Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas

ISBN-13: 9780268012250 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 136 str.

David B. Burrell

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"This study of Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, and Thomas Aquinas on the structure and significance of language about God reminds us that such ecumenical dialogue was immensely productive in the Middle Ages, and the author's perspective suggests how richly rewarding the renewal of such conversations might be for current philosophy among Jews, Christians, and Muslims." --Bernard McGinn, Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor of Historical Theology and the History of Christianity, University of Chicago Divinity School

"Historians, philosophers, theologians, and those concerned with interreligious dialogue will all find this book important." --George Lindbeck, Pitkin Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology and Religious Studies, Yale University

In Knowing the Unknowable God, David Burrell traces the intellectual intermingling of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian traditions that made possible the medieval synthesis that served as the basis for Western theology. He shows how Aquinass study of the Muslim philosopher Ibn-Sina and the Jewish thinker Moses Maimonides affected the disciplined use of language when speaking of divinity and influenced his doctrine of God.