Against the backdrop of sovereignty and absolutism : : the theology of God's power and its bearing on the Western legal tradition, 1100-1600 / / by Massimiliano Traversino Di Cristo.

• Superior document: History of science and medicine library
• VerfasserIn: Traversino, Massimiliano,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: History of science and medicine library.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 pages)

This book attempts to determine the degree to which the modern fate of the Western legal tradition depends on one of the most long-standing debates of the Middle Ages, the distinction between potentia Dei absoluta and ordinata (God's absolute and ordered power). The mediaeval investigation into...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. A Normative History of Power:
• The Distinction between potentia Dei absoluta and ordinata
• 2. The Theology of God's Power as an Archaeology of the Modern Notion of Power
• 3. The Classic Age of the Distinction: The Pontificate of John XXII (1316-34)
• 4. The Distinction in the Early-Modern Era:
• Bruno, Gentili, and the Sixteenth-Century Debate on Native Americans
• 5. Gentili's Religion and the Secularization of the Theology of God's Power
• Conclusion
• Appendix
• List of Works Cited
• Index of Names.