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Teaching Company
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p2007
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English
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Today we tend to separate questions of logic from questions of belief, philosophy from religion, reason from faith. But for 1,000 years during a pivotal era of Western thought, reason and faith went hand-in-hand in the search for answers to the most profound issues investigated by Christianity's most committed scholars. In 24 ambitious lectures, Professor Williams examines the great Christian philosophers from Augustine to Ockham, following their...
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Library of liberal arts volume 86
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English
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Written in prison before his brutal execution in AD 524, Boethius's "The Consolation of Philosophy" is a conversation between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' Philosophy, whose instruction restores him to health and brings him to enlightenment. Boethius was an eminent public figure who had risen to great political heights in the court of King Theodoric when he was implicated in conspiracy and condemned to death. Although a Christian, it was to...
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English
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Written in the 12th century in Arabic by a faithful Jewish man, "The Guide for the Perplexed" is a work that explores the contradiction a very intelligent mind clearly saw between the tradition in which he was raised to believe and the growing philosophy of Arabian and Western culture. In Maimonides' time, there was an emerging disparity between the Law and a new level of philosophical sophistication, which he attempts to bridge in this work, primarily...
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Publications in mediaeval studies volume 23/1-23/2
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Pub. Date
1986
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English
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Series
Études de philosophie médiévale volume 23
Publisher
J. Vrin
Pub. Date
1948
Language
Français
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Gifford lectures volume 1931-1932
Publisher
C. Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1936
Language
English
Description
All these lectures converge to this conclusion: that the Middle Ages produced, besides a Christian literature and a Christian art as everyone admits, this very Christian philosophy which is a matter of dispute. No one, of course, maintains that this mediaeval philosophy was created out of nothing, nor yet that all mediaeval philosophy was Christian -- just as no one maintains that mediaeval literature and art were created out of nothing or were wholly...
19) Medieval architecture, medieval learning: builders and masters in the age of Romanesque and Gothic
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©1992
Language
English
Description
The eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a thoroughgoing transformation of European culture, as new ways of thinking revitalized every aspect of human endeavor, from architecture and the visual arts to history, philosophy, theology, and even law. In this book Charles M. Radding and William W. Clark offer fresh perspectives on changes in architecture and learning at three moments in time. Unlike previous studies, including Erwin Panofsky's classic...
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