Some Later Medieval Theories of the Eucharist: Thomas Aquinas, Gilles of Rome, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham

ISBN-13: 9780199591053 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 288 str.

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Opis

How can the body and blood of Christ, without ever leaving heaven, come to be really present on eucharistic altars where the bread and wine still seem to be? Marilyn McCord Adams examines how this question and its answer engaged 13th and 14th century philosophical theologians.

Recenzje

essential for all interested in the religious and intellectual history of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Stephen Mossman, Medium Aevum

O autorze

Marilyn McCord Adams taught medieval philosophy and philosophy of religion at UCLA for twenty-one years. During this period, she was also ordained an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Los Angeles. She then moved to Yale to become Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology and subsequently to Oxford to take up her post as Regius Professor of Divinity and Canon at Christ Church. She is now Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has published widely on medieval thinkers and on philosophical theology. Her books include William Ockham (2 vols), Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God, and Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology.