A companion to medieval Christian humanism : : essays on principal thinkers / / edited by John P. Bequette.

A Companion to Medieval Christian Humanism explores the perennial questions of Christian humanism as these emerge in the writings of key medieval thinkers, questions pertaining to the dignity of the human person, the human person’s place in the cosmos, and the moral and educational ideals involved i...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherland ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 69.
Physical Description:1 online resource (362 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Augustine: Foundations in Christian Humanism / David P. Fleischacker
  • The Six Ages of History and the Renewal of the Human Person: Christian Humanism in Bede’s Gospel Homilies
  • The Christian Humanism of Anselm of Canterbury / Benjamin Brown
  • The Humanism of William of Saint-Thierry / Aage Rydstrøm-Poulsen
  • Abelard’s Christian Socratism / Eileen Sweeney
  • “Bodily Need is a Kind of Speech”: Human Dignity and Bodily Necessity According to Bernard of Clairvaux / David Appleby
  • The Soul’s Reformation and the Arts in Hugh of St. Victor: A Book Written Twice Without / Andrew Salzmann
  • Peter Lombard and the imago Trinitatis / John T. Slotemaker
  • Conceiving the Soul: Aelred of Rievaulx and the Sanctifying Labor of the Mind / J. Stephen Russell
  • Imago Dei: Nature, Grace, and Glory According to Thomas Aquinas / Benjamin Smith
  • Bonaventure’s Collationes in Hexäemeron: An Apologetic for Christian Humanism / C. Colt Anderson
  • Dante and the Human Identity: A Transformation from Grace to Grace / Nancy Enright
  • Feminality as a Positive Perfection and the Active Participation of Women in Generativity in the Philosophical Theology of John Duns Scotus / Richard H. Bulzacchelli
  • John Wyclif and Christian Humanism / Ian Christopher Levy
  • Christian Humanism, Theandric Existence: Christology, Atonement, and the Wisdom of Love in Julian of Norwich / J. A. Jackson
  • References
  • Index.