Knowing God by Experience : The Spiritual Senses in the Theology of William of Auxerre /
Author of the first true summa of theology, William of Auxerre (d. 1231), early magister at the University of Paris, is considered a seminal figure in early thirteenth-century scholasticism. From the uncertain climate of the late twelfth century, William's Summa Aurea emerges with impressive or...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Catholic University of America Press,
2004.
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Édition: | 1st ed. |
Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- A synaesthetic beatific vision
- The manifold effects of the metaphysical good
- The Trinity as manifold delectable
- Creation : the manifestation of the delectabilia divina
- The virtue of faith : knowledge of God in a visual mode
- The virtue of charity : love of God in a tactile mode
- Symbolic theology : exterior perception of God's effects
- Mystical theology : interior perception of God's effects
- Taste and see : the spiritual senses and the Eucharist
- Conclusion : spiritual apprehension : the spiritual senses and the knowledge of God.