synthesis; 8 Chartrian Theology on Probation in the 1440s; An Agenda for the 1440s in Two Sermons; The Neopythagorean Counterexperiment; Two Paradigms of Mediation; 9 The Advent of Theologia geometrica in the 1450s; The Restoration of Thierry's Modal Theory.
- A New Foundation for Mathematical TheologyThe Word as Number and Angle; 10Completing the Circle in the 1460s; New Impulses in the Late Works; Incarnation and Neopythagoreanism; Figurae mundi; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.