Intellectual traditions at the medieval university : the use of philosophical psychology in Trinitarian theology among the Franciscans and Dominicans, 1250-1350. Volume one / / by Russell L. Friedman.

• Author: Friedman, Russell L.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Bd. 108/1; Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 108.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1038 p.)
• Notes: Title from PDF title page (viewed on Nov. 6, 2012).

This book traces the rise and decline of two rival intellectual traditions in later-medieval trinitarian theology, one of them predominantly Franciscan, the other predominantly Dominican. Disagreeing about the way to understand the identification in John’s Gospel of the second person of the Trinity, the Son, with the Word, the two traditions clashed over the issues of concepts and concept formation, the category of relation, counterfactual logic, and the use of authority. Considering more than seventy theologians from the period, the book presents an overview of the debate, while also including detailed studies of the trinitarian views of such thinkers as Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, Peter Auriol, William Ockham, Walter Chatton, and Gregory of Rimini.

Table of Contents

pt. I. Emerging Trinitarian traditions, ca. 1250-1280 -- pt. II. The strong use of the phychological model and its opponents, ca. 1280-1320 -- pt. III. The search for simplicity, ca. 1320-1350.