The Metaphysics of the Incarnation

Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-928108-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 582 g

The period from Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus is one of the richest in the history of Christian theology. The Metaphysics of the Incarnation aims to provide a thorough examination of the doctrine in this era, making explicit its philosophical and theological foundations. Medieval theologians believed that there were good reasons for supposing that Christ's human nature was an individual. In the light of this, Part 1 discusses how the various thinkers held that an individual nature could be united to a divine person. Part 2 shows how one divine person could be incarnate without any other. Part 3 deals with questions of Christological predication, and Part 4 shows how an individual nature is to be distinguished from a person. The work begins with a full account of the metaphysics presupposed in the medieval accounts, and concludes with observations relating medieval accounts to modern Christology.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of philosophy (especially philosophy of religion), theology (especially Christology), and medieval history

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cross, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction. The philosophical problem: substance and nature

- I. Models for the hypostatic union

- 1: The historical and philosophical background

- 2: The concrete whole-concrete part model: pro et contra

- 3: The substance-accident model: (1) Franciscans from Bonaventure to William of Ware

- 4: The substance-accident model: (2) Giles of Rome and his opponents

- 5: The substance-accident model: (3) Duns Scotus

- Excursus 1: Consequences of the union

- II, Trinitarian issues

- 6: Some points of Christological consensus

- 7: The ratio terminandi: essence or personal property?

- III. The communication of properties

- 8: Christological predication

- 9: Relations and intrinsic properties

- 10: Christ's human activity: agnecy and predication

- Excursus 2: Counting persons and natures

- IV. Theories of subsistence

- 11: The historical background

- 12: Esse theories of subsistence

- 13: Relation theories of subsistence

- 14: Negation theories of subsistence: (1) the thirteenth century

- 15: Negation theories of subsistence: (2) Duns Scotus

- Conclusion: a programme for Christology?

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Cross is Tutorial Fellow in Theology, Oriel College, and University Lecturer in Theology, University of Oxford.