A Christian in toga : : Boethius : interpreter of antiquity and Christian theologian / / Claudio Moreschini.

• VerfasserIn: Moreschini, Claudio,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany ;, Bristol, Connecticut : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English; German
• Series: Beiträge zur Europäischen Religionsgeschichte (BERG)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (157 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Boethius is apparently the first Christian writer who was not engaged in dogmatic and theological problems from an ecclesiastical point of view. Boethius hadn't any ecclesiastical office, but was engaged in politics under King Theoderic in Italy, and from his youth he had devoted himself to Aristotelian and Platonic philosophy. Some of his medieval commentators noticed the unchristian, simply Platonic character of his philosophy. Claudio Moreschini, on the basis of Boethius' Opuscula Theologica and Consolatio Philosophiae, shows how he combined Christian faith and philosophy in order to solve

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Foreword; 1. Boethius' great cultural project; 1.1 Mathematics; 1.1.1 Arithmetic; 1.1.2 Music; 1.2 Translations of Greek works on logic; 1.3 The theological treatises; 1.4. Boethius' legacy : Cassiodorus; 2. Philosophy and Theology in Boethius' Opuscula Theologica; 2.1 The De fide catholica; 2.1.1 Authenticity; 2.1.2 The doctrines; 2.1.3 The purpose; 2.2 The Contra Eutychen et Nestorium; 2.2.1 The theological problem; 2.2.2 Boethius' solution; 2.2.3 God and matter; 2.2.4 God and action; 2.2.5 God and being

2.2.6 The refutation of Nestorius and of Eutyches2.2.7 Natura and persona; 2.2.8 The human person; 2.2.9 After Boethius: persona according to Deacon Rusticus; 2.2.10 Persona in the Trinity; 2.3 The opuscula on the Trinity; 2.3.1 Utrum Pater; 2.3.2 De sancta Trinitate; 2.4 De hebdomadibus; 2.4.1 Forma essendi; 2.4.2 Participation in God; 2.4.3 Participation in God according to Boethius; 2.4.4 Participation and God's simplicitas; 2.4.5 The problems of participation; 2.4.6 Boethius and Augustine; 2.4.7 Conclusions; 2.4.8 Some observations on the terms of 'being' ; 3. The Consolatio Philosophiae

3.1 Was the Consolatio completed?3.2 The literary genre; 3.3 The prosimetron: poetry in the Consolatio; 3.4 The prosimetron: the Consolatio as a satira; 3.5 A satire as a consolation; 3.6 Who is Philosophy?; 3.7 The structure of the Consolatio; 3.8 De remediis utriusque fortunae (Petrarch); 3.9 Philosophy and Religion in the Consolatio; 3.9.1 The Neo-Platonism of the Consolatio; 3.9.2 The Consolatio and the tradition of Latin Neo-Platonism; 3.9.3 The doctrine of the summum bonum; 3.9.4 God is a monad; 3.9.5 The cosmic soul; 3.9.6 The simplicity of God; 3.9.7 On 'becoming God'

3.9.8 God, the supreme intellect3.9.9 Providence and Fate; 3.9.10 The astral body; 4. Boethius' Christianity; 4.1 Bovo ofCorvey; 4.2 The Anonymus Einsiedlensis; 4.3 Adalboldus of Utrecht; 4.4 Christian faith and philosophy; Bibliography; Selected Sources; Works Cited; Index nominum; Back Cover