Moreschini A Christian in Toga

Boethius: Interpreter of Antiquity and Christian Theologian
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-647-54027-6
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band Band 003, 155 Seiten

Reihe: Beiträge zur Europäischen Religionsgeschichte (BERG)

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 theological issues, most notably the Christological debates of his time or the question of the Trinity, and examines Boethius’ work from the point of view of Latin Platonism, highlighting the aims of his poetry and his philosophical tenets.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moreschini, Claudio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover
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2;Title Page
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3;Copyright
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4;Table of Contents
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5;Body
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6;Foreword;8
7;1. Boethius’ great cultural project;10
7.1;1.1 Mathematics;13
7.1.1;1.1.1 Arithmetic;14
7.1.2;1.1.2 Music;19
7.2;1.2 Translations of Greek works on logic;21
7.3;1.3 The theological treatises;26
7.4;1.4. Boethius’ legacy : Cassiodorus;29
8;2. Philosophy and Theology in Boethius’ Opuscula Theologica;36
8.1;2.1 The De fide catholica;36
8.1.1;2.1.1 Authenticity;36
8.1.2;2.1.2 The doctrines;40
8.1.3;2.1.3 The purpose;41
8.2;2.2 The Contra Eutychen et Nestorium;43
8.2.1;2.2.1 The theological problem;43
8.2.2;2.2.2 Boethius’ solution;45
8.2.3;2.2.3 God and matter;46
8.2.4;2.2.4 God and action;48
8.2.5;2.2.5 God and being;49
8.2.6;2.2.6 The refutation of Nestorius and of Eutyches;51
8.2.7;2.2.7 Natura and persona;55
8.2.8;2.2.8 The human person;55
8.2.9;2.2.9 After Boethius: persona according to Deacon Rusticus;61
8.2.10;2.2.10 Persona in the Trinity;63
8.3;2.3 The opuscula on the Trinity;64
8.3.1;2.3.1 Utrum Pater;65
8.3.2;2.3.2 De sancta Trinitate;67
8.4;2.4 De hebdomadibus;72
8.4.1;2.4.1 Forma essendi;75
8.4.2;2.4.2 Participation in God;77
8.4.3;2.4.3 Participation in God according to Boethius;79
8.4.4;2.4.4 Participation and God’s simplicitas;81
8.4.5;2.4.5 The problems of participation;83
8.4.6;2.4.6 Boethius and Augustine;87
8.4.7;2.4.7 Conclusions;89
8.4.8;2.4.8 Some observations on the terms of ‘being’ ;89
9;3. The Consolatio Philosophiae;93
9.1;3.1 Was the Consolatio completed?;93
9.2;3.2 The literary genre;95
9.3;3.3 The prosimetron: poetry in the Consolatio;95
9.4;3.4 The prosimetron: the Consolatio as a satira;98
9.5;3.5 A satire as a consolation;101
9.6;3.6 Who is Philosophy?;102
9.7;3.7 The structure of the Consolatio;103
9.8;3.8 De remediis utriusque fortunae (Petrarch);104
9.9;3.9 Philosophy and Religion in the Consolatio;109
9.9.1;3.9.1 The Neo-Platonism of the Consolatio;109
9.9.2;3.9.2 The Consolatio and the tradition of Latin Neo-Platonism;118
9.9.3;3.9.3 The doctrine of the summum bonum;119
9.9.4;3.9.4 God is a monad;125
9.9.5;3.9.5 The cosmic soul;126
9.9.6;3.9.6 The simplicity of God;126
9.9.7;3.9.7 On ‘becoming God’;127
9.9.8;3.9.8 God, the supreme intellect;128
9.9.9;3.9.9 Providence and Fate;129
9.9.10;3.9.10 The astral body;131
10;4. Boethius’ Christianity;133
10.1;4.1 Bovo ofCorvey;134
10.2;4.2 The Anonymus Einsiedlensis;136
10.3;4.3 Adalboldus of Utrecht;138
10.4;4.4 Christian faith and philosophy;139
11;Bibliography;146
11.1;Selected Sources;146
11.2;Works Cited;147
12;Index nominum;154
13;Back Cover
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