Deus ut tentus vel visus : : die Debatte um die Seligkeit im reflexiven Akt (ca. 1293-1320) / / von Thomas Jeschke.

• Superior document: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Bd. 104
• Author: Jeschke, Thomas.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: German
• Series: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Bd. 104; Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 104.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (880 p.)
• Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis--Universität zu Köln and Universita del Salento, Lecce, 2009.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 1283852160; 9004191887
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: von Thomas Jeschke.

In his Sentences Commentary (published circa 1320), the Carmelite John Baconthorp discusses the question of whether beatitude is a reflexive act. He refers to John of Paris’s view in which beatitude is an act of knowing that we possess God and Durandus of St. Pourçain’s view that it is knowing that we know God. The object of the first is God as possessed (Deus ut tentus) and the second is God as known ( Deus ut visus ). Taking Baconthorp’s account as a starting point, the present study adopts a threefold approach: First it analyzes Baconthorp’s text on its own terms. Next it reconstructs the 13th/14th-century debate on the basis of the original sources. Finally it compares Baconthorp’s narration with the historical positions, drawing further conclusions about Baconthorp’s specific methodology.