| Gerard of Abbeville, Secular Master, on Knowledge, Wisdom and Contemplation Contributor(s): Metzger (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004342370 ISBN-13: 9789004342378 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $205.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: Latin Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Medieval - Philosophy | Epistemology - Philosophy | Religious |
| Series: Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters |
| Physical Information: 2.1" H x 6.5" W x 9.5" (2.91 lbs) 760 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Religious Orientation - Christian - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Gerard of Abbeville (d. 1272) was the foremost secular theologian at the University of Paris during the third quarter of the thirteenth century. Significantly, Gerard's corpus includes the most comprehensive treatment of the nature and extent of human knowledge from the generation before Henry of Ghent. Stephen M. Metzger's study presents Gerard's complete theory of human knowledge, which is a hierarchy extending from the knowledge acquired in faith, through scientific thought and culminating in the full vision of God by the blessed in patria. It is the fullest exposition of the life, works and thought of Gerard yet written and is augmented by the presentation for the first time of editions of several disputed questions and other texts. |